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asato_muraki at 09:51am on 13/06/2010 under geekachicas, nano, novel, writing, writing group
asato_muraki at 09:51am on 13/06/2010 under geekachicas, nano, novel, writing, writing groupFirst off, up on GC Friday, we had Amalia the Savage's On the Set of Thor, complete with behind-the-scenes video. (The lead is cute and Kenneth Branagh is directing, so, WOW. I still want to punch Natalie Portman in the face for comparing eating meat to 'condoning rape' and then signing that freaking Roman Polanski petition (Really, Natalie?), but I guess everyone's allowed to be stupid once in a while.)
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For the writers on my flist, here's a pep talk that Neil Gaiman wrote for NaNoWriMo a few years ago. It resonates with me right now because I'm so there, Dude.
It's vaguely comforting to know that even people who make their living full time by writing get the 4th quarter blahs. I know I just have to keep going. Pick another word and put it down. Pick the next one, put it down.
I'm up to 76,000+ words, and have about 80 pages to re-work my way through before I get to the end of them and start adding new ones. I got through about 20 pages in just a couple of hours yesterday. I can get a few more hours in before I have to go to a birthday party this afternoon.
Next week is a camp week for my youngest, so I hope to have some extra morning time to write while i wait on the West Bank for camp to finish.
It's all going quite well. I got a piece in for teh writing group, and I am suitably antsy about it. Forward ho!
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For the writers on my flist, here's a pep talk that Neil Gaiman wrote for NaNoWriMo a few years ago. It resonates with me right now because I'm so there, Dude.
The last novel I wrote (it was ANANSI BOYS, in case you were wondering) when I got three-quarters of the way through I called my agent. I told her how stupid I felt writing something no-one would ever want to read, how thin the characters were, how pointless the plot. I strongly suggested that I was ready to abandon this book and write something else instead, or perhaps I could abandon the book and take up a new life as a landscape gardener, bank-robber, short-order cook or marine biologist. And instead of sympathising or agreeing with me, or blasting me forward with a wave of enthusiasm---or even arguing with me---she simply said, suspiciously cheerfully, "Oh, you're at that part of the book, are you?"
It's vaguely comforting to know that even people who make their living full time by writing get the 4th quarter blahs. I know I just have to keep going. Pick another word and put it down. Pick the next one, put it down.
I'm up to 76,000+ words, and have about 80 pages to re-work my way through before I get to the end of them and start adding new ones. I got through about 20 pages in just a couple of hours yesterday. I can get a few more hours in before I have to go to a birthday party this afternoon.
Next week is a camp week for my youngest, so I hope to have some extra morning time to write while i wait on the West Bank for camp to finish.
It's all going quite well. I got a piece in for teh writing group, and I am suitably antsy about it. Forward ho!
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And also she's an uppity bitch. ;)