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I got my first electricity bill. The fees and taxes applied to it was double the price of my electricity usage. Go figure.
NaNoWriMo feels like it's right around the corner. I could really use mindless fun writing right about now, but there is one major problem: there are two novels I really, really want to write for it.
Firstly, I want to throw out my first attempt at Retry The Sci-fi and start from the beginning in November, because I see no way I'll get around to writing very far in it otherwise. Which is a shame because I think it has some potential.
Secondly, ever since last year, I've wanted to write something completely off the top of my head. No prior plans except a vague concept at most. Then I passed someone on my way to class yesterday and she looked like my main character (I didn't have a design in my head, I just knew it was her) and ever since then I can't get her out of my head. Which is bad, really, because I don't want to know much before November and, while I don't count character development as knowing the story ahead of time, I keep getting too far into Possible Story just by figuring out her personality. In either case, I really want to know this character more and, thus, I want to write her story.
So how do I choose? Hell if I know. In '07, I thought I knew for sure what I was writing, then seriously less than a week before November, I realized it wasn't right and Manic Fairytale was demanding to be written instead. I'm hoping for another epiphany of that sort, but I can't go around counting on it.
Speaking of being conflicted on which stories to write, in homework I have to choose between writing "instances" (super detailed-less right-to-the-point stories, kind of) about my cats or about my time in the dorm. I tried cats and it just isn't inspiring diddlysquat, but there's no guarantee the dorm stories will work any better. They're both autobiography, of a sort, and I just can't pin my voice down on those.
But, my teacher was against the dorm story, so I'm leaning towards writing that one.
NaNoWriMo feels like it's right around the corner. I could really use mindless fun writing right about now, but there is one major problem: there are two novels I really, really want to write for it.
Firstly, I want to throw out my first attempt at Retry The Sci-fi and start from the beginning in November, because I see no way I'll get around to writing very far in it otherwise. Which is a shame because I think it has some potential.
Secondly, ever since last year, I've wanted to write something completely off the top of my head. No prior plans except a vague concept at most. Then I passed someone on my way to class yesterday and she looked like my main character (I didn't have a design in my head, I just knew it was her) and ever since then I can't get her out of my head. Which is bad, really, because I don't want to know much before November and, while I don't count character development as knowing the story ahead of time, I keep getting too far into Possible Story just by figuring out her personality. In either case, I really want to know this character more and, thus, I want to write her story.
So how do I choose? Hell if I know. In '07, I thought I knew for sure what I was writing, then seriously less than a week before November, I realized it wasn't right and Manic Fairytale was demanding to be written instead. I'm hoping for another epiphany of that sort, but I can't go around counting on it.
Speaking of being conflicted on which stories to write, in homework I have to choose between writing "instances" (super detailed-less right-to-the-point stories, kind of) about my cats or about my time in the dorm. I tried cats and it just isn't inspiring diddlysquat, but there's no guarantee the dorm stories will work any better. They're both autobiography, of a sort, and I just can't pin my voice down on those.
But, my teacher was against the dorm story, so I'm leaning towards writing that one.