Long chapter is long
Good gawd this last chapter of Savior Falling was long. *falls over* It came out at over 6k, which, while short on the standards of Mikara Falling, is long compared to just about everything else I do chapter-wise.
Sooooo, here is how I am doing at the moment.
30898 / 50000 words. 62% done!
I skidded in at about 1700 words today, so I'm going to leave it at that. My brain hurts from the final I wrote in Film today. Ten page essay on the cinematography and editing techniques used in the last six minutes of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). When I go in to this business, cinematography and editing will be things I have no say in. Why? I'm just not as good at them. I am not wired mentally to do these things. Mise-en-scene? Yes, I can pound that out and rock at it like no tomorrow. How exact shots should be taken.... not as terrible for me as the editing part is.
I'm one of those people who would want to shoot just what is being kept, exactly as it is being kept, with all the editing done on the spot. I've done this for a film before. It was fun. So, editing is definitely not my strong point. I think that not doing it right the first time is a waste of money and extremely inefficient, but, in the long run, it is easier to shoot stuff out of order, extra just in case, yadda ya.
That's why I stuck with stage plays for most of high school before moving up to film, and have dilly dallied around with fiction prose for so long in university before taking another crack at the whole film thing. *shrugs* Can I just sell my script to Darren Aronofsky and let him use his brilliant mind to do all that stuff that isn't the initial writing part? And then, Clint Mansell would do the soundtrack, because they always work together, and it would be amazing.
Oh yeah, I think I did fine on the final. The teacher likes my writing style, so I should make it through with an A on it. Hopefully that will translate to an A in the class as well. Hopefully.
But yay! I'm off from school until August, when I go back to being a full time student again. Ugh. I'll post what my schedule is when it gets closer to class time, and when I have the prices of all the books in hand, so I can get a lengthy rant out of it.
Sephesis Day (two days, actually) comes to a close, and I sadly only had one short thing to contribute (not counting rp). If I had been warned more than a day beforehand, I would have had more, but that's ok, because everyone else seemed to have a ton to offer. It was great. Creative juices were flying everywhere.
.....
Let's pretend that didn't sound as wrong as that did. Maybe I'm just tired. That's probably it.
I was going to post a big long journal while I was at UNM, using that detect feature and all that jazz, but my internet was being lame. I think my virus scanner thinks my email account is a virus. And I'm wondering if maybe comcast did try putting spyware in it, which is why I am having major issues checking my email lately. That would suck, as my comcast account is my main email, and I really need that email bad.
Urm...
THAT REMINDS ME!!! The whole reason I started this journal much, much earlier today was the fact that I AM INSPIRED FOR MIKARA FALLING AGAIN. I know. Holy shit. After that last rejection letter from a publishing company, I kind of lost hope. But writing this WriMo is really starting to get me back in the creative swing. I may even be able to start writing on MF again, and that would be spectacular. I think I have a much stronger opening now, and since I know exactly where it is going, I can firm up the foreshadowing and whatnot.
When I've got the first section done (the first chapter will probably be too long to post in a single journal), I will probably put it up for opinions. I will want a critical eye on it, so please, honesty is paramount when I do get it up. I still want to get MF published, even though I am more of a screenwriter than a novelist now. Heh.
Ok, that's enough rant for now. I'm going to.... play some Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and then head off to bed.
~kysis
Sooooo, here is how I am doing at the moment.
30898 / 50000 words. 62% done!
I skidded in at about 1700 words today, so I'm going to leave it at that. My brain hurts from the final I wrote in Film today. Ten page essay on the cinematography and editing techniques used in the last six minutes of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). When I go in to this business, cinematography and editing will be things I have no say in. Why? I'm just not as good at them. I am not wired mentally to do these things. Mise-en-scene? Yes, I can pound that out and rock at it like no tomorrow. How exact shots should be taken.... not as terrible for me as the editing part is.
I'm one of those people who would want to shoot just what is being kept, exactly as it is being kept, with all the editing done on the spot. I've done this for a film before. It was fun. So, editing is definitely not my strong point. I think that not doing it right the first time is a waste of money and extremely inefficient, but, in the long run, it is easier to shoot stuff out of order, extra just in case, yadda ya.
That's why I stuck with stage plays for most of high school before moving up to film, and have dilly dallied around with fiction prose for so long in university before taking another crack at the whole film thing. *shrugs* Can I just sell my script to Darren Aronofsky and let him use his brilliant mind to do all that stuff that isn't the initial writing part? And then, Clint Mansell would do the soundtrack, because they always work together, and it would be amazing.
Oh yeah, I think I did fine on the final. The teacher likes my writing style, so I should make it through with an A on it. Hopefully that will translate to an A in the class as well. Hopefully.
But yay! I'm off from school until August, when I go back to being a full time student again. Ugh. I'll post what my schedule is when it gets closer to class time, and when I have the prices of all the books in hand, so I can get a lengthy rant out of it.
Sephesis Day (two days, actually) comes to a close, and I sadly only had one short thing to contribute (not counting rp). If I had been warned more than a day beforehand, I would have had more, but that's ok, because everyone else seemed to have a ton to offer. It was great. Creative juices were flying everywhere.
.....
Let's pretend that didn't sound as wrong as that did. Maybe I'm just tired. That's probably it.
I was going to post a big long journal while I was at UNM, using that detect feature and all that jazz, but my internet was being lame. I think my virus scanner thinks my email account is a virus. And I'm wondering if maybe comcast did try putting spyware in it, which is why I am having major issues checking my email lately. That would suck, as my comcast account is my main email, and I really need that email bad.
Urm...
THAT REMINDS ME!!! The whole reason I started this journal much, much earlier today was the fact that I AM INSPIRED FOR MIKARA FALLING AGAIN. I know. Holy shit. After that last rejection letter from a publishing company, I kind of lost hope. But writing this WriMo is really starting to get me back in the creative swing. I may even be able to start writing on MF again, and that would be spectacular. I think I have a much stronger opening now, and since I know exactly where it is going, I can firm up the foreshadowing and whatnot.
When I've got the first section done (the first chapter will probably be too long to post in a single journal), I will probably put it up for opinions. I will want a critical eye on it, so please, honesty is paramount when I do get it up. I still want to get MF published, even though I am more of a screenwriter than a novelist now. Heh.
Ok, that's enough rant for now. I'm going to.... play some Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and then head off to bed.
~kysis