Post by Laieanna on Oct 6, 2009 13:19:52 GMT -5
Sweet! I wanted to blog/bitch about my progress and didn't get around to setting one up. I was hoping that was something open for us to do on this site. By the way, what a nice set of people too.
So here it is the 6th day and though today's wordcount doesn't count yet, I'm trailing behind by about 2,230 words. Blech! I just threw that on the calculator and I don't like seeing the numbers. I'm behind almost as much as I wrote.
First I shall run through the excuses that don't count. I did well on Thursday. Friday I had practice then off to the bar so my hubby could drink and I could possibly get the best damn sandwich and potato salad I've ever had. *Sigh* It was packed and though I kept a time limit on our time there, I was very tired when I got home. Then Saturday spent...well, I don't know what I did with my time. I did take the dogs to the dog park and then we were out eating dinner. Home tired again. Sunday was time spent at the Artprize downtown. Have to get that in before it goes away in another week. Then it was off to another bar again for hubby to drink and for both of us to eat dinner. This time I was smart and brought my laptop with me. It's cute and small and very portable. Yay! It was odd writing at a bar though we were in a secluded booth. Eyes were all looking my way, probably wondering what I was doing. Not talking with my hubby was the weird part. He got his liquor though. Then there was a performance last night and I have class tonight. So none of it is good excuses but I'll lean on them for right now anyway.
So my progress...well, I don't hate my story. I'm still in love with the core of my story and characters but it's sucking sooooo bad right now. I'm doing first person to get a more personal feel on it and it's been very flat, lifeless, and boring. My character has no voice. I didn't realize what I had done until I was about 1500 words in. This keep writing and don't look back thing is so not my style. I edit as I go along or at least a day later. Maybe that comes from writing short stories and not novels. I’m afraid that the voice that I want to see on paper at the beginning of my novel will lose her strength if I wait a month before the editing process. On top of that, I feel odd starting the right voice right smack in the middle of where I’m at. I give myself not out, don’t I? This leads to little enthusiasm right now and a realization that I don’t have as many initial kinks worked out like I thought I did. I still need to work on the voice of my main character if I want this to work for me. Part of me wants to start all over but I know that will be harmful so the other part of me is trying to convince the entire me to keep going and worry about the small stuff later. I apparently live in the small stuff. Grrr. Hair pulling time.
That’s me in a long winded nutshell right now. I haven’t even started character interactions yet and that’s been a sad state. Maybe when I get that rolling, the world will be beautiful again. Time to get back to the work day stuff and come back to you guys later.
So here it is the 6th day and though today's wordcount doesn't count yet, I'm trailing behind by about 2,230 words. Blech! I just threw that on the calculator and I don't like seeing the numbers. I'm behind almost as much as I wrote.
First I shall run through the excuses that don't count. I did well on Thursday. Friday I had practice then off to the bar so my hubby could drink and I could possibly get the best damn sandwich and potato salad I've ever had. *Sigh* It was packed and though I kept a time limit on our time there, I was very tired when I got home. Then Saturday spent...well, I don't know what I did with my time. I did take the dogs to the dog park and then we were out eating dinner. Home tired again. Sunday was time spent at the Artprize downtown. Have to get that in before it goes away in another week. Then it was off to another bar again for hubby to drink and for both of us to eat dinner. This time I was smart and brought my laptop with me. It's cute and small and very portable. Yay! It was odd writing at a bar though we were in a secluded booth. Eyes were all looking my way, probably wondering what I was doing. Not talking with my hubby was the weird part. He got his liquor though. Then there was a performance last night and I have class tonight. So none of it is good excuses but I'll lean on them for right now anyway.
So my progress...well, I don't hate my story. I'm still in love with the core of my story and characters but it's sucking sooooo bad right now. I'm doing first person to get a more personal feel on it and it's been very flat, lifeless, and boring. My character has no voice. I didn't realize what I had done until I was about 1500 words in. This keep writing and don't look back thing is so not my style. I edit as I go along or at least a day later. Maybe that comes from writing short stories and not novels. I’m afraid that the voice that I want to see on paper at the beginning of my novel will lose her strength if I wait a month before the editing process. On top of that, I feel odd starting the right voice right smack in the middle of where I’m at. I give myself not out, don’t I? This leads to little enthusiasm right now and a realization that I don’t have as many initial kinks worked out like I thought I did. I still need to work on the voice of my main character if I want this to work for me. Part of me wants to start all over but I know that will be harmful so the other part of me is trying to convince the entire me to keep going and worry about the small stuff later. I apparently live in the small stuff. Grrr. Hair pulling time.
That’s me in a long winded nutshell right now. I haven’t even started character interactions yet and that’s been a sad state. Maybe when I get that rolling, the world will be beautiful again. Time to get back to the work day stuff and come back to you guys later.