It wasn't all that bad of a year. It wasn't particularly memorable or flashy, but it was a solid year. Most of it went by in a blur of monotony, but it had its moments that make me smile. It didn't give me much in the way of completed projects, but it gave me a lot of ideas for projects to be completed. It kept me with a family that loves me and that I love back. It gave me some new friends and connections with old friends.
That said, I look forward to 2011. There's going to be some big stuff coming, I can feel it.
Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts
Friday, December 31, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Thus begins a new challenge...
For the month of December, I'm participating in Reverb10, mostly to keep myself blogging in the wake of NaNo, when I usually descend into a period of non-productivity as I try to recharge my creative batteries. So, if you liked my meme-ness during the month of November, you'll love Reverb in the month of December. If you hated the meme-ness, too bad. This is my blog. Blah.
In the interest of keeping me on task with writing, I'm going to try to maintain a writerly theme with the prompts from Reverb. No idea what the prompts will actually be, but here's to jumping in feet first and seeing where I land.
On to prompt one!
In retrospect, this year, writing-wise, felt very disjointed, in that loose-limbed way you get when you've exercised too hard and do the wobbly-kneed walk of the over-exerted. (Ode to my love affair with the hyphen...)
I did a lot of writing over 2010. I really did. But it doesn't feel like it because I didn't really complete anything. I have eleven months' worth of scribbles, blog posts, story scenes and half-filled notebooks, but, with the exception of NaNoWriMo, no finished projects that I can recall. There is no skeleton, no backbone, no cohesion to the year, just a lot of small jerks of inspiration.
I wish there were a way to pull up everything I'd ever written in a particular year, anywhere, and put them in one place so I could read it all. The reviews, rants, nonsense and deep pondering that I've done and likely forgotten in the months after. There is a lot to be said for the random bits of insight and inspiration that don't really fit into anything but are just waiting to be developed into something more.
As for 2011, I'd like for it to be "collected". Not necessarily organized, not necessarily finished or edited or even comprehensible, but I'd like to be able to, in December of 2011, go back and do just what I wished for above - have a stack of all the disjointed, half-baked, glorious thought and just be able to swim in it.
In the interest of keeping me on task with writing, I'm going to try to maintain a writerly theme with the prompts from Reverb. No idea what the prompts will actually be, but here's to jumping in feet first and seeing where I land.
On to prompt one!
December 1 One Word.
Encapsulate the year 2010 in one word. Explain why you’re choosing that word. Now, imagine it’s one year from today, what would you like the word to be that captures 2011 for you?Boneless.
In retrospect, this year, writing-wise, felt very disjointed, in that loose-limbed way you get when you've exercised too hard and do the wobbly-kneed walk of the over-exerted. (Ode to my love affair with the hyphen...)
I did a lot of writing over 2010. I really did. But it doesn't feel like it because I didn't really complete anything. I have eleven months' worth of scribbles, blog posts, story scenes and half-filled notebooks, but, with the exception of NaNoWriMo, no finished projects that I can recall. There is no skeleton, no backbone, no cohesion to the year, just a lot of small jerks of inspiration.
I wish there were a way to pull up everything I'd ever written in a particular year, anywhere, and put them in one place so I could read it all. The reviews, rants, nonsense and deep pondering that I've done and likely forgotten in the months after. There is a lot to be said for the random bits of insight and inspiration that don't really fit into anything but are just waiting to be developed into something more.
As for 2011, I'd like for it to be "collected". Not necessarily organized, not necessarily finished or edited or even comprehensible, but I'd like to be able to, in December of 2011, go back and do just what I wished for above - have a stack of all the disjointed, half-baked, glorious thought and just be able to swim in it.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Whining is never the answer...
Writing, however, usually is.
Currently, my characters are doing something really stupid. I mean, really stupid. By all rights, they should die right now, that's how stupid what they're doing is. I mean, they're in a situation where the only real outcome should be that they die. I mean, they are professionals. What did they go and do a thing like that for? They knew what they were doing,so why'd they do it?
Yeah, but if they die, I'm not sure how the rest of the characters' situations are going to be resolved. But they really should die. So they might. But they might not.
Anyway, meme time!
Anyway, don't have my word count for today yet, but as of yesterday, I was at 5858. On track despite handwriting everything, spending way too much time listening to music for the NaNo CD swap and having had a really bad day yesterday.
Currently, my characters are doing something really stupid. I mean, really stupid. By all rights, they should die right now, that's how stupid what they're doing is. I mean, they're in a situation where the only real outcome should be that they die. I mean, they are professionals. What did they go and do a thing like that for? They knew what they were doing,so why'd they do it?
Yeah, but if they die, I'm not sure how the rest of the characters' situations are going to be resolved. But they really should die. So they might. But they might not.
Anyway, meme time!
Day 2 - What’s the title of your story? Why did you choose the name you did?Well, the temp title is City of Glass Eggs, which actually has nothing to do with the projected story at all. I just picked it because my novel has cities in it and glass in it and I like the words "glass" and "eggs". They sound cool. Yeah, other than that, there is no reason and hopefully I'll come up with something better before too long.
Day 3 - Pick one of your female characters. Introduce your readers to her, from her point of view and her words only."I'm Mel."
Day 4 - What genre is your novel? Why did you pick it?Erm, the best way I could sum it up would be something like "dystopian fantasy". The premise is "fairies meets zombies" basically, so... yeah. It happened that way because I had an idea once upon a time for a "fae meets girl" story,with a setting possibly in the Seelie Court. Soon afterward, I saw Terminator: Salvation and due to my propensity to emulate other works that I have read, I decided to try to set that story in a post-apocalyptic world. The nuclear fall-out zones would be like the fae's forest and so on and so forth. The zombies came in when I decided that really not-good things happen to the children that the fae kidnap and then forget about.
Anyway, don't have my word count for today yet, but as of yesterday, I was at 5858. On track despite handwriting everything, spending way too much time listening to music for the NaNo CD swap and having had a really bad day yesterday.
Monday, November 1, 2010
I'm a terrible NaNoer...
Reasons why:
1) First of all, I call us "NaNoers", whereas the official term by OLL seems to be "Wrimos". Terrible.
2) I didn't stay up until midnight as planned. I got until 10 pm and just crashed. Probably had to do with having woken up at 5 that morning.
3) I should be writing my 1667 words and instead I am blogging the below meme.
4) Meme time! Gotten from here:
Yes, I've participated in NaNo before. 2008 was my first year and first win (writing Scorpion and Sandman, still one of my most favorite things I've ever written, even if it is a big steaming pile of unedited fail right now), 2009 was last year and my second win (writing Dirt Queen, which was cool, but not as cool as I would have liked). So now I'm going three-for-three!
Writing just is. I don't know how to describe why I do it.
Participation in NaNo is something I don't even question anymore, even though it's only been two years. It's less "Why would I do NaNo?" and more "Why wouldn't I do NaNo?".
Doing a lot of handwriting right now, so I don't have a legit wordcount yet, but my first four words are "Once upon a time". I'm not expecting any record-breaking wordcounts from myself for the first few days, due to Real Life having quite a few obligations it demands I look into, but as long as I crank out the 1667 words every day for the next few days, I'll be happy.
1) First of all, I call us "NaNoers", whereas the official term by OLL seems to be "Wrimos". Terrible.
2) I didn't stay up until midnight as planned. I got until 10 pm and just crashed. Probably had to do with having woken up at 5 that morning.
3) I should be writing my 1667 words and instead I am blogging the below meme.
4) Meme time! Gotten from here:
Day 1 - Have you participated in NaNoWriMo before? If so, which years and what end result? If not (or even if so, for that matter), what’s your connection to writing? Why do you want to participate this year?
Yes, I've participated in NaNo before. 2008 was my first year and first win (writing Scorpion and Sandman, still one of my most favorite things I've ever written, even if it is a big steaming pile of unedited fail right now), 2009 was last year and my second win (writing Dirt Queen, which was cool, but not as cool as I would have liked). So now I'm going three-for-three!
Writing just is. I don't know how to describe why I do it.
Participation in NaNo is something I don't even question anymore, even though it's only been two years. It's less "Why would I do NaNo?" and more "Why wouldn't I do NaNo?".
Doing a lot of handwriting right now, so I don't have a legit wordcount yet, but my first four words are "Once upon a time". I'm not expecting any record-breaking wordcounts from myself for the first few days, due to Real Life having quite a few obligations it demands I look into, but as long as I crank out the 1667 words every day for the next few days, I'll be happy.
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