Home is where the Creative Heart is
Hiiii everyone!
A combination of things have started to convince me that I should re-write my original book (the one before NaNoWriMo). NaNo certainly is one of these influences... but as I lie here in bed at home, surrounded by the youthful creative surroundings that are here from the day of writing the originals - yes, my room here hasn't changed much! - I can't help but feel what I am currently writing is too... serious?
Certainly I have retained most of the character traits I loved to write back then... but there isn't enough. It seems all good but not in comparison with its original. Sure they were iiiiiiiincredibly flawed... but they have a completely innocent, unhindered and unquestionable passion running through them. I didn't write them because I needed to, or for any reason other than simply wanting to. No plan, no structure, no debate. Just manic bashing of keys and ripping into Games Workshop lore.
Plus I just watched Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Extended version... and a similar feeling came over me. My book already started to rewrite itself as I watched.
So if I can't find them here... I will go back to Dundee and put on my walls my original hand-painted book covers. I can see photocopies here now, how silly yet meticulous they are... a bit like the books themselves.
I'll feel a bit bad for ditching about 33,000 words of book... but I suspect it will be for the better. Perhaps I will try and keep bits I like... but wouldn't count on it. Perhaps I was being too clever with it? A little like a film maker trying too hard to adapt something they fanboy about yet miss the point entirely?
I am quite happy with my NaNo book, structurally anyway. It needs neatening up certainly but the idea itself is pretty sound. Mum wants to read it /swt. So do most people :P If you want to read a first draft.... prod me. Otherwise you can wait until the day I go through an edit!
I feel like I want to take a bunch of stuff back with me... there's a whole load of miniatures that are direct influences on my old characters. Don't think the original manuscripts will help so much... they would just make my eyes hurt!
Through all of this I think of my dissertation... so... so very much!
(incidentally... it is 1.41am on Friday... its just my Eee can't receive the wireless through these thick stone Georgian walls! =s)
Incidentally, my Eeeee's messenger is on the blink =/ no sure why yet!
A combination of things have started to convince me that I should re-write my original book (the one before NaNoWriMo). NaNo certainly is one of these influences... but as I lie here in bed at home, surrounded by the youthful creative surroundings that are here from the day of writing the originals - yes, my room here hasn't changed much! - I can't help but feel what I am currently writing is too... serious?
Certainly I have retained most of the character traits I loved to write back then... but there isn't enough. It seems all good but not in comparison with its original. Sure they were iiiiiiiincredibly flawed... but they have a completely innocent, unhindered and unquestionable passion running through them. I didn't write them because I needed to, or for any reason other than simply wanting to. No plan, no structure, no debate. Just manic bashing of keys and ripping into Games Workshop lore.
Plus I just watched Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Extended version... and a similar feeling came over me. My book already started to rewrite itself as I watched.
So if I can't find them here... I will go back to Dundee and put on my walls my original hand-painted book covers. I can see photocopies here now, how silly yet meticulous they are... a bit like the books themselves.
I'll feel a bit bad for ditching about 33,000 words of book... but I suspect it will be for the better. Perhaps I will try and keep bits I like... but wouldn't count on it. Perhaps I was being too clever with it? A little like a film maker trying too hard to adapt something they fanboy about yet miss the point entirely?
I am quite happy with my NaNo book, structurally anyway. It needs neatening up certainly but the idea itself is pretty sound. Mum wants to read it /swt. So do most people :P If you want to read a first draft.... prod me. Otherwise you can wait until the day I go through an edit!
I feel like I want to take a bunch of stuff back with me... there's a whole load of miniatures that are direct influences on my old characters. Don't think the original manuscripts will help so much... they would just make my eyes hurt!
Through all of this I think of my dissertation... so... so very much!
(incidentally... it is 1.41am on Friday... its just my Eee can't receive the wireless through these thick stone Georgian walls! =s)
Incidentally, my Eeeee's messenger is on the blink =/ no sure why yet!