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Sep. 2nd, 2007 03:56 pmI have defeated that nasty sentence. Sort of. It's clear, at least. I'll save the word choice fiddling/rhythm worries until I get into later drafts. IT IS NOT AN EARLY DRAFT CONCERN or so I'm told.
I have a writing class coming up next month that I'm super psyched over: Grounding Your Story in the Real World (or something close to that). The description mentioned learning techniques for expressing time, weather, etc. without resorting to clocks, windows, etc. Which I think will be valuable to me because I tend to avoid mentioning stuff like that in my fics, choosing barreness over cliche.
Duran Duran's cover of "911 is a Joke" cracks me up EVERY TIME.
Speaking of time, Cryme Tyme has been released. WWE may be lax on their drug policies, but hat-stealing is NOT TOLERATED. Crap in them if you have to, don't you dare steal them.
There's rumor-mongering that M. Hardy's staff infection last summer was a cover for a Wellness violation. Oh precious, next time pick the 'roids that don't have bloat and frizzy hair as a side effect.
Wrote a drabble this morning. A total sockdrawer thingie, but it was nice having a something create itself willingly. The first 3 lines came to me while I was peeing-- this post brought to you by the letter TMI-- and the rest while washing my hands. Yay. Good words for such quick, not-really thought on, writing. Connoisseur, conductor, unfazed. Sometimes my brain works how it's supposed to.
I'm going happily blame it on my summer reading festival. Even though the crap to good story ratio is Sturgeon-level, I'm getting reminded of so many good words and all the ways they can paired.
I wonder if that's one of fanfiction's troubles. A lot (not all, of course) of fanfic writers pretty much read only fanfic, and only get exposed to that vocabulary. Sorta creates an "in-house" collection of cliches. As an example, I see color+ness as a description of weather/nature (as in "the swirling whiteness" for falling snow) far more often in fanfic than I see it in traditional writing. I know for me once I read descriptions, those descriptions get filed away as either bad or good ways to describe things in my own writing. And as we've snarked before, fanfic readers aren't always the most discriminating readers, how many mediocre and bad descriptions are getting filed away as Okay To Use?
I have a writing class coming up next month that I'm super psyched over: Grounding Your Story in the Real World (or something close to that). The description mentioned learning techniques for expressing time, weather, etc. without resorting to clocks, windows, etc. Which I think will be valuable to me because I tend to avoid mentioning stuff like that in my fics, choosing barreness over cliche.
Duran Duran's cover of "911 is a Joke" cracks me up EVERY TIME.
Speaking of time, Cryme Tyme has been released. WWE may be lax on their drug policies, but hat-stealing is NOT TOLERATED. Crap in them if you have to, don't you dare steal them.
There's rumor-mongering that M. Hardy's staff infection last summer was a cover for a Wellness violation. Oh precious, next time pick the 'roids that don't have bloat and frizzy hair as a side effect.
Wrote a drabble this morning. A total sockdrawer thingie, but it was nice having a something create itself willingly. The first 3 lines came to me while I was peeing-- this post brought to you by the letter TMI-- and the rest while washing my hands. Yay. Good words for such quick, not-really thought on, writing. Connoisseur, conductor, unfazed. Sometimes my brain works how it's supposed to.
I'm going happily blame it on my summer reading festival. Even though the crap to good story ratio is Sturgeon-level, I'm getting reminded of so many good words and all the ways they can paired.
I wonder if that's one of fanfiction's troubles. A lot (not all, of course) of fanfic writers pretty much read only fanfic, and only get exposed to that vocabulary. Sorta creates an "in-house" collection of cliches. As an example, I see color+ness as a description of weather/nature (as in "the swirling whiteness" for falling snow) far more often in fanfic than I see it in traditional writing. I know for me once I read descriptions, those descriptions get filed away as either bad or good ways to describe things in my own writing. And as we've snarked before, fanfic readers aren't always the most discriminating readers, how many mediocre and bad descriptions are getting filed away as Okay To Use?
