This is intended to humiliate myself specifically, and the rest of you in general, into forcing ourselves to write a bit each week. Of course, in my case, it never works, but there is nothing to say that I should not try.
I am still having computer problems. I am able to still write my story ideas as they get posted on line, but still don't have access to my stories. I have also worked some overtime, for about the first time this year, and that cuts into my writing time. All of this is to say that No, I did not write. I have thought of a few more adventures for my Waxy Dragon character. I will try to get one of my computers back next weekend and get back into activity fairly soon.
I am keeping up with my story ideas. I posted 30 story ideas last month. Each month I send out my story ideas to several groups of people who are either family members or to people who made the mistake of letting me know they were interested in the getting them. I take the month's collection of story ideas and write a cover letter, which is mainly telling about my month, and send them out. I had always sent them to my AOL account as I used to be able to access those files later and recover my E-mail addresses. As I was preparing to get last month's ideas together, I found that AOL truncates the email addresses, so only a few people are on the lists. Totally useless. I have to wait to get one of my other computers back up and running before I can get my E-mails out.
I set my toy cannon to the side for now. I need to work on it more. I really need to make the carriage. I found the plans. Last Monday, the story idea I posted was based on the toy cannon. I never know where ideas come from. I worked on my duck bowl. I carved the head and am trying to match the surfaces to the curve of the bowl. The proper way is to put the sand paper against the bowl, then work the duck head back and forth so it eventually matches the curves exactly. My problem is that I get impatient. I dig out the knife and grinder and try to make adjustments. I end up messing up the curve and have to get back to sanding the hard way again. Most of my wood is junk wood. If I was an advanced woodworker, I would take a piece of junk wood and shape it to match the duck bowl, and then add sandpaper or some other grit to the new blank, and just spin the wood against the duck head and grind it down to shape. I have a lot of wood but nothing that worthless so I will have to do it the slow way. For a story, the hero has a short amount of time to get something shaped right, and every time he takes a short-cut, it ends up taking him longer. One could be making a sword or a special part for a space ship. If he realizes he has to do it right before he goes too far, he might do it in time. Or he goes to far in his messing up and have to start over, then it becomes a battle to get the new one finished in time.
So, to the question at hand, I can definitely say NO, I DID NOT WRITE.
I've had so much to do since finishing the novel that I haven't had a chance to do much of anything I want. (Which is why I chose to cram so much writing into those three weeks.)
I plan to get something in today or tomorrow, as I'm able. Depends on if I want to watch Heroes and Chuck tonight or not.
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new short story, courtesy of IAB's inspiration, and opening chapter for a potential novel. I've sketched out about 20,000 words of scenes. What I really need to do is come up with the common thread, or "over story" that binds them into one cohesive whole. It's implicit, but needs to be brought out of the background. Which means that I'll spend several days wandering around in a fugue state, looking at people funny when they ask me questions or honk at me on the road.
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I actually did write. Finally came up with a story that caught my interest in the universe I made up earlier this month. Wrote it, had husband comment on it, and submitted it 4 minutes before the post office closed Saturday night (it had to be postmarked before 1 October).
Of course now that it is in the mail, I just want to tweak it...
Also set up a page on livejournal and put up a post about the handful of stories I've written so far.
Now off to start the rewrite on my historical fiction novel Daughters of Heaven. My muse is off in Japan for a few weeks, so I'm going to see what I can get done while they are away.
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I finally feel as if I've broken the ice on the rewrite of my WIP. This has been such a struggle for me, but I decided to just sit down and write... something. So i rewrote the first chapter, and then I realized I actually could use a lot of the stuff I'd already written, which I originally thought I'd have to chuck. So I'm pretty happy. It still doesn't feel right, but it no longer feels impossible.
Not much activity on the short story front. I should really do a couple rewrites, but I just don't have the energy for it.
And I'm off to France for three weeks! (delayed honeymoon). I doubt I'll have time to do much writing, at least not fiction.
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But you'll have plenty of time to observe all the details for a cool story setting! Congrats on the marriage, and have a safe and amazing honeymoon!
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No, still. The rest of my life seems to have intruded. I have to put a patina of cleanliness around my living space, this before leaving on a vacation (which starts Saturday but I don't actually leave for anywhere until early Sunday morning.)
Meanwhile I'm trying to really clean part of my office---about a fifth of the space---which consisted of last week going through five boxes of papers and making them into two boxes and change through the magic of shredding. The rest will consist of putting other papers in other boxes---it won't get rid of anything but it'll at least be neater. (I hope to get to more of the rest when I get back).
Then there's work, which is a colossal pain. (Ever been threatened because you did something exactly the way you're supposed to do it? Welcome to my world...)
But my away-time vacation is only weekend-to-weekend and I'll be back with a week-and-a-half of away-from-work vacation to go. I'm sure I can get to some writing once I do get back home...
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I did some writing when I was up in the night. It might not be very good, but I thought if I was missing sleep and going to have a horrible day after, I might as well use my insomnia time writing.
I am not, however, writing with a purpose toward a recognizable goal at this point, so I don't know if that should count.
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I spent several hours editing my classmates papers, but ashamedly, no, I didn't write. I've been meaning to finish editing a piece of flash fiction that I'll post once I'm done. That should be this week.
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