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"Digital pants ACTIVATE!"
May. 30th, 2004 05:25 pmThis is a LinkDump!post, but I'll try and hide it behind some news so you don't notice.
I've been frequenting this particular board recently, "Learn Writing With Uncle Jim". It's run by James Macdonald, a published author who also teaches creative writing. What he advocates above all else is the BIC, or "Butt In Chair" method. I feel vindicated, because that's what I've been trying to subtly urge my classmates to try.
( The best lies contain the most truth. )
So yeah. Obviously I've been thinking about writing a lot recently. I've hit one of those insurmountable blocks in my book (This is the Shadow Boys, for those not paying attention) where I have no idea what's happening next, and because I don't know the ending well enough, I can't just write for the end. Because I'm spending almost every waking hour trying to think my way around the block (or gap, which is probably more accurate), I am slowly going insane. I rifled through our bookshelves yesterday for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which I plan on reading. I am praying to every available deity that this will help. Actually writing a new short story yesterday helped, I think, for all that it kept me up to ungodly hours. It meant I did my quota of writing, even if I wasn't actually working on my novel.
I just saw an ad for YoHoHo Pirates, which is a game. I'd been vaguely interested, until I saw the ad, because, hey, it's PIRATES.
But the ad offers all these things you can do: "Gun! BilgePump!" and so forth. I'll leave "BilgePump" alone for the moment, although that's dodgy as hell. No, my favourite activity is "Carpent".
"CARPENT". That's not even a fucking word. Way to back-form, arseholes.
Eh. I won a double pass to go see Wendy Rule and Augie March tonight, so I'd better get dressed in clothing I wouldn't be afraid of being seen in.
I've been frequenting this particular board recently, "Learn Writing With Uncle Jim". It's run by James Macdonald, a published author who also teaches creative writing. What he advocates above all else is the BIC, or "Butt In Chair" method. I feel vindicated, because that's what I've been trying to subtly urge my classmates to try.
( The best lies contain the most truth. )
So yeah. Obviously I've been thinking about writing a lot recently. I've hit one of those insurmountable blocks in my book (This is the Shadow Boys, for those not paying attention) where I have no idea what's happening next, and because I don't know the ending well enough, I can't just write for the end. Because I'm spending almost every waking hour trying to think my way around the block (or gap, which is probably more accurate), I am slowly going insane. I rifled through our bookshelves yesterday for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which I plan on reading. I am praying to every available deity that this will help. Actually writing a new short story yesterday helped, I think, for all that it kept me up to ungodly hours. It meant I did my quota of writing, even if I wasn't actually working on my novel.
I just saw an ad for YoHoHo Pirates, which is a game. I'd been vaguely interested, until I saw the ad, because, hey, it's PIRATES.
But the ad offers all these things you can do: "Gun! BilgePump!" and so forth. I'll leave "BilgePump" alone for the moment, although that's dodgy as hell. No, my favourite activity is "Carpent".
"CARPENT". That's not even a fucking word. Way to back-form, arseholes.
Eh. I won a double pass to go see Wendy Rule and Augie March tonight, so I'd better get dressed in clothing I wouldn't be afraid of being seen in.