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Mar. 27th, 2011 08:24 pmFirst, a grammar question. Is "Hell" always capitalized? Like when it's being used a generic swear word (What the Hell?) rather than a specific place (Go to Hell!)?
Second, very good run of writing today. I'm starting to think of my stories as whole pieces much earlier in the process than I used to. Writing, I think, will always be word-by-slow-coming-word for me. I'm getting better at not fighting that. However, with this latest story, tracks of it have come to me in paragraphs. Not the actual text, unfortunately. The shape of the story? Maybe? It's still too new for me to process.
In the first act, I wanted a brief pause, just before Big News is dropped, where a character ruminates on a relationship he's in, and I knew I wanted it to be brief. Very brief. A paragraph tops. It's a short story and real estate is expensive. Knowing that ahead of time made it so easy to decide how to state the ruminations-- again, not the exact words-- but I knew I wanted something vivid and powerful. It only gets a paragraph, so it has to be a memorable paragraph. I fret about over the top writing, so it was nice going in knowing that I *wanted* orchestral writing there, that it served a purpose.
Second, very good run of writing today. I'm starting to think of my stories as whole pieces much earlier in the process than I used to. Writing, I think, will always be word-by-slow-coming-word for me. I'm getting better at not fighting that. However, with this latest story, tracks of it have come to me in paragraphs. Not the actual text, unfortunately. The shape of the story? Maybe? It's still too new for me to process.
In the first act, I wanted a brief pause, just before Big News is dropped, where a character ruminates on a relationship he's in, and I knew I wanted it to be brief. Very brief. A paragraph tops. It's a short story and real estate is expensive. Knowing that ahead of time made it so easy to decide how to state the ruminations-- again, not the exact words-- but I knew I wanted something vivid and powerful. It only gets a paragraph, so it has to be a memorable paragraph. I fret about over the top writing, so it was nice going in knowing that I *wanted* orchestral writing there, that it served a purpose.
