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Apr. 14th, 2004 08:39 pmCame home from work today, and my driveway was gone! Except for a strip of cement near the garage, it's all dirt. The city started doing street repair on Monday. I guess my innocent driveway got in the way.
Now I fear April showers. Rainfall means mudpit. Since they've torn up the street as well, there's no place to park except in the garage. One good rainfall and our cars are trapped.
....subject change.
The novel are started working on this winter is going slowly. I have to do tons of research which is taking forever because:
a) Internet research= Opera dicking around unless she really buckles down. When writing fan fiction, looking at porn and wrestling sites IS research. Not so with historical fiction.
b) Internal critic is having a field day. I'm trying something outside my comfort zone. I'm so busy flipping back and forth between really wanting to write this idea/thinking it's a waste of my precious writing time, that half my research time is devoted to me quadruple checking everything because I'm sure there's huge, laughable errors in my plot/idea.
c) Fan Fic made me lazy. I don't think fan fiction is any less hard to write, but it's waaaaaay too forgiving of an author's weaknesses. Can't write a decent transition? Just skip it and label the rest: Part B. Don't wanna put any research into something? Forget setting and details; pretty characters will fill out the story. Don't wanna innovate? Lucky you! Fan fic loves formula.
I've got enough writing weaknesses. Grammar will bury the parts of me that punctuation fails to obliterate. A more truthful phrasing of point C is: My laziness wasn't hassled by fan fic. Or... The crime isn't that fan fic lets me get away with murder, but that I commited murder in the first place.
...and another subject change.
Well, more like an offshoot. This journal is the dutiful ear doomed for all time to listen to the broken record of my writing ramblings.
I don't get writer's block. I refuse to. Right now, though, I have sort of an apathy. It's been forever since I've read anything moving. There's been a few -good- things. I enjoyed Lita's biography. I found a dynamite grammar guide. But, nothing moving. Some stories just move me to want to create, to inspire certain emotions, to try out new ways of saying things. I haven't found anything that has made me excited about stories.
Now I fear April showers. Rainfall means mudpit. Since they've torn up the street as well, there's no place to park except in the garage. One good rainfall and our cars are trapped.
....subject change.
The novel are started working on this winter is going slowly. I have to do tons of research which is taking forever because:
a) Internet research= Opera dicking around unless she really buckles down. When writing fan fiction, looking at porn and wrestling sites IS research. Not so with historical fiction.
b) Internal critic is having a field day. I'm trying something outside my comfort zone. I'm so busy flipping back and forth between really wanting to write this idea/thinking it's a waste of my precious writing time, that half my research time is devoted to me quadruple checking everything because I'm sure there's huge, laughable errors in my plot/idea.
c) Fan Fic made me lazy. I don't think fan fiction is any less hard to write, but it's waaaaaay too forgiving of an author's weaknesses. Can't write a decent transition? Just skip it and label the rest: Part B. Don't wanna put any research into something? Forget setting and details; pretty characters will fill out the story. Don't wanna innovate? Lucky you! Fan fic loves formula.
I've got enough writing weaknesses. Grammar will bury the parts of me that punctuation fails to obliterate. A more truthful phrasing of point C is: My laziness wasn't hassled by fan fic. Or... The crime isn't that fan fic lets me get away with murder, but that I commited murder in the first place.
...and another subject change.
Well, more like an offshoot. This journal is the dutiful ear doomed for all time to listen to the broken record of my writing ramblings.
I don't get writer's block. I refuse to. Right now, though, I have sort of an apathy. It's been forever since I've read anything moving. There's been a few -good- things. I enjoyed Lita's biography. I found a dynamite grammar guide. But, nothing moving. Some stories just move me to want to create, to inspire certain emotions, to try out new ways of saying things. I haven't found anything that has made me excited about stories.
