Well, clearly, someone is not willing to be seriously dedicated to keeping up with her blog...shame on me.
For sure.
There is much I wish to touch upon, but the serious itch to continue writing one of my many writing projects is awfully distracting, so a real post will have to wait. BUT! To make up for a five day hiatus, I have published not one...but TWO pieces of TWO of the projects I am currently working on. Huzzah!,
The first is a horror/zombie (yes, zombie, muahaha) project temporarily entitled Fathers & Daughters that I am writing for a friendly encouraging contest my roller derby friend (and one amazing spectacular coach), Major and I are having. We're challenging each other to write a story in the horror genre and meet the due date we have each and every month. Last month was our first and was mildly successful, although, like usual, I got way too excited and just wrote, wrote, wrote. And yes, the spelling, and grammar errors are plentiful! I refuse to do any of that till the second draft. So, if you, dear follower of the tirades, are reading, please pay no mind to those errors, even if they do bug you. Obviously, if such errors are bothering you, I am not doing my job in telling a good story.
I love to write, I simply find it the greatest joy -stress relief-escape-release ever. I could sit and write all day if society (and my moth riddled wallet) would let me. I would close my woman-cave door, light the beach sand scented Yankee Candle and just go at it for hours, developing stories and characters that I never thought could exist. I love creating outlines-where this character is going, what they're doing..what their fate may be. I have dozens of pictures ripped from magazines to help describe characters. I feel smart and clever when I write. It's such a happy feeling.
I have already written a 365 page young adult novel. I have let a few people read it and then in a moment of clarity, I chucked the whole thing in the trash and started from scratch. (Inspired much to my lovely friend, Coventry's excellent critiques...throwing it away was a good thing!) Now it's again rising in page number and it's exciting to watch my monster grow.
So, Fathers & Daughters is posted and also two "snippets" of another of my young adult projects, entitled "Cinders". Each chapter is a different character and their perspective on the post-apocalyptic events occurring around them. So, my hope with this one is to post a new chapter every day. Now I have about 150 pages of this completed, so that gives me plenty of time to continue writing the story without pressure of having a new chapter so quickly...but I would love feedback. Writing is the one art form I love, love, love criticism on. How the hell am I to get better?
Oh, and this totally turned into a post! Huzzah! I win! Panda paw to the roof!
Listening: "Hello Seattle" Owl City
Writing: Untitled Young Adult fiction
Weight Watchers Points left for the day: geeshh....2
No comments:
Post a Comment