Assorted life and writing
Aargh... why is my LJing being so poor at the moment...?
I'd like to say it's because I've been writing loads, but that would be a lie. I've not 'dried up'; as gruesome a thought as that might be, in many respects. I'm still getting ideas, and writing ideas down, and I suppose in one respect I haven't been writing so much because I've been planning... the couple of ideas I currently have for longer pieces, as in novel and novel trilogy length pieces, continue to stew, and grow more complex, more detailed, which they need to be before I begin on them.
I don't think that's a cop out, I'm usually quite good at identifying when I'm just finding an excuse. And that's not. I should have been writing more anyway, but that's part of the reason.
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Speaking of which there's a new Hidden Track up from me:
Succubi
[micro fiction: contemporary occult]
and of course one from umbriel if yu skip back one entry. Go. Now. Read. *^_~*
Mine's something that I've had in mind for a while and was actually thinking of writing as a longer piece, but with the other things I have in mind I know it would never have made it, and I'm actually pretty pleased with the way it's turned out in this format.
We're drawing to a close on the fourth album now, one more track to go from each of us. It's been a bit of a disparate album this time round (I think if we were to reproduce it in some form I would change the order of the tracks, and in some cases probably break the me/ Dee alternation) but I think it also shows our growth as writers, there's still some experimentation with the form but at the same time, more control.
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Uni has begun again. My second year started this week and we're looking at performance this term, and specifically writing for performance.
I've opted out of the poetry modules, for many reasons, partly time, partly because while I feel that the poetry in the first year did help me develop as a writer poetry is not where I'm headed, and in dropping the poetry it means I have to hand in a larger body of work for the prose in order to garner the same number of points (or whatever they're called) to make up my degree, and tbh, I'd rather be putting the effort and time into my prose writing.
And when I say time, I mean more time for the prose work and my own writing - which needs my attention.
Having said that, this term isn't exactly prose anyway... apparently it's more 'writing for performance', which I'm assuming is script writing, but I find that out today. But equally, if I want to ever get into writing graphic novels/ comics (not to mention improving dialogue in non-illustrated prose anyway) then script-writing is an important skill, and anyone who knows me well at all knows I would love to get into comics writing one day. Not to the exclusion of novel/ short story writing, but one day I want to see my name on the cover of a DC or Marvel title, Vertigo would be cool... *^_^*
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Oh, in case you were worried I'd become any less narcissistic...
And as if we needed any more proof on the way the internet runs, on what makes those little digital cogs turn... me in the nude has been viewed almost twice as many times as any other photo I've posted in just 24 hours. In fact, right now, it's exactly double - 196 views: 98 views (previous most viewed - picture of a mushroom)
As ever, it's linked, click through for the flickr page.
And it's actually because I wanted to look at black and white photography, and because I want to photograph people, but I don't really know anyone else at the moment where the situation would be entirely comfortable for both of us. Plus, I'm quite happy experimenting and learning with me, and then I can move onto other people when I'm more confident in what I can do.
I'd like to say it's because I've been writing loads, but that would be a lie. I've not 'dried up'; as gruesome a thought as that might be, in many respects. I'm still getting ideas, and writing ideas down, and I suppose in one respect I haven't been writing so much because I've been planning... the couple of ideas I currently have for longer pieces, as in novel and novel trilogy length pieces, continue to stew, and grow more complex, more detailed, which they need to be before I begin on them.
I don't think that's a cop out, I'm usually quite good at identifying when I'm just finding an excuse. And that's not. I should have been writing more anyway, but that's part of the reason.
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Speaking of which there's a new Hidden Track up from me:
Succubi
[micro fiction: contemporary occult]
and of course one from umbriel if yu skip back one entry. Go. Now. Read. *^_~*
Mine's something that I've had in mind for a while and was actually thinking of writing as a longer piece, but with the other things I have in mind I know it would never have made it, and I'm actually pretty pleased with the way it's turned out in this format.
We're drawing to a close on the fourth album now, one more track to go from each of us. It's been a bit of a disparate album this time round (I think if we were to reproduce it in some form I would change the order of the tracks, and in some cases probably break the me/ Dee alternation) but I think it also shows our growth as writers, there's still some experimentation with the form but at the same time, more control.
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Uni has begun again. My second year started this week and we're looking at performance this term, and specifically writing for performance.
I've opted out of the poetry modules, for many reasons, partly time, partly because while I feel that the poetry in the first year did help me develop as a writer poetry is not where I'm headed, and in dropping the poetry it means I have to hand in a larger body of work for the prose in order to garner the same number of points (or whatever they're called) to make up my degree, and tbh, I'd rather be putting the effort and time into my prose writing.
And when I say time, I mean more time for the prose work and my own writing - which needs my attention.
Having said that, this term isn't exactly prose anyway... apparently it's more 'writing for performance', which I'm assuming is script writing, but I find that out today. But equally, if I want to ever get into writing graphic novels/ comics (not to mention improving dialogue in non-illustrated prose anyway) then script-writing is an important skill, and anyone who knows me well at all knows I would love to get into comics writing one day. Not to the exclusion of novel/ short story writing, but one day I want to see my name on the cover of a DC or Marvel title, Vertigo would be cool... *^_^*
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Oh, in case you were worried I'd become any less narcissistic...
And as if we needed any more proof on the way the internet runs, on what makes those little digital cogs turn... me in the nude has been viewed almost twice as many times as any other photo I've posted in just 24 hours. In fact, right now, it's exactly double - 196 views: 98 views (previous most viewed - picture of a mushroom)
As ever, it's linked, click through for the flickr page.
And it's actually because I wanted to look at black and white photography, and because I want to photograph people, but I don't really know anyone else at the moment where the situation would be entirely comfortable for both of us. Plus, I'm quite happy experimenting and learning with me, and then I can move onto other people when I'm more confident in what I can do.