More on Writing
I average about a thousand words in an hour when I'm feeling creative. My NaNoWriMo story may end up taking fifty or sixty days to finish rather than thirty, but I can tell you this: Tangled will get finished, unlike... every other damn thing I've ever written. Tangled is different. I already like Leah better than Larani, because unfortunately when you start writing a character at the age of 14 she becomes a Mary Sue. As an adult, and perhaps especially as an adult who works with teenagers, I'm able to create a realistically flawed (I think) teenage girl, figure out the worst things that can happen to her, and let them happen. Poor girl.
- For procrastination that is sort of related to your story: use MorphThing to create pictures of your characters. Does your male MC look like a cross between Jude Law and Joaquin Phoenix? You can see what that would actually look like by morphing their faces together.
- Today's LJ Writers' Block topic is extraordinary talents. Plot bunnies abound within.
- Author Justine Larbalestier is giving NaNo tips on her blog all month. Here's her older reader request post on how to get unstuck. One she doesn't suggest, but which usually works for me: taking a bath/shower. I may be an air sign, but my muse is clearly aquatic. Since a trip to the ocean is out of the question, the lake is miles away, and I can't be guaranteed a rainy day, the shower does the trick of giving me just enough running water to put random, yet genius, plot ideas into my head. Note to self: may need swimming pool if writing becomes an actual career rather than hobby. Yeats' muse must have been similar to mine-- "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," according to my poetry professor in college, was spurred by a fountain he saw in a shop window.
- I'm sure you're all using the NaNo boards as sources of both inspiration and procrastination. I've used the communal wisdom found therein to determine how Charity and Gavin spot Leah for what she is and to interior-decorate the Parthenon Club. It's been lovely connecting with other writers who consider YA Urban Fantasy their genre and to find others who are dipping their toes and pens into the pool of Greek mythos. My favorite boards are Character and Plot Realism (for both receiving help and procrastinating from my own writing by helping others) and Fantasy. The craziest hidden gem I've found on the boards, however, has got to be the Traveling Shovel of Death.
Oh, goodness, The Wizard of Oz is on TBS right now. I'm done for.
- For procrastination that is sort of related to your story: use MorphThing to create pictures of your characters. Does your male MC look like a cross between Jude Law and Joaquin Phoenix? You can see what that would actually look like by morphing their faces together.
- Today's LJ Writers' Block topic is extraordinary talents. Plot bunnies abound within.
- Author Justine Larbalestier is giving NaNo tips on her blog all month. Here's her older reader request post on how to get unstuck. One she doesn't suggest, but which usually works for me: taking a bath/shower. I may be an air sign, but my muse is clearly aquatic. Since a trip to the ocean is out of the question, the lake is miles away, and I can't be guaranteed a rainy day, the shower does the trick of giving me just enough running water to put random, yet genius, plot ideas into my head. Note to self: may need swimming pool if writing becomes an actual career rather than hobby. Yeats' muse must have been similar to mine-- "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," according to my poetry professor in college, was spurred by a fountain he saw in a shop window.
- I'm sure you're all using the NaNo boards as sources of both inspiration and procrastination. I've used the communal wisdom found therein to determine how Charity and Gavin spot Leah for what she is and to interior-decorate the Parthenon Club. It's been lovely connecting with other writers who consider YA Urban Fantasy their genre and to find others who are dipping their toes and pens into the pool of Greek mythos. My favorite boards are Character and Plot Realism (for both receiving help and procrastinating from my own writing by helping others) and Fantasy. The craziest hidden gem I've found on the boards, however, has got to be the Traveling Shovel of Death.
Oh, goodness, The Wizard of Oz is on TBS right now. I'm done for.