I think I passed something.
But it wasn't like my friend, gafennec's fun birth. No, this was a step in my life. When the folks replaced the apartment's carpet. (It was 11 years old, so needed so.) and replaced it with a type of vinyl, I decided to go ahead and clean out who knows how long of accumulated junk and straighten up things.
After five drawers of stuff which some was 30 years old, and selling off books and magazines that had accumulated tonite I went though my last drawer, tossed what I didn't need and kept the various nick-nacks. 1 drawer of nicknacks, and that's it.
It's weird to see so much open space, so much gone. But it feels right. I passed a milestone in my life finally. As I said about two years ago, I want to change my life, and this was one of those things I had to do. I had to toss away all the junk in my life.
I'm still working on my RESP license, but I'm starting to kick it up a notch.
I'm still writing, and I'm still doing some research. Interestingly, I just finished "Flowers for Algernon" one of the books I've been reading for my research into uplift, and I was deeply moved by it. I saw a lot of myself in it, and also I could see what Charlie was going though at the height of his intelligence. That feeling of learning something, and the compulsion to learn. I can remember that from my childhood now. As seen from a writer's POV I was amazed at how realistic Charlie, and all the characters are, and it shows what I can do if I learn how to write better; this is what I strive for. My biggest fault is that I want to make a Flowers for Algernon quality story everytime, but I have only the skills of a beginner..
That comes to my new story. I'm working on. I am only learning that if I run into a problem, instead of trying to punch though that block, go around it, or re-write the parts that is making the block. Every-time I do just that, then I start seeing more of what's behind that block. But I have to remember to do this! I'm starting to write down all these tips to keep remembering so I can advance but this is irritating!
I have a print out of Pixar's 22 rules of storytelling. I need to also add what I'm finding out now. I have 3 more tips :) They said in #8 'Finish your story. Let go even if it's not perfect... Do better next time." -That's a major obstacle I need to get past, much like I got past the do perfect the very first time, no re-writes. I found the pleasure of re-writes so I got away from that.
I also been working on the outline of the story today. After re-doing it, I simplified it, and edited parts of it. I'm starting to slowly get the ending of it, and as Pixar said 'do the ending first, for endings are hard.' boy they're not kidding.
My major desire for this story is to have a 1st stage rough draft done by the end of the year. I'm not sure if I'm on schedule yet; but I'm trying.
My ultimate goal is write and sell to Analog magazine, and Asimov Science fiction magazines - which have been dreams of mine for a very long time. MAYBE by 2013, we'll see.
Until then, I'm still working
After five drawers of stuff which some was 30 years old, and selling off books and magazines that had accumulated tonite I went though my last drawer, tossed what I didn't need and kept the various nick-nacks. 1 drawer of nicknacks, and that's it.
It's weird to see so much open space, so much gone. But it feels right. I passed a milestone in my life finally. As I said about two years ago, I want to change my life, and this was one of those things I had to do. I had to toss away all the junk in my life.
I'm still working on my RESP license, but I'm starting to kick it up a notch.
I'm still writing, and I'm still doing some research. Interestingly, I just finished "Flowers for Algernon" one of the books I've been reading for my research into uplift, and I was deeply moved by it. I saw a lot of myself in it, and also I could see what Charlie was going though at the height of his intelligence. That feeling of learning something, and the compulsion to learn. I can remember that from my childhood now. As seen from a writer's POV I was amazed at how realistic Charlie, and all the characters are, and it shows what I can do if I learn how to write better; this is what I strive for. My biggest fault is that I want to make a Flowers for Algernon quality story everytime, but I have only the skills of a beginner..
That comes to my new story. I'm working on. I am only learning that if I run into a problem, instead of trying to punch though that block, go around it, or re-write the parts that is making the block. Every-time I do just that, then I start seeing more of what's behind that block. But I have to remember to do this! I'm starting to write down all these tips to keep remembering so I can advance but this is irritating!
I have a print out of Pixar's 22 rules of storytelling. I need to also add what I'm finding out now. I have 3 more tips :) They said in #8 'Finish your story. Let go even if it's not perfect... Do better next time." -That's a major obstacle I need to get past, much like I got past the do perfect the very first time, no re-writes. I found the pleasure of re-writes so I got away from that.
I also been working on the outline of the story today. After re-doing it, I simplified it, and edited parts of it. I'm starting to slowly get the ending of it, and as Pixar said 'do the ending first, for endings are hard.' boy they're not kidding.
My major desire for this story is to have a 1st stage rough draft done by the end of the year. I'm not sure if I'm on schedule yet; but I'm trying.
My ultimate goal is write and sell to Analog magazine, and Asimov Science fiction magazines - which have been dreams of mine for a very long time. MAYBE by 2013, we'll see.
Until then, I'm still working