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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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When I was little, my mom read some of the "Anne of Green Gables" books to me. I've always remembered the scene where Anne and some of her friends were writing stories. Diana would just kill everyone off because she didn't know what to do with them.
What if your character starts going slightly insane? Or, um, takes up a dangerous hobby or starts cow-tipping or something?
Well...Anne of Green Gables books bring up an interesting point, though. To an extent, nothing out of the ordinary happens in those. Yes, she gets into scrapes and has problems, but they're of the everyday sort, really. And yet...they're interesting. I'd love to be able to write that way, and maybe this journal is a step in that direction.
And though it's not something that will be interesting to anyone else, it isn't really THAT boring to me, because it's a way of exploring my own thoughts and of saying and describing things in a more flowery way than I really would. It just isn't...publishable or shareable...but then, that's not really my goal, I suppose. It's just something that is always at the back of my mind, even though I don't want it to be.
Heh, like the rest of our crap is publishable?
As a writer, your first audience should be you. If other people enjoy it, good, but your writing should teach you something about yourself...
It looks like Albemarle Co went for Kerry.
Jerks.
Hello, everyone.
Back later.
Yeah, but only by about 900 votes.
That's pretty evenly split maybe...I think there might be 60 or 70 thousand in the county, maybe.
Yeah, there were about 43,000 voters...
Izzit going-home time yet? I need to get some cough syrup so I can feel good again...
Yeah, yeah, I know...and realistically, I know it isn't...but the other stories I can at least DREAM of having published. So...even though this is easy and fairly fun, it rankles a bit.
But it's still a way of honing my skills, and therefore worth doing.
Besides, as one of my ex-taglines said..."Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." ;-)
heh... jest got done makin' a Dodge Truck c'mershal...
hadda drag about a dozen HUGH logs up a steep damp hill... Big Red in 4WD didn't miss a beat...
the hard werk wuz gettin' the chain around 'em, which involved diggin' under the logs and pryin' with a 5' steel bar...
a good mornin'...
Mmm, yes, I know what you mean on all those points. "Worth doing badly" - hear, hear.
I'm happy because I got in 500 words before work this morning, so I've got a nice head start on the day's wc. I really want to be at 10k tonight.
FYI, Got a postcard in the mail today for an art gallery showing of "The Wonderous Worlds of Tom Cross". I check his website and there is a lot of LOTR and other fantasy creations.
http://www.tomcross-artist.com/
Browse around, I think you guys might like it.
I probably got in 500 words today, too...but on the other story.
I really need to hide that, I think! But if it continues to be kinda slow today - I just finished two work orders that were from while I was out or continued from earlier in the week - then I may be able to get in a bit this afternoon. I need to be done by seven, though, if I'm going to go to the jam! I haven't gone in weeks, so I'd really like to...
Jam, excellent. I was thinking of doing something this weekend, but if I'm sick... How are you liking the new anime? (at risk of popcorn...)
Hey, at least you're writing something. I'm really enjoying my story right now... I'll be posting chapters 2 and 3 soon... which is good because trying to force yourself to write something dumb is no fun.
I'm only up to episode 5, and it's still rather girly, but entertaining all the same, I guess.
If I had the time, I'd love to be able to get in a good wordcount on both stories each day, but that ain't gonna happen! But on the other hand, I've found a plot device in the kid story that will advance things a little more quickly than I had anticipated, so that's good.
What sort of plot device?
Nothing spectacular. I wanted 'em to get somewhere faster, they had to get past a dragon first, and I realized...why not just have the dragon fly 'em there?
And there's a favor they can do for him in return which involves another character I wasn't sure what to do with at the end of the book, so everybody's happy.
It's still snowing out there! And cooling off. Wonder how much will "stick" by later today...
We were out diggin' a trench.... drained the paddock lake.
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