don't you mess around with me
Time today is ridiculously stretchy, in the sense that I feel like I don't have enough of it (OMG remixredux08 opens on Saturday!) and yet this afternoon feels like it has been ENDLESS, and there's still two hours to go before I can go home.
Checking my email obsessively to see if any more stories have come in (they haven't! wah!) isn't helping.
Part of it is that I am writing this unexpected pinch hit, and I love the original story, and thought I could do something interesting with it, but 1100 words in, I feel like I am not doing it any kind of justice, and that makes me sad. Like, I know how I want the story to feel, but I don't think I'm managing it. It feels very pedestrian to me right now. Meh.
And also, I can't think up a cool remix subtitle. I am not sure I am going to keep the original title, either. Sometimes I do, when it seems to fit, and I don't like anything I come up with any better - then I can use the remix subtitle to comment on the title, or to point out the way the remix comments on the original. But sometimes I do come up with a NEW! AWESOME! title that I totally love and must use. That hasn't happened in this case, though it still might! I don't know!
Also, I thought I had the shape of the story worked out in my head, but in the writing, now I am not so sure. I think I know what beats I have to hit, but getting there isn't going as smoothly as I planned.
Writing hard. I want to go home.
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Checking my email obsessively to see if any more stories have come in (they haven't! wah!) isn't helping.
Part of it is that I am writing this unexpected pinch hit, and I love the original story, and thought I could do something interesting with it, but 1100 words in, I feel like I am not doing it any kind of justice, and that makes me sad. Like, I know how I want the story to feel, but I don't think I'm managing it. It feels very pedestrian to me right now. Meh.
And also, I can't think up a cool remix subtitle. I am not sure I am going to keep the original title, either. Sometimes I do, when it seems to fit, and I don't like anything I come up with any better - then I can use the remix subtitle to comment on the title, or to point out the way the remix comments on the original. But sometimes I do come up with a NEW! AWESOME! title that I totally love and must use. That hasn't happened in this case, though it still might! I don't know!
Also, I thought I had the shape of the story worked out in my head, but in the writing, now I am not so sure. I think I know what beats I have to hit, but getting there isn't going as smoothly as I planned.
Writing hard. I want to go home.
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