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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!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
Steve
See ya :~D
Yes - and what did you think of it?
I love the charge of the Rohirim. I think that's about my favorite part.
Gosh...get chills just thinking about it!
I can't wait for the EE! I haven't bought the movie since I'm waiting for that. Whether I can afford it when it actually comes out may be another matter, but eventually...
More Faramir in the EE... mmm...
No, forcing yourself to keep to a writing schedule keeps you from falling into the "I don't feel like writing" or "I really need to edit what I've got" traps. I almost always hate my story from the halfway point to the three-quarter mark, NaNo or no. (There's a joke about the progression of "my wonderful story" to "my current story" to "my story" to "my @#%@#$@# story" to "my wonderful finished story" that's very true...)
My ten-page research report due next Friday is going not too badly. I've got the introduction almost finished and now I need to invent some conclusions and then make the data support it... oh, is that not what you're supposed to do?
It's either that or Aragon's speech at the gates.
That is probably what I will do. As soon as I select a topic. I am thinking 'why I should have gotten full credit on assignment 1'.
No really.... a paper on why the way I worked the analysis is the better way than the way he graded it. The only problem with that topic is the math to back it up will make the paper take more work than some other topic. To bad all the stuff at work is proprietary so I can't write about any of that.
That one is better for quotes...but doesn't affect me in quite the same way. But still...one of the great scenes in movie history, IMO.
Not that I'm biased...
Heh, I think you should go for it, math or no!
Yep, that's about it. And most of the time, I give up at step 4. ;-) NaNo has been good for me in that it forces me to work past that point...or through it, in any case. I don't really have anything that's finished in the way I'd like it to be, but as I read somewhere the other day, what's "good" about a good first draft is that it's done! That's the most important part, and often very, very hard to achieve.
Doubly so for me. I just lose interest about 3/4 of the way in, most of the time.
I drop off at step 0.6
Between the 'over thought the plot' and started writing something.
Well...if'n ya think of any really wonderful plots, pass 'em over! ;-)
I'm not good at that part...
I have been getting better at constructing elaborate settings and premises but not at writing. Thinking the stuff up I love doing. Writing it down I get bored and stop. Since I learned to focus on 'feel' and character transitions I think I have gotten better at coming up with stuff. I have a couple plots that I need to adapt to not be fanfiction and a few that only need some pen going on paper to get them going. It would take me a while to explain any of them though. My two best ones are specifically designed to keep the reader guessing for awhile as the grand picture slow gets revealed.
I get bored writing things down, too. I already know the story anyway, after all...
My plotting is getting better. I don't telegraph all my punches eight chapters out now.
If we were ever in doubt, I think this would prove: Corin's a dwarf.
mine?
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