Interesting Comparisons
One of my shorts up at DII is getting some feedback that is very different than the earlier feedback, and one of the biggest differences in the critters is their ages. Previous critters have all been around my age or older and picked up certain nuances of the piece. They seemed to understand why I downplayed the things I did and picked up on certain things about the character that the younger critters haven't. And there seems to be less...I'm not sure understanding is the right word, tolerance? Doesn't seem right either. There's just times when breaking the established rules/guidelines work to create something specific in a story, but the younger critters haven't seemed to pick that up yet. This is not a bad thing, just interesting to me. It would be interesting to watch the growth and changes over just the next 5 - 10 years.
And it makes me wonder about myself at that age. Not that I was writing much then...when I was in high school, some idiot had convinced me that there wasn't much hope for me, so I pretty much stopped writing for a few years except for emotional poetry outbursts that sucked. (And yes, shade53, they REALLY DID suck.) I didn't pick my pen back up until I was in my 30s.
I never really thought much about it before, but I guess there ARE a lot of things that only time and experience can teach us. It makes perfect sense, yes, but I think we've all been young enough to have been insulted by being told that as well. This is not intended as an insult; it's just a realization on my part. Something I haven't really thought about before.
Along the same lines, I'm also realizing how out of step most of my life experiences are from what other people have experienced. The story in question explores the mental condition of its main character. I have been uncomfortable with it for a long time because of this--my own mother is a paranoid-schizophrenic. Having been exposed to the delusions of someone in that condition, I know how far they can go to avoid reality (not necessarily deliberately, but it does avoid reality). That experience has gone into this story, and I think makes it a little beyond the understanding of anyone who has never seen it.
Hell, it was beyond my understanding for years and years and I lived it. :P
So, yesterday I got 3 or 4 pages from the end of A.C. ch8 on that revision...then I got lazy. Or I just let the malaise take over and gave up. I don't know. I spent time with the family and then alone with the husband, and then pretty much just chilled for the evening. I also read some more of Copyediting & Proofreading For Dummies. Sad to say, but I'm learning more from this book than I did from either the internship or the 4 months at FP.
Today I plan to get that done and typed/printed, work on the 2 booklog entries I need to do, work on Phoenix (Sunday seems to be Phoenix day, at the moment), and maybe get at least 1 of my 2 crits for the week up. We'll see how far I get on all that, but at least I actually feel ready and motivated to get back to my writing.
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And it makes me wonder about myself at that age. Not that I was writing much then...when I was in high school, some idiot had convinced me that there wasn't much hope for me, so I pretty much stopped writing for a few years except for emotional poetry outbursts that sucked. (And yes, shade53, they REALLY DID suck.) I didn't pick my pen back up until I was in my 30s.
I never really thought much about it before, but I guess there ARE a lot of things that only time and experience can teach us. It makes perfect sense, yes, but I think we've all been young enough to have been insulted by being told that as well. This is not intended as an insult; it's just a realization on my part. Something I haven't really thought about before.
Along the same lines, I'm also realizing how out of step most of my life experiences are from what other people have experienced. The story in question explores the mental condition of its main character. I have been uncomfortable with it for a long time because of this--my own mother is a paranoid-schizophrenic. Having been exposed to the delusions of someone in that condition, I know how far they can go to avoid reality (not necessarily deliberately, but it does avoid reality). That experience has gone into this story, and I think makes it a little beyond the understanding of anyone who has never seen it.
Hell, it was beyond my understanding for years and years and I lived it. :P
So, yesterday I got 3 or 4 pages from the end of A.C. ch8 on that revision...then I got lazy. Or I just let the malaise take over and gave up. I don't know. I spent time with the family and then alone with the husband, and then pretty much just chilled for the evening. I also read some more of Copyediting & Proofreading For Dummies. Sad to say, but I'm learning more from this book than I did from either the internship or the 4 months at FP.
Today I plan to get that done and typed/printed, work on the 2 booklog entries I need to do, work on Phoenix (Sunday seems to be Phoenix day, at the moment), and maybe get at least 1 of my 2 crits for the week up. We'll see how far I get on all that, but at least I actually feel ready and motivated to get back to my writing.
~~~
most recent
whysper finding time
journey Still Busy :: lesson Outlining :: meta Learning From Harry Potter
booklog Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows