I don't know if this works as an entire outline (I mean, I've left off the context etc, this is very much the bullet points) for Act One of Tourist's Guide but it's a better bare bones than I had:

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Work week finally over. Therapist drilling holes in my head. Successfully managed at 5am this morning to induce an ecstatic seizure (deliberately), which is good to know and good that I was right about the conditions (it's a pretty specific kind of photosensitivity that's not likely to occur very often so I don't have to worry about it) but WHY DID ( Read more... )

Version 1: I'M FUCKING AWFUL AND NOTHING I DO IS ANY GOOD AND I'M ALWAYS GOING TO BE AWFUL IN EVERY POSSIBLE RESPECT AND EVERYONE'S GOING TO LEAVE ME AND I HATE ALL THE THINGS BUT AT LEAST CIVILISATION WILL PROBABLY COLLAPSE AND TAKE ME DOWN WITH IT ( Read more... )

Editing takes place in red, yellow, green, and blue at this stage. Red is "cut this immediately", yellow is "get someone else to help you with the decision about whether or not to keep this bit", green is "keep this but rephrase it", and blue is "fact check ( Read more... )

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well i have reached the stage in the story where i need validation in order to continue, which is a little like saying i've reached the stage in life where i've accepted that i'm a sack of pus. did i not just waffle about learning to not rely on validation from external sources and write only to please myself? ah yes, but that was for the future. ( Read more... )

Recent activities have seen a certain backsliding in maturity: watched the entire first disk of my Christmas present from Lindsay, which was the Horrible Histories box set (aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh), have accidentally fallen into rereading the few Asterix books I have and also making Jess read them (I am an expert at looking past the GINORMOUS RACISM ( Read more... )

Oof. Well, if I wanted to start feeling bad again about not writing instead of the comfortable place I was at regarding "I am having a break from everything for December because it's not a good month for me and I just puked out a book, I will start research and plotting for the next one in January", today has provided me with all the elements: ( Read more... )

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Embroidery: I managed to write something which doesn't contain the word "cunt"I am still angry from that introductory session which is not a great feeling given that it was YESTERDAY and I have successfully puked out 8000+ words today in an attempt to give myself a little more lee-way tomorrow morning (which I think I am going to need) ( Read more... )