We have a short chapter here folks. This chapter was annoyingly dull. All the stuff I’m looking forward too, the real beginning of the end, is going to start next chapter and I’m hoping it will jump start my enthusiasm. I’m getting ideas all the time but I can’t write them out yet since the story isn’t there yet. I’m getting so sick of this chapter so I decided to ignore my normal word count requirements and just finished it. I wanted to end on this cliff hanger but I ran out of things to write. This entire chapter feels rather useless. I may just cut it out in editing, I’ll try to update quickly with real stuff.
Sorry this entry is also short but I’m technically in class, hope to be writing soon.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Idea
As I laid in bed this morning I dreamed. It was one of those dreams that give you drama and excitement, if not all of it making sense. A little, like a cheap action movie. Anyway, the important thing is that it gave me an idea, a really good idea I think. I might try to make it into a short story or a novel, I haven’t decided yet but it’s really stuck in my mind and I wanted to get a little bit out.
There’s three people, a guy, a girl and the connecting force between them; the girl’s best friend and the guy’s crush. The girl and the best friend are growing apart though they don’t acknowledge it. One day the best friend ends up on a run away bus, and to safe her the guy and the girl both step in front of it’s path, hurting them both. The guy less so. Later, when wounds are healed and the best friend has drifted away as is nature, the guy and girl meet again, as sparks fly.
This feels more like a short story since after they meet I don’t know how to add drama, but that’s okay, a romantic short story would be great to write. I just keep thinking of the phrase. “Six months ago ‘Name here’ stepped in front of a bus.”
Seems powerful to me.
Anyway, I have to go to class, but I wanted to update. I plan to work on Timeless today, don’t you worry.
There’s three people, a guy, a girl and the connecting force between them; the girl’s best friend and the guy’s crush. The girl and the best friend are growing apart though they don’t acknowledge it. One day the best friend ends up on a run away bus, and to safe her the guy and the girl both step in front of it’s path, hurting them both. The guy less so. Later, when wounds are healed and the best friend has drifted away as is nature, the guy and girl meet again, as sparks fly.
This feels more like a short story since after they meet I don’t know how to add drama, but that’s okay, a romantic short story would be great to write. I just keep thinking of the phrase. “Six months ago ‘Name here’ stepped in front of a bus.”
Seems powerful to me.
Anyway, I have to go to class, but I wanted to update. I plan to work on Timeless today, don’t you worry.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Status: Block broken! Take that!
It has been a long time. There’s a reason for this. I like to update at least weekly, I spoke last time like I’d start doing it literately weekly with an update date and everything. I still plan to do that, but I have to confess something to you Readers. Timeless died on me lately. It’s been getting harder and harder to write, what’s worse, it’s gotten boring. My work has been hard but not literately boring before. I lost touch with Jenny; and interest with her and Nebi’s relationship. It was distressing and I had to think about ditching it to work on something else, anything else. I got lots of new ideas not to mention an urge to ‘return to form’ with my innocent girls and scorpio guys. The light hearted air that drew me to Timeless was now the reason why I wanted to ditch it.
But I did that to you guys twice already. This is my third, third novel and I’m sick of it. I want to finish this book, I want it done, I want to work on something new and I want it to be something different but most of all I want to finish. I think I need to write faster. I’d like to get up to two chapters a week, with school, so I won’t get sick of my work.
Yes school starts for me tomorrow, but I have a feeling that’s only going to help. I’ve felt very restless of late and school will help focus me a bit but ignoring that for now. I was seriously debating dropping this novel. I wasn’t writing and that was depressing me. I fell back into old bad habits and was generally unhappy with myself.
Then it hit me. I knew this, somewhere in my mind I knew this, but it really hit me. All the things I’ve been craving, romance, drama, angst, is coming up in Timeless. Timeless is wrapping up, we’re in the seventh inning folks, and while anything can happen I can promise you this.
It will be dramatic. Major decisions are going to be made, lives are going to be threatened and people are going to die. I won’t say who, but there will be death, and it will be great. Remembering this revitalized me. Scenes started pouring in my head and suddenly I wanted to write. So here it is folks, chapter 12, soon to be followed by chapter 13.
I still want this novel to be over, but I’m damn well waiting until it is.
But I did that to you guys twice already. This is my third, third novel and I’m sick of it. I want to finish this book, I want it done, I want to work on something new and I want it to be something different but most of all I want to finish. I think I need to write faster. I’d like to get up to two chapters a week, with school, so I won’t get sick of my work.
Yes school starts for me tomorrow, but I have a feeling that’s only going to help. I’ve felt very restless of late and school will help focus me a bit but ignoring that for now. I was seriously debating dropping this novel. I wasn’t writing and that was depressing me. I fell back into old bad habits and was generally unhappy with myself.
Then it hit me. I knew this, somewhere in my mind I knew this, but it really hit me. All the things I’ve been craving, romance, drama, angst, is coming up in Timeless. Timeless is wrapping up, we’re in the seventh inning folks, and while anything can happen I can promise you this.
It will be dramatic. Major decisions are going to be made, lives are going to be threatened and people are going to die. I won’t say who, but there will be death, and it will be great. Remembering this revitalized me. Scenes started pouring in my head and suddenly I wanted to write. So here it is folks, chapter 12, soon to be followed by chapter 13.
I still want this novel to be over, but I’m damn well waiting until it is.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Status: Writing again; And, got into my dream college! *squee*
First news of this long blog post; I am moving my blog from livejournal to blogspot. I feel like blog spot is more open to people than livejournal which requires people to have livejouranls. Besides, blogspot was more what I was looking for when I started the blog, but being the so out of the loop person that I am, I didn’t know about it. I already set up the blog, and archived it, so it’s no different really from my livejournal but different template and I think more accessible, so I hope you folks like it.
Boy I’ve been dragging my feet like mad lately haven’t I? I love how in my last post I went on and on about how I wanted to do a chapter a day, and then I go and make everyone wait a week, or was it two? I really don’t keep track of the days very well. I had some issues over here the past few weeks. A friend went though family issues and crashed at my place, which I might have mentioned. Company made it harder to write and Timeless is a ‘use it or loose it’ story. When I just sit down and write it, it comes out great. Now and then I’ll have a problem, but over all it will flow and a little hard work can work out any kinks.
But the moment I stop, even for a little while, it will just stop on me. Jenny and I aren’t that much alike, making it harder to get into her head. Nebi and I are very alike, but try as I might, Nebi isn’t this story’s main main character. Every romance story has one main main character. The one that the couple focuses on more, sometimes just a little, sometimes a lot. This one is Jenny, not Nebi, next story I want to do with this pair may be more Nebi focused, I dunno, we’ll see. Point is, that I have to keep writing this story or I won’t write this story.
So I had writer’s block like you wouldn’t believe. The best part of my writer’s block is it often comes with special little temptations. Stuff to throw in my way to tempt me away from my third, third novel, and damnit I don’t want to do that to you guys, not again. I want to finish this book, and the more I thought that I lost the story the more I wanted to just finish it. I like my new ideas a lot, and I have some interesting ideas, (which I will discuss in a few minutes), but I want to finish this story.
This is the first of the three novels I started after Beasts that I feel I can finish. So I forced my self though this chapter and boy am I happy. It was rocky in the beginning and with the huge break between chapters I apologize if things aren’t as smooth as you’re used too. I forgot details and wrote the majority of this chapter, and this blog entry, after midnight when normally I go to bed so I’m more than a little tired. But it’s done and finally we got a little action. I didn’t leave this chapter on a cliff hanger persay, but I bet more than a few of you will feel like you’re hanging. I promise I’ll try to get my next chapter out quicker.
Even with the flow going I really want to finish this novel. I think because I feel like the end is getting closer.
On other business, I have halted editing Beasts for the time being. I think it added to my writer’s block with Timeless. The opposite way the couples handle their relationship makes it hard to swing back and forth between the two. Also, I like the quick get together, lots of shit trying to break them up, more than the long teasing get together. So I grew jealous and resentful of Timeless when I worked on Beasts. So Beast will be delayed. Not that it really affects you good people but, but it does affect me, so here it is. XD
Now, I want to discuss updates. I mentioned over the summer I want to do a chapter a day, and well the summer is coming to a close and I dunno if I’ll do that anyway, but I was thinking of how to get more people to read my work. I thought of a way that might get more people’s attention is update days, or like how webcomics update. That is, one chapter a week, always posting on say Tuesday. (I don’t know if I’d do Tuesdays, but you get what I mean.) What do you people think? If interested post in my comments? I can do a chapter a week and think I already do, but this way I could perhaps build my writing muscles to even two chapters a week. Would you guys like knowing when a chapter was coming? Please let me know.
And finally, New Idea Time! I mentioned earlier I’ve been getting new ideas and I’ve wanted to let you folks know about them. First;
Musician Magic
This is an RP idea that failed but made me want to write it anyway. My male lead came to me in a flash of inspiration and I like him already. The female lead was built a bit on my suggestions and since she was never fleshed out, it will be easy to mold into what I want from her. The basic idea is that an ex-child prodigy turned rocker approaches a girl whose recent car accident turned her from a second rate violinist into a prodigy of herself. He tells her of a level of skill only few can obtain that unlocks a magic in and of itself. He offers to teach her in payment to his old mentor, but soon the pair is dragged between the battle between the two schools of thoughts in this musical magic, and their own desire for each other. Will have cute band mates, and be a bit more adult than others, though still young.
Lover’s Lies
This is another RP idea that I mostly came up with and might want to turn into a novel. I’m not a hundred percent like with the Musician Magic one. In this one a mysterious but popular boy at school starts dating a driven, and slightly unpopular girl at high school. Their relationship is off the beaten track for both of them, but going well, if superficial. All this is changed when the boy’s magical past (I like fantasy), catches up to them, forcing them to chase a magical macguffin over this world and the next to stop a man the boy once served like a son. Along the way, the boy will learn of love and redemption and the girl will learn how to let old wounds heal and how sometimes the best treasures are the ones you already have.
Finally, Non Magic Farm Boys!
This one I might have brought up before, I don’t remember. Gist of the story is simple. A girl fights with her parents over her future, and runs away to her estrange grandfather’s farm. There she finds two brothers who have been working for her grandfather for a few years now, and view her with suspicion over her intentions with the old man she never met and his profitable farm. Eventually the suspicion may bloom into warmer, kinder emotions.
Anyway, those are my new ideas. I wanted to put them down here, so I wouldn’t forget. Well, I’m going to bed and will post this, and my new chapter in the morning. Good night Readers, I hope new changes are upon us.
Boy I’ve been dragging my feet like mad lately haven’t I? I love how in my last post I went on and on about how I wanted to do a chapter a day, and then I go and make everyone wait a week, or was it two? I really don’t keep track of the days very well. I had some issues over here the past few weeks. A friend went though family issues and crashed at my place, which I might have mentioned. Company made it harder to write and Timeless is a ‘use it or loose it’ story. When I just sit down and write it, it comes out great. Now and then I’ll have a problem, but over all it will flow and a little hard work can work out any kinks.
But the moment I stop, even for a little while, it will just stop on me. Jenny and I aren’t that much alike, making it harder to get into her head. Nebi and I are very alike, but try as I might, Nebi isn’t this story’s main main character. Every romance story has one main main character. The one that the couple focuses on more, sometimes just a little, sometimes a lot. This one is Jenny, not Nebi, next story I want to do with this pair may be more Nebi focused, I dunno, we’ll see. Point is, that I have to keep writing this story or I won’t write this story.
So I had writer’s block like you wouldn’t believe. The best part of my writer’s block is it often comes with special little temptations. Stuff to throw in my way to tempt me away from my third, third novel, and damnit I don’t want to do that to you guys, not again. I want to finish this book, and the more I thought that I lost the story the more I wanted to just finish it. I like my new ideas a lot, and I have some interesting ideas, (which I will discuss in a few minutes), but I want to finish this story.
This is the first of the three novels I started after Beasts that I feel I can finish. So I forced my self though this chapter and boy am I happy. It was rocky in the beginning and with the huge break between chapters I apologize if things aren’t as smooth as you’re used too. I forgot details and wrote the majority of this chapter, and this blog entry, after midnight when normally I go to bed so I’m more than a little tired. But it’s done and finally we got a little action. I didn’t leave this chapter on a cliff hanger persay, but I bet more than a few of you will feel like you’re hanging. I promise I’ll try to get my next chapter out quicker.
Even with the flow going I really want to finish this novel. I think because I feel like the end is getting closer.
On other business, I have halted editing Beasts for the time being. I think it added to my writer’s block with Timeless. The opposite way the couples handle their relationship makes it hard to swing back and forth between the two. Also, I like the quick get together, lots of shit trying to break them up, more than the long teasing get together. So I grew jealous and resentful of Timeless when I worked on Beasts. So Beast will be delayed. Not that it really affects you good people but, but it does affect me, so here it is. XD
Now, I want to discuss updates. I mentioned over the summer I want to do a chapter a day, and well the summer is coming to a close and I dunno if I’ll do that anyway, but I was thinking of how to get more people to read my work. I thought of a way that might get more people’s attention is update days, or like how webcomics update. That is, one chapter a week, always posting on say Tuesday. (I don’t know if I’d do Tuesdays, but you get what I mean.) What do you people think? If interested post in my comments? I can do a chapter a week and think I already do, but this way I could perhaps build my writing muscles to even two chapters a week. Would you guys like knowing when a chapter was coming? Please let me know.
And finally, New Idea Time! I mentioned earlier I’ve been getting new ideas and I’ve wanted to let you folks know about them. First;
Musician Magic
This is an RP idea that failed but made me want to write it anyway. My male lead came to me in a flash of inspiration and I like him already. The female lead was built a bit on my suggestions and since she was never fleshed out, it will be easy to mold into what I want from her. The basic idea is that an ex-child prodigy turned rocker approaches a girl whose recent car accident turned her from a second rate violinist into a prodigy of herself. He tells her of a level of skill only few can obtain that unlocks a magic in and of itself. He offers to teach her in payment to his old mentor, but soon the pair is dragged between the battle between the two schools of thoughts in this musical magic, and their own desire for each other. Will have cute band mates, and be a bit more adult than others, though still young.
Lover’s Lies
This is another RP idea that I mostly came up with and might want to turn into a novel. I’m not a hundred percent like with the Musician Magic one. In this one a mysterious but popular boy at school starts dating a driven, and slightly unpopular girl at high school. Their relationship is off the beaten track for both of them, but going well, if superficial. All this is changed when the boy’s magical past (I like fantasy), catches up to them, forcing them to chase a magical macguffin over this world and the next to stop a man the boy once served like a son. Along the way, the boy will learn of love and redemption and the girl will learn how to let old wounds heal and how sometimes the best treasures are the ones you already have.
Finally, Non Magic Farm Boys!
This one I might have brought up before, I don’t remember. Gist of the story is simple. A girl fights with her parents over her future, and runs away to her estrange grandfather’s farm. There she finds two brothers who have been working for her grandfather for a few years now, and view her with suspicion over her intentions with the old man she never met and his profitable farm. Eventually the suspicion may bloom into warmer, kinder emotions.
Anyway, those are my new ideas. I wanted to put them down here, so I wouldn’t forget. Well, I’m going to bed and will post this, and my new chapter in the morning. Good night Readers, I hope new changes are upon us.
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