Lyric Wheels, Halloween, NaNoWriMo
Damn and blast.
I'm really stuck on the Lyric Wheel story for Halloween. I had several ideas, all of which I tried writing about and none of which got more than halfway down the page. And one idea that would have been good, but the ME writers claimed it for the show this Wednesday, and I'm afraid I'd be accused of copying.
Part of the problem is that I grew up without Halloween. My parents loathed it; they never once regarded it as a harmless holiday on which to dress up. They saw it as a very dangerous day on the calendar, and one to be avoided.
Moreover, my parents would sooner have had me in rags on the street than to have had me trick-or-treating--or, in their words, "begging for candy." Their feeling was that if parents wanted their brats to have candy, those parents could jolly well buy the candy themselves and not expect the neighbors to purchase it.
I trick-or-treated for UNICEF twice--once when I was six and dressed as a fairy princess, and once as a skeleton when I was seven. I never went out again after that. My parents said that eight was too old for trick or treat.
So I don't really have the ideal mentality to think of Halloween as fun. And Buffy and Angel both have Halloween-ish elements anyway, what with the witches and ghosts and vampires and demons. How do you make something like that MORE Halloween-ish, I'd like to know?
I feel like I'm running around in circles. Very not fun.
And I'm worried about the NaNoWriMo thing, too. I mean, I usually plan out characters for months in advance. I really get to know them before I start writing about them. There's no time for that this time, and I'm scared. Add in the fact that I'm not sure what story I'll be telling. I have two ideas, and it has to be one or the other. The two don't mesh.
This is annoying.
I'm really stuck on the Lyric Wheel story for Halloween. I had several ideas, all of which I tried writing about and none of which got more than halfway down the page. And one idea that would have been good, but the ME writers claimed it for the show this Wednesday, and I'm afraid I'd be accused of copying.
Part of the problem is that I grew up without Halloween. My parents loathed it; they never once regarded it as a harmless holiday on which to dress up. They saw it as a very dangerous day on the calendar, and one to be avoided.
Moreover, my parents would sooner have had me in rags on the street than to have had me trick-or-treating--or, in their words, "begging for candy." Their feeling was that if parents wanted their brats to have candy, those parents could jolly well buy the candy themselves and not expect the neighbors to purchase it.
I trick-or-treated for UNICEF twice--once when I was six and dressed as a fairy princess, and once as a skeleton when I was seven. I never went out again after that. My parents said that eight was too old for trick or treat.
So I don't really have the ideal mentality to think of Halloween as fun. And Buffy and Angel both have Halloween-ish elements anyway, what with the witches and ghosts and vampires and demons. How do you make something like that MORE Halloween-ish, I'd like to know?
I feel like I'm running around in circles. Very not fun.
And I'm worried about the NaNoWriMo thing, too. I mean, I usually plan out characters for months in advance. I really get to know them before I start writing about them. There's no time for that this time, and I'm scared. Add in the fact that I'm not sure what story I'll be telling. I have two ideas, and it has to be one or the other. The two don't mesh.
This is annoying.