obscure words, insolent chapters and incorporeal figments
This blasted chapter has me in a perpetual widdendream.
hmmm . . . "Widdendream has been looked up 244 times, favorited once, listed 4 times, commented on 0 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word."
It doesn't really have enough significantly scoring consonants in it anyway for it to be of interest in a good game of Scrabble.
though there are a lot of useful vowels and Ds to strategically line up adjacent to another word for a slew of two-letter hits . . .
The only problem then is remembering the fool thing.
well that's the point, though, isn't it?
ANYWAY
The chapter. I hates it.
What baffles me is how often I can read the chapters or scenes leading up to it to get me situated, to consult my notes and the outline and *still* not be able to find myself grounded enough to write it.
Part of it is that it's more traveling and I'm done with that.
More of it is that it's dark and it's taking my character to places I don't want him to have to go.
So I have come up with a plan.
a plan
Yes, a plan.
Imagine if you will, a restaurant. Specifically The Restaurant. The Restaurant at The End of The Universe.
?
In it, picture - aurally, mind - the precise tone of Ford and Arthur as Ford attempts to describe the notion of time travel to a not-so-universely Arthur Dent.
I am Ford?
You are Arthur.
I should have known
Are you waiting for the clever bit?
on pins, to be sure
The clever bit, the plan, is this. I'm going to write it backwards.
backwards?
There, now you're getting the hang of it. Yes, backwards. Because, when I begin to write the chapter I will have already arrived where I want to be and then all I'll have to do is connect. It's brilliant.
backwards?
Yes. Backwards. A wonderful way to relax.
*facepalm*
Now how does *that* work? An incorporeal figment of *my* imagination FACEPALMS?
I'm off to my other secondary world where figments are less likely to snark back.
mhm, we'll see how that goes
hmmm . . . "Widdendream has been looked up 244 times, favorited once, listed 4 times, commented on 0 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word."
It doesn't really have enough significantly scoring consonants in it anyway for it to be of interest in a good game of Scrabble.
though there are a lot of useful vowels and Ds to strategically line up adjacent to another word for a slew of two-letter hits . . .
The only problem then is remembering the fool thing.
well that's the point, though, isn't it?
ANYWAY
The chapter. I hates it.
What baffles me is how often I can read the chapters or scenes leading up to it to get me situated, to consult my notes and the outline and *still* not be able to find myself grounded enough to write it.
Part of it is that it's more traveling and I'm done with that.
More of it is that it's dark and it's taking my character to places I don't want him to have to go.
So I have come up with a plan.
a plan
Yes, a plan.
Imagine if you will, a restaurant. Specifically The Restaurant. The Restaurant at The End of The Universe.
?
In it, picture - aurally, mind - the precise tone of Ford and Arthur as Ford attempts to describe the notion of time travel to a not-so-universely Arthur Dent.
I am Ford?
You are Arthur.
I should have known
Are you waiting for the clever bit?
on pins, to be sure
The clever bit, the plan, is this. I'm going to write it backwards.
backwards?
There, now you're getting the hang of it. Yes, backwards. Because, when I begin to write the chapter I will have already arrived where I want to be and then all I'll have to do is connect. It's brilliant.
backwards?
Yes. Backwards. A wonderful way to relax.
*facepalm*
Now how does *that* work? An incorporeal figment of *my* imagination FACEPALMS?
I'm off to my other secondary world where figments are less likely to snark back.
mhm, we'll see how that goes