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Post by Siana Blackwood on Feb 13, 2015 7:31:48 GMT
I keep logging onto the forum and hoping to find everyone else being all happy and talky and it keeps on not happening, so I guess at least one of those things isn't true (i.e. you're either not happy or not talky). I guess if it's the latter another new thread isn't going to help, but I can hope. So... How are you doing this month? How’s the writing going? Tell us some good news. Share your problems. Let’s talk to each other about what's going on. Got a grievance? Air it. Got good news? Celebrate it. Stevian progress reports: starting now. Go! (Questions borrowed from Terribleminds, because I was having trouble making sense on my own.)
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Post by MelCorbett on Feb 15, 2015 2:50:38 GMT
So, I took a midterm on Wednesday, that I think went well. I also neglected my students' essays until after the midterm and had to change the due date for the next draft because I didn't finish grading on time. Let's see, my husband had the flu last week, so I just got hit with it today. Writing wise, I finished the first draft of my Medusa in space short story I'm working on last Saturday and started re-writing/cutting it. I'm changing my Perseus character into a woman because it fits better with the story (Athena Corp buys poor girl-children and trains them to be assassins/mercenaries, so it made sense that the person that they sent to retrieve Medusa be a woman). And um... on Thursday morning when I had all kinds of time, instead of writing or grading or studying for my other class or working on a prospectus or anything else productive, I set up an affiliate sales page on my website. You know, "resources I use type" page. So, yeah. If anyone's looking to buy Scrivener or a Holly Lisle class, think of me . I have also started posting puppy pictures on my website so, here's my puppies brushing their teeth and studying for the aforementioned statistics midterm :-) Isn't my Minnie pretty?
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Feb 16, 2015 12:43:19 GMT
Dang, flu SUCKS. Hope you're both feeling better!
Also, love the idea of a female Perseus and Medusa adventure!
The second half of this post has been deleted because it sounds demented in daylight. Will edit once I get home from work.
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Post by MelCorbett on Feb 17, 2015 21:36:01 GMT
Sleep has helped a lot, but I'm totally all over the place and not grading & say studying/reading for school like I need to be. Instead, I've been around the block the writer's forums everywhere I can possibly be. And ignored the stack of essays to grade, skipped study session with my friend, and have been totally un productive. minus working on my Medusa story. Because, I has priorities.
What about everyone else? How is February going?
**also, isn't February a weird word? Why don't we say the first 'r'?**
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Feb 18, 2015 6:38:15 GMT
How are you doing this month?
February is going TERRIBLY for me.
Life suddenly got busy, I had to work late some days, and I was sick for a while. It all added up to disaster on the writing and forum fronts. I'm way behind on both. I've been pecking away a little every day, but not much progress overall. In terms of actually being able to complete the crap I'm supposed to complete, NOPE.
I did in fact accomplish the task of cleaning out half my desk, and also clearing off the outline which has been hanging up since NaNo, so there's that.
I lost five pounds...and gained back three. >_>
How’s the writing going?
It's officially panic time for SS-SFF-SS. I WILL complete this story in time to submit it by the end of the month, but it's going to be a crunch again. I still have time to do better than last year.
SSSS is still not abandoned, but I am having SO much trouble actually writing this thing. I might end up breaking what is probably a rule of writing carved in stone somewhere, and just outright SKIP the offending plot point that refuses to unfold.
Tell us some good news.
Something clicked a bit this month, though. If I think of plot development as a series of decisions the character makes, it's easier for me to come up with plausible scenes that don't immediately put me to sleep with their pointless randomness. Makes sense. The easiest things I ever wrote (not that writing IS easy) were the entries for those old, old boot camp/role play threads where the situation was collectively controlled by everyone, and my characters just had to decide how to react to whatever was happening when it was my turn, weighing several possible options.
Share your problems.
I love coming up with ideas, but when it comes time to write them, I get super anxious and everything falls apart? Every day I go to bed and cringe, knowing that while the word counts mount, that this doesn't actually bring me any closer to meeting my goals. I've just been flailing and failing these past couple of weeks.
SS-SFF-SS: What I've written so far is completely snoozeworthy. That oh-so-desirable interesting plot twist still eludes me. Basically, it sucks.
SSSS: It's a whole pile of self-contradictory nonsense, empty characters, random scene snippets that reveal backstory, and endless argument. It's like, I KNOW what kind of person my MC is and what he wants, but when it comes to writing him, everything he wanted evaporates and it's basically 'he almost dies. he doesn't die. something else tries to kill him. he kills it.' Part of the problem is that while I know some of his backstory, I don't want to reveal the important bit. Am I stifling my story by not revealing it, though, because there's nothing else I can reveal in its place, because I'm basically making this up as I go along, so there are huge blanks all over the place where there should have been existing story material to work with?
Dang. I might as well reveal it, because I think I've reached a point where the revelation can't actually make it any worse than it is already.
Hmmm. Reading over this it might seem like I'm in the Doom Room, but I'm not quite there quite yet. It's just the recurring tired talking. Maybe if I can make it home early enough each day, I might actually have a shot at staying sane. [/u]
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Post by MelCorbett on Feb 19, 2015 0:20:53 GMT
Only sounds like you're in the doom room for the SSSS otherwise, it's good. Right? I'm in the doom room for everything else, school, keeping up with grading (AKA work) preparing for quals. The only thing I'm not there for is writing. So, we balance out (I think the kitty is balanced).
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