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-Sleep at least once a week.
-Eat at least once a day, but not constantly. Don't forget the essential fatty acids (Mom).
-If my fingers freeze from carpal tunnel syndrome, I have ten perfectly good toes, a nose, and quite a few teeth.
-When I'm not happy with how things are going, turn off the screen and keep typing. Don't turn it back on until the crisis is over.
-Don't check my word count more often than every fifteen minutes.
-Dream sequences can eat up a lot of pages, and they shouldn't be logical.
-Short words count just as much as long ones.
-The perfect is the enemy of the fast. The good is the enemy of the fast. The halfway decent is the enemy of the fast.
-When I run out of plot ideas, write about setting and what each character is wearing, in exquisite wordy detail. When I run out of setting and apparel, write about the voice quality of each speaker, speech mannerisms, facial ticks, body language.
-Keep my music loud enough to drown out my thoughts. Thinking is the enemy of speed.
-Remember the infinite-monkey theory: Endless keystrokes will eventually produce Shakespeare or at least words and maybe a story.
-Never edit.
-Never ever go back.
-Eat at least once a day, but not constantly. Don't forget the essential fatty acids (Mom).
-If my fingers freeze from carpal tunnel syndrome, I have ten perfectly good toes, a nose, and quite a few teeth.
-When I'm not happy with how things are going, turn off the screen and keep typing. Don't turn it back on until the crisis is over.
-Don't check my word count more often than every fifteen minutes.
-Dream sequences can eat up a lot of pages, and they shouldn't be logical.
-Short words count just as much as long ones.
-The perfect is the enemy of the fast. The good is the enemy of the fast. The halfway decent is the enemy of the fast.
-When I run out of plot ideas, write about setting and what each character is wearing, in exquisite wordy detail. When I run out of setting and apparel, write about the voice quality of each speaker, speech mannerisms, facial ticks, body language.
-Keep my music loud enough to drown out my thoughts. Thinking is the enemy of speed.
-Remember the infinite-monkey theory: Endless keystrokes will eventually produce Shakespeare or at least words and maybe a story.
-Never edit.
-Never ever go back.
Keep your eyes peeled. We might have a new series coming soon. I really need to create a website to organize all my projects. Ooooof.
TADAH! This is my book, thus far. Eventually I'll fix all this into nice, neat little entries. But I'm super exhausted, and I'm only going to get more tired. So I'll fix it later. But for now, enjoy and comment, hate and love on it. The entries below it are the next two parts, FYI.
( Part one )
( Part two )
( Part three )
( Part four )
( Part five )
( Part six )
( Part seven )
( Part eight )
( Part nine )
( Part one )
( Part two )
( Part three )
( Part four )
( Part five )
( Part six )
( Part seven )
( Part eight )
( Part nine )
You might be a writer if...
...you have a pad of paper and a pen in every room of your house, including the bathroom!
...you've been so deep in thought about your most current project, you've put the milk in the cabinet and the cereal in the fridge.
...you've wanted (and/or bought) those kid's crayons that write on the walls of the shower to jot down those great ideas you get while showering.
...you've cried because you washed off those great ideas and forgot to write them down.
...you back up your writing on two computers, a flash (thumb,usb) drive, two hard copy, and an internet storage place, just in case!
...you've thought of something great, just as you were falling asleep, and berate yourself all day because you didn't to write it down.
...you've wasted countless hours at school or work writing instead of what you were supposed to do.
...you wake up in the middle of the night to write down a thought that just occured to you.
...you read what you wrote and find that you were too tired to think straight and everything you wrote makes no sense!
...you've fallen in love with a fictional character (extra points if its one of your own).
...you have a pad of paper and a pen in every room of your house, including the bathroom!
...you've been so deep in thought about your most current project, you've put the milk in the cabinet and the cereal in the fridge.
...you've wanted (and/or bought) those kid's crayons that write on the walls of the shower to jot down those great ideas you get while showering.
...you've cried because you washed off those great ideas and forgot to write them down.
...you back up your writing on two computers, a flash (thumb,usb) drive, two hard copy, and an internet storage place, just in case!
...you've thought of something great, just as you were falling asleep, and berate yourself all day because you didn't to write it down.
...you've wasted countless hours at school or work writing instead of what you were supposed to do.
...you wake up in the middle of the night to write down a thought that just occured to you.
...you read what you wrote and find that you were too tired to think straight and everything you wrote makes no sense!
...you've fallen in love with a fictional character (extra points if its one of your own).
This poem written by my friend Katy, who lent me the Doctor Who book, reminds me of my lovely Senga and Tucker. Well, my NaNo incarnation of them. Sigh.
I've been thinking of turning my NaNo into a script. Decisions, decisions!
I've been thinking of turning my NaNo into a script. Decisions, decisions!
So I'm reading this book that I borrowed from the Lovely Achesons, and already I want to scribble things down. Like this quote from Russell T Davies.
"Writing isn't a job that stops at six-thirty. It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, obsessive, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it."
"Writing isn't a job that stops at six-thirty. It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, obsessive, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it."
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A little warning, I don't format them correctly in my journal, mostly cuz I can't be bothered to. It takes too long.
( Part one )
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*taps the mic*
Hello? Is this thing on?
Okay, good!
I'm Sian, and I'll answer to any variations of that. I work in the lovely world of retail, though one day I hope to be a published author of some kind. As of this week/month, I'm leaning toward screenwriting.
Appropriate links for you all to stalk me on:
Twitter
Blogger
LiveJournal (this one's friends only)
So, I think I'm going to post the script I've been working on up here, and it is open to criticism, and the like. I'm still learning, so that helps.
Hello? Is this thing on?
Okay, good!
I'm Sian, and I'll answer to any variations of that. I work in the lovely world of retail, though one day I hope to be a published author of some kind. As of this week/month, I'm leaning toward screenwriting.
Appropriate links for you all to stalk me on:
Blogger
LiveJournal (this one's friends only)
So, I think I'm going to post the script I've been working on up here, and it is open to criticism, and the like. I'm still learning, so that helps.
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