HOW IS A RAVEN LIKE A WRITING DESK? and other Random Thoughts

[botticellichick]

A new year and brand new thoughts.  I've noticed that I go on LJ to read everyone else's entries, but very rarely post myself.  For a writer, I sure don't know how to start writing.  I've never been excellent at journals, so that may be why.

I can start a novel easy.  I can finish one too.  The middle part is harder.  This third novel is much

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[botticellichick]

Laura, I TOTALLY forgot to write in my post that when I first read Water (the very first time :), I was listening to Dido's second album, Life for Rent. It still reminds me of Water and I listen to it whenever I reread it. Water is my quintessential Dramione fic (Le swoon).

I am the same about the music. Reading my stories without my soundtracks just seems incomplete. It loses some of the emotions. I want to be the first author to sell soundtracks to their novels :).

I wouldn't get too excited about my newspaper. I live in a rural part of Maryland, so it's just the local publishing company (we do publish for like thirty different publications, however- all up and down the coast). No big names. I decided not to do journalism because I'm not into reporting. I am actually in accounting (snooze fest), but I have access to the editorial staff :). I really am hoping to get my novel out so that I can at least start the process. I am anticipating the rejections, but I can't get anywhere if I don't summit anything. Anywho, rambling again...

[cupcaked]

Rejections or not, it's still brilliant that you've pushed yourself that far. So many people fall at the first hurdle (otherwise known as writing more than one chapter....)! Definitely sell a soundtrack with your novel! Then I can buy that too! =D

Accounting - that must mean you're good with numbers?! I envy you for that. I'm terrible with them. Weirdly I got an A in Maths when I last took an exam in it (about 6 years ago!)...and now I've forgotten all of it. To the extent where I'm getting myself a maths tutor over summer because I have to take verbal and numeracy tests to get onto graduate programmes.

[botticellichick]

Thank you. It's funny that I don't really have trouble writing the novels, it's having the self-confidence to allow others to read them that I have problems with. I will get over it. My dreams are too big to let my ego get in the way for too long.

About the math...it was my least favorite subject and I never went past Algebra II (in the States that all you have to get through to graduate high school). In college I almost failed the basic course. What I can't understand is, I actually understand and enjoy working in accounting. I think it makes way more sense than crap like trig or calculus. Beats me...