Task for today: finish rewriting "Streams" and get it sent out. And I've been mulling over the changes I need to make to Autumn's Game. (Formerly Writing Each Other's Lives). Nothing's coming...then again, the answer on Streams was so obvious that it took me forever to think of it. I'm sure this one will be the same way.
I've been working on a rough outline for The Greatest of These. (Tobie, you should be glad to hear that. ;-) I've been posting so many inspirational posts to Thunder in the Attic, I guess I sort of inspired myself. :blushes: I just thought--well, I have the idea; I have something that I want to say, something that I think needs to be said, so I ought to go ahead and say it!! After all, that's what editing and polishing are for. Never mind that I don't think I'm skilled enough at the craft to write it the way it ought to be written; I'm the one with the idea, I'm the one with the need to say something, therefore I'm the one who ought to say it! And of course that doesn't mean that I'm not going to make it the best it can possibly be; every tool I own, every method I know, will be employed to make it as good as it can be. But I have no excuse for not writing it. No one ever has any excuse for not writing the story that has been given--entrusted, really--to them to write.
Well, that's what I'm telling myself, at any rate. I dare say I shall get all nervous and waffly about it once I actually sit down and start writing. (And yes, of course I'm sitting down to type this. It's a figure of speech. :-D )
Closing this, before I get any more silly....
I've been working on a rough outline for The Greatest of These. (Tobie, you should be glad to hear that. ;-) I've been posting so many inspirational posts to Thunder in the Attic, I guess I sort of inspired myself. :blushes: I just thought--well, I have the idea; I have something that I want to say, something that I think needs to be said, so I ought to go ahead and say it!! After all, that's what editing and polishing are for. Never mind that I don't think I'm skilled enough at the craft to write it the way it ought to be written; I'm the one with the idea, I'm the one with the need to say something, therefore I'm the one who ought to say it! And of course that doesn't mean that I'm not going to make it the best it can possibly be; every tool I own, every method I know, will be employed to make it as good as it can be. But I have no excuse for not writing it. No one ever has any excuse for not writing the story that has been given--entrusted, really--to them to write.
Well, that's what I'm telling myself, at any rate. I dare say I shall get all nervous and waffly about it once I actually sit down and start writing. (And yes, of course I'm sitting down to type this. It's a figure of speech. :-D )
Closing this, before I get any more silly....
posted by Keesa | 5:57 AM
4 Comments:
I have decided to defy speech and all its figures and type this comment standing up. :D
Hehe ... you know, Keesa, if you hadn't decided to write Greatest of These, I was going to wait a certain amount of time before forcing you to - for the exact reasons mentioned in your post. ;)
Hehehe. Thanks, Tobie. You may have to, yet! It never fails to amaze me...if I give myself permission to fail, such as with Nano, I'll end up turning out copious amounts of fairly decent prose in very short times. But give me something where I really want to get it right, and I can go forever with a word here and a word there, and never really make a story.
So, I hope you have your cat-o-nine-tails and your electric cattle prod ready!! ;-)
*zaps prod experimentally*
Yeppers! It's all warmed up! ;)
:grins: Okay, okay!! I finished Rites of the Squirrel God (you don't want to know ;-), so today I did my 100 words on The Greatest of These. :-D
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