Plugging away...
It's time to really start getting disciplined. The holidays are over and the kids are back in school and I have been distracted long enough from writing that I need to just do it!
I have been doing a lot of research and purposefully not putting things on this board as I'm not sure how much I want to put out publically. Mostly philosophy and outline type of stuff that puts me into a great frame of mind because it's getting more organized. I have to rewrite an entire chapter (plan to do that tomorrow) because I had a conversation last for 25 pages! And that is just RIDICULOUS. With the new outline I can start fresh and just write what I need to have them say.
The way I write is to just let it flow. I know what my characters are like and I know what they need to share with each other. But in this case they just go on too many rabbit trails... which is natural and normal for any type of conversation that is real, but in a single chapter you can't just do that - can you? I don't know. I don't think so. So tomorrow I will rewrite it completely from a point where it went awry. I was going to try to edit it, but that was taking me so long to figure out what to cut out and still have them flow naturally from one topic to the next.
I have beend doing a few things to keep in the spirit of the book - like making videos of myself on myspace and other video spaces, both because I enjoy it and to get the feeling of what it must be like to be seen. That urge to see who is replying and what people think is pretty strong. I can understand how vloggers would get so excited to put up something more and more radical just to get attention. There was actually a 20/20 episode about the craze for fame that said people are more interested in being famous than anything.
I've also seen a few other things I'm including in my book that are actually happening already. The excessive and against their knowledge air brushing of actresses, the animation added to sports game (saw a comet like football today), people flocking to videos of deformed or abnormal looking people, I heard someone got a tail surgically attached! At this rate, I'm going to have to move my date up another 20 years and have it take place in 5 years!! *L*
Hope I can actually write it by then.
I have been doing a lot of research and purposefully not putting things on this board as I'm not sure how much I want to put out publically. Mostly philosophy and outline type of stuff that puts me into a great frame of mind because it's getting more organized. I have to rewrite an entire chapter (plan to do that tomorrow) because I had a conversation last for 25 pages! And that is just RIDICULOUS. With the new outline I can start fresh and just write what I need to have them say.
The way I write is to just let it flow. I know what my characters are like and I know what they need to share with each other. But in this case they just go on too many rabbit trails... which is natural and normal for any type of conversation that is real, but in a single chapter you can't just do that - can you? I don't know. I don't think so. So tomorrow I will rewrite it completely from a point where it went awry. I was going to try to edit it, but that was taking me so long to figure out what to cut out and still have them flow naturally from one topic to the next.
I have beend doing a few things to keep in the spirit of the book - like making videos of myself on myspace and other video spaces, both because I enjoy it and to get the feeling of what it must be like to be seen. That urge to see who is replying and what people think is pretty strong. I can understand how vloggers would get so excited to put up something more and more radical just to get attention. There was actually a 20/20 episode about the craze for fame that said people are more interested in being famous than anything.
I've also seen a few other things I'm including in my book that are actually happening already. The excessive and against their knowledge air brushing of actresses, the animation added to sports game (saw a comet like football today), people flocking to videos of deformed or abnormal looking people, I heard someone got a tail surgically attached! At this rate, I'm going to have to move my date up another 20 years and have it take place in 5 years!! *L*
Hope I can actually write it by then.
posted by Julia | 9:50 PM
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