All the "if only"s
Saw Beautiful Creatures with my bestie last night. It was good. Some fun scenes and visuals and some great acting by Emma Thompson and Viola Davis. The movie felt extremely long, though. At times it just inched along. Also, I don't remember the book very well, but it seems the filmmakers made some strange changes, the kind of thing where the original version would have done just fine and been just as interesting, but they changed it anyway.
I'm grateful that this week is over (even though it was only a four-day work week), and I'm looking forward to Day II of the Best Picture Showcase tomorrow.
That's going to leave only Sunday for me to really pull together some of my other goals for the week, which means I'm going to have to be really focused.
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Current Project: Under the Midday Moon
New Words: ~1,300
Current Total Word Count: ~2,500
Goal: Put together an workable draft of the novel that I would actually let someone read.
Accomplished: The first half of what I think will be Chapter Two
Random Rough Sentence(s): He glared up at me and pushed his glasses further up on his nose. I think I kind of fell for him right then, the green eyes, the black curly hair like a mop on his head, the turtle shell glasses, the way the corner of his mouth twitched in irritation. The way he even held his finger in between the pages of the book, as though I was just an uninteresting and temporary distraction. It was an instant crush of the heart, squeezing out if only, if only.
Notes: I've had to skip the first chapter problem (my inability to know how to begin) entirely and just jump to Chapter Two, which is an Adam chapter. It's interesting writing from a man's point of view, something that I haven't often done in fiction or poetry. The default for me is usually a woman's view, but as I was thinking about this novel, I realized that I wouldn't be doing justice to Adam's character if I didn't give him his own voice.
It's strange that though the novel started with just Claire's view point, which I've been thinking about for so long, hers is the one I'm most lost on. I need to finish off Adam's chapter and then go back to hers, but I'm not really sure where I'm at with her, and she's not either, which is really frustrating.
I'm grateful that this week is over (even though it was only a four-day work week), and I'm looking forward to Day II of the Best Picture Showcase tomorrow.
That's going to leave only Sunday for me to really pull together some of my other goals for the week, which means I'm going to have to be really focused.
* * *
Current Project: Under the Midday Moon
New Words: ~1,300
Current Total Word Count: ~2,500
Goal: Put together an workable draft of the novel that I would actually let someone read.
Accomplished: The first half of what I think will be Chapter Two
Random Rough Sentence(s): He glared up at me and pushed his glasses further up on his nose. I think I kind of fell for him right then, the green eyes, the black curly hair like a mop on his head, the turtle shell glasses, the way the corner of his mouth twitched in irritation. The way he even held his finger in between the pages of the book, as though I was just an uninteresting and temporary distraction. It was an instant crush of the heart, squeezing out if only, if only.
Notes: I've had to skip the first chapter problem (my inability to know how to begin) entirely and just jump to Chapter Two, which is an Adam chapter. It's interesting writing from a man's point of view, something that I haven't often done in fiction or poetry. The default for me is usually a woman's view, but as I was thinking about this novel, I realized that I wouldn't be doing justice to Adam's character if I didn't give him his own voice.
It's strange that though the novel started with just Claire's view point, which I've been thinking about for so long, hers is the one I'm most lost on. I need to finish off Adam's chapter and then go back to hers, but I'm not really sure where I'm at with her, and she's not either, which is really frustrating.