Cast a net and see what you can catch
Sep. 29th, 2008 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathrielI finished Taran Wanderer of the Prydain Chronicles yesterday, and though I'd read it long ago it was still full of surprises I'd forgotten. There are an entire three or four chapters that I swear could be used in Ask and it is Given. Such a good book- and for children! The only issue I have with it is, in the inside cover it reads: "For the boys who would have been Taran, and the girls who will always be Eilonwy." I don't want to be Eilonwy, though I love her character too. I want to be Taran ;p
So I am only a few hundred words from 100k in my YA novel draft. Yeah, that means if I get there tonight it will basically be two NaNos in two months. Speed and quantity aside, I am so effin' grateful that I have kept my head above water on this project- writers tend to develop patterns of blockage, and I'm hoping to avoid that if at all possible. And I think it is. I've only had a few hard spots, but- and this may sound silly to some of you- I just tell myself "the Creator will guide my words..."- and within a day or two I have the solution. Sometimes I've planted the solution early on and did not even realize it :O I love writing! It's like magic! This novel especially is proof of the Universe/Creator/God/Higher Self guiding my creative efforts: I've gone blindly into chapters, with nothing but my faith that I will get to the next chapter and having something good to show for it... and by gum, I did! Several times!
Also, this new short story collection idea has gotten me excited again. I asked for short stories, didn't I? I know, I'm planning on joining the characters in a separate story that might be a novel, but as it stands now I've still got real short story ideas in my head! They might only be a few thousand words! Yaaay! Thanks, Universe!
And, we finished filming Max's short "Yellow Rose in Formaldehyde" yesterday! Hopefully we'll get to see it before Halloween. I'm asking the Universe for a good short screenplay myself, preferably after NaNoWriMo is done. I do love making movies, and it's been a long time since I got to make one where I was in charge. I'm thinking I might make a new documentary for NaNoWriMo this year, especially since its the ten year anniversary, and make sure I have permission to use all the music so that I can send it to the Office of Letters and Light if it turns out well.
Oh, and tonight I might finally get a chance to work on my website if the media lab is open. I do need to write some more journals, but I figure pressure will help me think later on tonight, or tomorrow. Yay for quenching a desire! I think of it as an artist's date.
Tonight is a new moon, and Roshashana begins at sundown. It's the New Year for some of us, a new cycle for others... I'm hoping to have time before I go to bed to fix up my altars, clean the apartment, shift some elements in my guas for better feng shui for the season, and breathe a little life into the stale energy I've felt around this place. No wonder I've gotten impatient- but no longer. I am always moving forward.
Onward!
So I am only a few hundred words from 100k in my YA novel draft. Yeah, that means if I get there tonight it will basically be two NaNos in two months. Speed and quantity aside, I am so effin' grateful that I have kept my head above water on this project- writers tend to develop patterns of blockage, and I'm hoping to avoid that if at all possible. And I think it is. I've only had a few hard spots, but- and this may sound silly to some of you- I just tell myself "the Creator will guide my words..."- and within a day or two I have the solution. Sometimes I've planted the solution early on and did not even realize it :O I love writing! It's like magic! This novel especially is proof of the Universe/Creator/God/Higher Self guiding my creative efforts: I've gone blindly into chapters, with nothing but my faith that I will get to the next chapter and having something good to show for it... and by gum, I did! Several times!
Also, this new short story collection idea has gotten me excited again. I asked for short stories, didn't I? I know, I'm planning on joining the characters in a separate story that might be a novel, but as it stands now I've still got real short story ideas in my head! They might only be a few thousand words! Yaaay! Thanks, Universe!
And, we finished filming Max's short "Yellow Rose in Formaldehyde" yesterday! Hopefully we'll get to see it before Halloween. I'm asking the Universe for a good short screenplay myself, preferably after NaNoWriMo is done. I do love making movies, and it's been a long time since I got to make one where I was in charge. I'm thinking I might make a new documentary for NaNoWriMo this year, especially since its the ten year anniversary, and make sure I have permission to use all the music so that I can send it to the Office of Letters and Light if it turns out well.
Oh, and tonight I might finally get a chance to work on my website if the media lab is open. I do need to write some more journals, but I figure pressure will help me think later on tonight, or tomorrow. Yay for quenching a desire! I think of it as an artist's date.
Tonight is a new moon, and Roshashana begins at sundown. It's the New Year for some of us, a new cycle for others... I'm hoping to have time before I go to bed to fix up my altars, clean the apartment, shift some elements in my guas for better feng shui for the season, and breathe a little life into the stale energy I've felt around this place. No wonder I've gotten impatient- but no longer. I am always moving forward.
Onward!
