Sleep? What Is This "Sleep?"
There is very little more boring than listening to someone talk about their writing process. I will let it suffice to say that I am still chugging along, several days ahead of where I need to be, despite regular cat interventions and rancid dog farts.
The saddest thing about this novel is that I will not be able to read excerpts of it at the writers' meetings I attend. It's porn, and it's bad porn at that. I don't think I've missed a fantasy cliché, yet. Right down to the talking animal sidekick. It's like some horrible animated movie where the beleaguered heroine flees her home, has lots of zany adventures, and breaks into sex along the way like Disney Princesses break into song. If you think for even a minute I'm going to let the group see it, you're smoking something finer than what I got.
So for lack of something more articulate and intelligent (I seem to be spending all my mental money in one place these days) I ask some questions and leave the floor to you:
For those of you trying the novel-in-a-month thing, what is your primary motivation to try something so stupid and crazy? How do you feel the novel-in-a-month theory compares to other highly compressed things, like bonsai kittens and squeez cheez? Does it make you feel good? Bad? Scared? Why are we doing this, anyway? What is your favorite plot point or irrelevant yet fun detail so far? Do you think you'll make it?
Talk among yourselves.
10,053 / 50,000
(20.1%)
The saddest thing about this novel is that I will not be able to read excerpts of it at the writers' meetings I attend. It's porn, and it's bad porn at that. I don't think I've missed a fantasy cliché, yet. Right down to the talking animal sidekick. It's like some horrible animated movie where the beleaguered heroine flees her home, has lots of zany adventures, and breaks into sex along the way like Disney Princesses break into song. If you think for even a minute I'm going to let the group see it, you're smoking something finer than what I got.
So for lack of something more articulate and intelligent (I seem to be spending all my mental money in one place these days) I ask some questions and leave the floor to you:
For those of you trying the novel-in-a-month thing, what is your primary motivation to try something so stupid and crazy? How do you feel the novel-in-a-month theory compares to other highly compressed things, like bonsai kittens and squeez cheez? Does it make you feel good? Bad? Scared? Why are we doing this, anyway? What is your favorite plot point or irrelevant yet fun detail so far? Do you think you'll make it?
Talk among yourselves.
10,053 / 50,000
(20.1%)