As the road curves and bends
After this entry, I will have 799 tags.
That is a problem. I honestly do not think about more than twenty topics in one day. There has to be some sort of work done here. I just keep repeating tags, like "Movie, "Movies," "Film" and "Films." But I'm trying to make some sort of standards.
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I'm working on a story (Rent!fic, admittedly) and it's going along slowly, but well. I like it. Whenever my story chooses to be finished, I'll probably be happy with it. I did think though, that it wouldn't take this much time. Oh well. I'm interspersing poetry and writing the story makes me realize: I love writing poetry So. Much More.
Okay, a little back ground info: When I started seriously writing, I was writing poetry. Obviously, I was horrid at first, but I did improve greatly. I'm a lot better now then I was when I began but I wouldn't have improved if I hadn't written so much. My style has changed over the years too.
But I was always a story teller (or creator of lies.) I am always making up stories in my head. Gradually, I veered off into fiction and at first, my poetry became fictional. Basically, it was poetry that would have been written by my characters. Art is art, right? Then I wanted to go into fiction entirely, so I stopped writing poetry. My fiction was, though, quite short, very "pretty" and poetic and it hardly contained any semblance of a plot. There was rhythm and flow but I couldn't hold on to an actual course of action. There was pretty much no dialogue and I wrote in strange, experimental ways: future tense, second person, all that shit.
I wanted my fiction to be longer and more cohesive though, so I changed my style again. I started to enjoy writing dialogue and gradually came to understand that sometimes you have to sacrifice beauty for momentum. My scenes blended into new scenes and there was an actual narrative journey.
Now I'm upset because I'm worried that my fiction isn't "pretty" enough. I can't seem to write as beautifully as I used to. My stories are longer but they just don't have the same poetic feel as when I started writing fiction. Occasionally, I do write poetry and I enjoy writing the poetry so much more than writing fiction. But my poetry still has traces of fiction in it: the poems have a narrative, they follow a storyline, they aren't "true" or about me. I'm kind of caught in the middle.
That is a problem. I honestly do not think about more than twenty topics in one day. There has to be some sort of work done here. I just keep repeating tags, like "Movie, "Movies," "Film" and "Films." But I'm trying to make some sort of standards.
***
I'm working on a story (Rent!fic, admittedly) and it's going along slowly, but well. I like it. Whenever my story chooses to be finished, I'll probably be happy with it. I did think though, that it wouldn't take this much time. Oh well. I'm interspersing poetry and writing the story makes me realize: I love writing poetry So. Much More.
Okay, a little back ground info: When I started seriously writing, I was writing poetry. Obviously, I was horrid at first, but I did improve greatly. I'm a lot better now then I was when I began but I wouldn't have improved if I hadn't written so much. My style has changed over the years too.
But I was always a story teller (or creator of lies.) I am always making up stories in my head. Gradually, I veered off into fiction and at first, my poetry became fictional. Basically, it was poetry that would have been written by my characters. Art is art, right? Then I wanted to go into fiction entirely, so I stopped writing poetry. My fiction was, though, quite short, very "pretty" and poetic and it hardly contained any semblance of a plot. There was rhythm and flow but I couldn't hold on to an actual course of action. There was pretty much no dialogue and I wrote in strange, experimental ways: future tense, second person, all that shit.
I wanted my fiction to be longer and more cohesive though, so I changed my style again. I started to enjoy writing dialogue and gradually came to understand that sometimes you have to sacrifice beauty for momentum. My scenes blended into new scenes and there was an actual narrative journey.
Now I'm upset because I'm worried that my fiction isn't "pretty" enough. I can't seem to write as beautifully as I used to. My stories are longer but they just don't have the same poetic feel as when I started writing fiction. Occasionally, I do write poetry and I enjoy writing the poetry so much more than writing fiction. But my poetry still has traces of fiction in it: the poems have a narrative, they follow a storyline, they aren't "true" or about me. I'm kind of caught in the middle.