Great news, peeps! I finished it! The fan fiction I've been working on, that is. It's been so fast, so fun, and so strenuous, I loved it! I'll be posting it chapter by chapter onto fanfiction.net. It's 51,000 words total, 100 pages.
So... after I've celebrated, what next? I could and maybe should go back to the book I was working on before this, but I don't really want to. I could go back and edit my first book, which is in desperate need of editing and major revision. But I don't really want to do that either.
I want a shiny, new idea to work on. I want to write another book for July's Nanowrimo. It's just weird to be idle (though it is my own fault). However, unlike other writers, I don't have an overflow of really good ideas.
Anyways, I'll keep plugging along and see what I can find. 'Til next time, everyone!
~Crimson
Friday, June 28, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
This Isn't Nanowrimo, But It Should Be
I haven't blogged in a bit. There are beautiful, beautiful distractions that have kept my mind away away from blogging.
Okay, well, some of them are beautiful. I was in the midst of slowly plowing through the first draft of a manuscript when BAM! A story hit me in the face like a block of gold. For about an hour or so, I tried to encourage the thought to stay in my mind and then drift away from me. I didn't want to actually write down my idea because first of all, I was in the middle of writing another book, and secondly (probably the most important) it was fan fiction. Nothing I would be able to publish or show to people outside of the fandom.
But the idea prevailed and I started writing. And writing. And writing. It was the most focused I'd been on any project in a long, long while. By the end of the first week, I had over 20,000 words written. Twenty. Thousand. Words. That may not seem like much to some of my writing friends, but for me it was a downright miraculous feat. I've never won Nanowrimo. I usually find it strenuous enough to write a thousand words a day. And there I was, with over twenty thousand words in a single week. If I could keep it up, I would have a novel done in less than three weeks.
Well, since then I've slowed down just a little (life tends to get in the way of one's writing) but I'm coming up on the end of Week Two and I'm at about 36,000 words and still have today to write. It's been getting harder to write, but I'm not going to give up and go back to the old me of writing only a thousand words in a day. Fan fiction though it may be, this feels like some of the best writing I've ever accomplished in my entire life, and it feels GREAT!
Okay, well, some of them are beautiful. I was in the midst of slowly plowing through the first draft of a manuscript when BAM! A story hit me in the face like a block of gold. For about an hour or so, I tried to encourage the thought to stay in my mind and then drift away from me. I didn't want to actually write down my idea because first of all, I was in the middle of writing another book, and secondly (probably the most important) it was fan fiction. Nothing I would be able to publish or show to people outside of the fandom.
But the idea prevailed and I started writing. And writing. And writing. It was the most focused I'd been on any project in a long, long while. By the end of the first week, I had over 20,000 words written. Twenty. Thousand. Words. That may not seem like much to some of my writing friends, but for me it was a downright miraculous feat. I've never won Nanowrimo. I usually find it strenuous enough to write a thousand words a day. And there I was, with over twenty thousand words in a single week. If I could keep it up, I would have a novel done in less than three weeks.
Well, since then I've slowed down just a little (life tends to get in the way of one's writing) but I'm coming up on the end of Week Two and I'm at about 36,000 words and still have today to write. It's been getting harder to write, but I'm not going to give up and go back to the old me of writing only a thousand words in a day. Fan fiction though it may be, this feels like some of the best writing I've ever accomplished in my entire life, and it feels GREAT!
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Ooh, It's EXCITING!
Item Numero Uno: I wrote today. I've been lazy, afflicted by this 'writer's block' (a disease I refuse to believe in), and completely unmotivated. But really, I have way too much time on my hands, so I wrote today. Over 1,500 words. I deserve applause.
Not really. I actually deserve to be smacked upside the head, but that's a little more unpleasant. HOWEVER! What's really exciting is the motivation I've been finding! I have found three things that have motivated me to write:
1. Past Nanowrimo pep talks (and if you don't know what Nanowrimo is, look it up. Look it up NOW).
2. Nanowrimo songs (yes, I know it's not Nanowrimo, but it should be writing month for me every month).
3. The blog of Miss Snark's First Victim. I missed their critique day, but I've had a lot of fun reading the entries and comments of entries and I've really enjoyed it. I think just from reading the critiques I've gotten better at writing. No, seriously. I'm a bit disappointed about the quality of my writing now, but that's important! That is good! Because it means that I'm improving my craft.
Don't be afraid of getting better. Be afraid of staying the same.
~Crimson
Not really. I actually deserve to be smacked upside the head, but that's a little more unpleasant. HOWEVER! What's really exciting is the motivation I've been finding! I have found three things that have motivated me to write:
1. Past Nanowrimo pep talks (and if you don't know what Nanowrimo is, look it up. Look it up NOW).
2. Nanowrimo songs (yes, I know it's not Nanowrimo, but it should be writing month for me every month).
3. The blog of Miss Snark's First Victim. I missed their critique day, but I've had a lot of fun reading the entries and comments of entries and I've really enjoyed it. I think just from reading the critiques I've gotten better at writing. No, seriously. I'm a bit disappointed about the quality of my writing now, but that's important! That is good! Because it means that I'm improving my craft.
Don't be afraid of getting better. Be afraid of staying the same.
~Crimson
Monday, June 3, 2013
The Pre-Life Crisis-- Ner, That Didn't Come Out Right
I've noticed something. Something very interesting about our society. When people become 'adults' they sort of disappear. You see 'adult' friends on occasion, but for the most part they disappear. They work, they go to college, they get married, or they move away. You don't see them at school.
Then poof! You graduate high school. You can now see the invisible people, and you lose your old life structure. Is this what they call 'growing up'? I can't believe that such a loose term applies to me. Because it doesn't.
It's just weird, right now. Public school has been my life since kindergarten, and all I know is that when people graduated high school they disappeared, and adults popped into existence when they got married and moved into the neighborhood. With four kids.
This is going to take a while to process. I'm going to try to ignore the weird, and just focus on... other stuff. Other interesting stuff. Yeaaaah.
-Crimson
Then poof! You graduate high school. You can now see the invisible people, and you lose your old life structure. Is this what they call 'growing up'? I can't believe that such a loose term applies to me. Because it doesn't.
It's just weird, right now. Public school has been my life since kindergarten, and all I know is that when people graduated high school they disappeared, and adults popped into existence when they got married and moved into the neighborhood. With four kids.
This is going to take a while to process. I'm going to try to ignore the weird, and just focus on... other stuff. Other interesting stuff. Yeaaaah.
-Crimson
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