4.14.2009

randon rightings raveings.

Random rightings ravings.
Yeah I know it’s misspelled. -_-

Ok kids, heres the part of the show where Erica talks, or types, to her self and looks like a crazy person! Ready?

Yay!!! Crazy person!!!!

I just needed to vent frustration about both of the stories. so much…. Failure!!
So I was re-reading the mideval and it is way way way to fast passed. You don’t get the whole excuisit detail, Lord of the Rings epic coolness feeling that the original had.
Where is that darn note book?!
And I think that the space one has the same problems. I type at a pace that is way to faset, I feel like every thing is going at break neck speed. What I estimated would take me like at lease 20 computer pages in the mideval has taken me 10. I’m not capturing the characters or the scenary the way they are in my head not to mention that the whole “squad of city killers” idea isn’t conveyed at all! Rawr! But I don’t know how to write any way else. I think I need to rewrite the whole thing which I am really dreading. It would be like rereading a book but longer and my hate for redoing things would just make me hurry along in the rewrite and it would move even faster! Gah! Is there no hope?! I guess I’ll just set it down for a while butthat will make me go back to the space one. Oh pickles am I sutck there.
Not only am I moving too fast there, but I need to make time pass, slowly. So I wright to fast and I need things to go slower than at a non fast pace! Does that even make sence? Why am I asking my sefl!? I understand what I’m trying to say. Ok ok back to the subject. So to make time pass I’m bringing in chars left and right that don’t quite fit into the story but hava a lot of words to say so pages go by. I’m like at the edge of a cliff and I have the other side written already, nice and emotional slcing up of ol’ spriggies brain, but I have to build the months of time on board in between, make my bridge to the other side one painfully slow word at a time. Grrr.
So I haven’t been working on that one for a long time, I’ll open it up to work on it, stare at the screen for 10 mintues and close it again. Just not getting any better. So I’m setting down the mideval for a while even though I have momentum, and I’m not working on this one very well, so what do I do!? Grr.

So I htikn I’m gonna start doing some writing exersies. Sit ther with a pen and note book like in the old days, and sketch with words. Look a an apple and describe to the last speck of dust. Then describe time. Sit in English and write about every boring detail. To learn how to write time. Hehe that sounds funny. The only problem is that I don’t want my book to get dull. Making time pass would be a good thing to do, but I would constantly be walking an extremely thin line of passing and dragging. Ill need to get just the right tempo. Great. However, I can fill up the passing time with sprigs and swepths relation ship building.
I was listening to NPR the other day, I know liberal right? But I believe in hearing the arguments of the statists too, even if they are all commies. So I’m litening and they do one of their section thingies on romace novels. And I’m like huh; thinking always that romace novels were like steaming and lusty and not what I would ever write. Then they start talking about how that some things are romacenovels even thought they don’t seem like it. Just as long as they follow the model, they count. Boy meets girl, they fall in love, boy or girl lose one another some how, but in the end get back together. Sound familiar? Yeah, that’s the basic relationship part of both the mideval and the space things I’m working on. What the hekc? So yeah, I’m officially a romace novelist. Wow.

5 comments:

Juliet Bravo said...

A couple of things before I give my "sage" *snicker* advice:
1. You're a romance novelist? LOL!
2. YES! I'm NOT a romance novelist!!...I am, howeverm writing a romance fanfic, but that doesn't count cuz I already knew it was a romance.
3. Good luck in robotics! (it's late, I know, but it's the thought that counts, right?)

Now, onto the advice: Good idea on the writing excercises! That should help. Also, write out a general plot line before you start to write so you don't forget any detials that might fill up some time, and you know exactly what youre doing. Also, if this is driving you totally nuts, write your general idea down so you dont forget it, then take a brake. Just step back from both ideas and focus on something else. Read a book, write a short story, rewatch LOTR for the umpteenth time, etc. Also, look at the way other authors make they're novels flow. How does Tolkien make his books so epic? What makes things flow at hogwarts? Take a look and find out.
Also, can I read your drafts? I can tell you my opinion on the pace and such in more detail after reading it.

Juliet Bravo said...

So, if you're wondering, I can add another fictional man to the list of Fictional Dudes/Guys From the 60s I Am In Love With.
The list, currently, is:
(those marked with a * refer to their 1960s self)
1. Paul McCartney*
2. Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork of the Monkees (their characters on the show, anyway)*
3. Neville Longbottom
And now...
4. Mr. Spock, circa the new Star Trek Movie, as portrayed by Zachary Quinto. I'm sorry, but I really loved his character in that movie! The whole tension between human emotion and vulcan logic is strangely attractive.

Now why am I telling you this? And why am I posting this on your blog? IDK. I've just kinda gotten obsessed with Star Trek lately....

Juliet Bravo said...

It's the part of the show where Emilyne comes out and tells Ivy to update her blog.

UPDATE THE DOGGONE BLOGGGG!!!!!!!

Juliet Bravo said...

Wow. So, you STILL haven't updated your blog... Let's see what the crew of the Enterprise thinks of that...

Kirk is too busy chasing babes to notice your blog
Spock finds your unupdated blog illogical.
McCoy says, "It's dead, Jim!"
Scotty shrugs and says, "She hasn't updated it, eh? Well, you can't change the laws o' physics."
Uhurah receives no communications from your blog.
The guy in red... is dead, so he can't offer an opinion at this time.
Yeoman Rand would like to point out that your blog is infested with tribbles.
Sulu spears your blog with a foil (the fencing kind).
Chekov... um... didn't get to beam down, so doesn't know what I'm talking about.
Beam me up, Scotty!
Live long and prosper... and UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Juliet Bravo said...

Long title: Do I have to do this all over again?
Seriously. WILL YOU EVER UPDATE???
I have exciting news to tell you. Well, you'll think it's stupid, but i'm pretty psyched!
I seriously can't believe Carey did it either. I don't think either one of us thought our plan would work, but then again, we weren't accounting in Carey's mad people skillz!