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"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
I'm dead in the water as well...in fact, make that dead and buried. But! There is hope! For now that I am, to all intents and purposes, a free agent, I feel the slight beginnings of literary madness stalking me once again! I've had the impulse to write niggling at the back of my mind for the past few days and I have a helluvalot of ideas but so far nothing to show for them except two or three solid plots that I've been working on mentally for the past six (?) years. Most of these stories have the common elements of romance and betrayal, some are fantasy some are historical. The fantasy one is one that has been pestering me for a while...I keep seeing parts of it- characters, places, etc - in the books I'm reading. Makes it difficult to concentrate lol. My goal for the holidays is to write out a semi-permanent storyline (it keeps shifting on me, damn thing) and start doing chapter-mapping. Characters have to come as the story comes for me though coz I have found that otherwise the plot drives the characters, instead of the other way around. Besides, the damn chars (though formed in clay, so to speak, at the start) always manage to surprise me anyway. But I'm rambling. I'm off to start story-mapping. Toodles!
Term papers...Oh I love those; end sarcasm. I have not done much lately except stare outside and wishing winter would be over with. *grumbles* I've done some reading and watching a lot of movies. And oh ya, did I mention I'm waiting for winter to end?
For writing, after much thought I think I'm going to take one of my pieces and tell the story several years earlier. Some feedback I received was.. "what? That's it? I barely got to know the character." So that being said, I'm going to continue the story, in hopes it will finally cement the main character.
Much, much work to do to prepare for this piece when I'm ready. A ton of researching(again). It will be fun, I look forward to it, once I figure out a direction and a basic plot. Then I'm golden.
211 pages worth of a NaNoWriMo novel that I'm currently adding lots to.
And then there's Hourglass...*sigh* which I would love to work on but I don't have that much time. Today starts Christmas break though, so maybe I'll do something with it.
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So that being said, I'm going to continue the story, in hopes it will finally cement the main character.
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