Writing this summer
I have been working like a whore this summer, and not on schoolwork or at a job. I am finally completing The Carronade. I want to have it in publish-able format by the end of the summer so I can include it in my portfolio when I apply to grad school to learn to direct films. I spent the first couple of days just reading through all of my research material, from Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England to The History of Underclothes. It was only a few weeks ago that I finally managed to outline the entire thing. So yes--I now know the ending. And it will blow your mind.
I'm trying to get as much done as possible before I start summer school next Monday. I am going to be in school the entire summer, literally, and in addition to classes I'm going to have to write and film a short movie to include in my grad school portfolio. I was also planning on doing some sort of internship, but that is seeming more and more ridiculous. I have just finished the prologue and rewriting of Chapter 1. There are seven more to go. Granted, those chapters will have less changes than this one (it establishes a lot), but it is also the shortest chapter in the book. It is really awesome discovering how much better I have gotten since three years ago. While I do keep a sentence here or there that I wrote when I was 17, I am changing a good amount. Mostly I'm taking out unnecessary dialogue and adding more description. The biggest change, though, has probably been to Cora's character. She was written pretty much the same in the beginning as the end, and I want her to be a more dynamic character.
It is absolutely nuts how rusty one can get when it comes to writing. I'm really glad I started it up again, I can already feel myself getting more verbally articulate, and it took me a fraction of the time to write this entry as it usually does.
I'm trying to get as much done as possible before I start summer school next Monday. I am going to be in school the entire summer, literally, and in addition to classes I'm going to have to write and film a short movie to include in my grad school portfolio. I was also planning on doing some sort of internship, but that is seeming more and more ridiculous. I have just finished the prologue and rewriting of Chapter 1. There are seven more to go. Granted, those chapters will have less changes than this one (it establishes a lot), but it is also the shortest chapter in the book. It is really awesome discovering how much better I have gotten since three years ago. While I do keep a sentence here or there that I wrote when I was 17, I am changing a good amount. Mostly I'm taking out unnecessary dialogue and adding more description. The biggest change, though, has probably been to Cora's character. She was written pretty much the same in the beginning as the end, and I want her to be a more dynamic character.
It is absolutely nuts how rusty one can get when it comes to writing. I'm really glad I started it up again, I can already feel myself getting more verbally articulate, and it took me a fraction of the time to write this entry as it usually does.