Well, today sucked.
Dec. 3rd, 2012 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I have accomplished absolutely nothing of note. No outline, not even a line. I copied and pasted the seven part plot-point outline into a blank doc. That's it.
This is probably a function of the fact that my brain is mushdo DUE (!!--see what I mean???) to the cold I've managed to come down with. I feel somewhat more with-it now than I have most of the afternoon, but I'm still logy and tired and bleh.
But I've started "Cold Days" and tagged an RP post. I am in the midst of making dinner for my Hung'r'd Brood. And there's a cat on me. I suppose the day's not a total loss. Plus Castle and Hawaii Five-0 are on tonight and Castle looks awesome.
Someone upload me some motivation?
This is probably a function of the fact that my brain is mush
But I've started "Cold Days" and tagged an RP post. I am in the midst of making dinner for my Hung'r'd Brood. And there's a cat on me. I suppose the day's not a total loss. Plus Castle and Hawaii Five-0 are on tonight and Castle looks awesome.
Someone upload me some motivation?
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Date: 2012-12-04 01:58 am (UTC)I'm reading Cold Days, too...which I am enjoying.
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Date: 2012-12-04 02:08 am (UTC)I just need to figure out how it goes wrong, what the cargo is, and how they're connected. It sounds simple, and normally I'd just pants my way through it. Well, I pantsed my way through my last story about them and the story ended up being fundamentally broken. I'm going to try to fix it between now and January, but I make no promises to myself.
I just started Chapter 9. I love the Harry Dresden universe so much.
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Date: 2012-12-04 02:19 am (UTC)I'm on chapter 28, I think. I don't normally get much chance to read, but this weekend I went camping with the Cherubim and his Boy Scout Troop (Orville was sick and stayed home.) And there wasn't a whole lot for me to do. Really enjoyed reading! Will probably fit more in tonight.
But not so much that I can't write tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to this description I have to write about a mural that shows a confrontation between the storm goblin known as the Heer of Dunderberg and Captain Vanderdecker (extra points if you know who that is. ;-)
I am now curious as to what is going to happen to your poor starship crew.
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Date: 2012-12-04 02:35 am (UTC)*evil laughter*
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Date: 2012-12-04 02:53 am (UTC)Vanderdecken (sorry I wrote Vanderdecker before) is the name of the real captain of the The Flying Dutchman. ;-) He is thought to have finally broken his curse by finding love in the Hudson Highlands...since my current series is set there, I threw him into the background.
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Date: 2012-12-04 02:59 am (UTC)And Hubby has given me the cargo: A colony of sentient meerkats who want to relocate to another planet (because Reasons), but the Feds don't want them to because Invasive Species! Or some other stupid reason.
So there we have it. And if you have the inclination to read any adventures of my intrepid crew, the first story in a sort of ongoing episodic series is here. It's 5200 words.
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Date: 2012-12-04 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-04 09:56 pm (UTC)For motivation, I suggest three things: First is the Gene Wolfe method: turn off the television, unplug the computer modem, eschew all distractions. Do some hard physical exercise that does not require concentration. If you are plump like me, take a walk instead. Do not do dishes or other chores that need doing.
Second is the L Jagi Lamplighter method. She is a fine writer and you should read her intricately plotted books some day. Find some particular book that is your favorite, the author whom you most admire. I suggest Tolkien or Tolstoy. Have the book in a special spot on the shelf so that you have no excuse to go browsing and selecting a book, which will eat up your procrastination time. Pluck up the book and open it at random. Find a scene or a paragraph you admire, and ask yourself what your favorite author is doing right. Then sit down at the typewriter and do it.
Third is the John C Wright method. Find a particular book that is your enemy, a book you hate with red-eyed passion. Pick up the book and read a passage at random. Tell yourself how much better you could do that particular trick, pull off that particular trope, or have something happen much more realistic or much more dramatic or both than this vile doggerel of a book.
Another method is to stab the main character and see what happens.
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Date: 2012-12-04 10:06 pm (UTC)Right now I'm in the Outlining Phase of my Massive January Short Story NaNo Project. Considering the fact that I've never actually outlined anything in my life before the last Thing, this is a radical departure in Process for me. But if I don't have a plan for this project, I'm doomed to fail, so outlining is a go.
I'm actually ahead of schedule on it, so that's something, I guess, and I did eventually accomplish part of an outline on the third of seven stories I'm planning last night. So the day wasn't a total loss after all.
Now I need to fill in the middle bits of it. Augh.
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Date: 2012-12-13 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-13 06:21 pm (UTC)