I can't believe it's not NaNo
Nov. 2nd, 2010 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgDid my writing session today. A few hundred words of honest prose that one of my characters wrote for me to set up a scene. How kind of them. I think.
I confess I find it a little depressing to work on the establishing chapters. It's a toxic environment full of tired, depressed, overworked, unappreciated people and/or sundry forms of corporate arsehole doing corporate arseholey things. Much as I'd like my lead charatcer to be the life of the party and make snappy comments ASAP, she needs to ease in to the new environment or risk sounding like a complete wanker herself by contrast. I like the ability to edit those kind of mistakes out of life, if not my own.
I might have to skip forward to work on more fun bits occasionally, and fortunately my editing setup allows me to do this with relative ease. However, I shall keep to my intended priority of getting this first section drafted as completely as possible, because I think that if I didn't I'd just keep putting it off until I developed a block and then couldn't work on it at all.
Unfortunately at work I'm working on some extremely complex yet dull and excruiciating text, so even my unusually high employment fun factor is taking a bit of a battering.
While this part of The Book may drag for me as a writer I'm hoping it will pass relatively quickly for the reader. Sure it's necessary to set a baseline, but I want to get to where the bits of awesome and happy kick in. For there will be awesome and happy :-)
I confess I find it a little depressing to work on the establishing chapters. It's a toxic environment full of tired, depressed, overworked, unappreciated people and/or sundry forms of corporate arsehole doing corporate arseholey things. Much as I'd like my lead charatcer to be the life of the party and make snappy comments ASAP, she needs to ease in to the new environment or risk sounding like a complete wanker herself by contrast. I like the ability to edit those kind of mistakes out of life, if not my own.
I might have to skip forward to work on more fun bits occasionally, and fortunately my editing setup allows me to do this with relative ease. However, I shall keep to my intended priority of getting this first section drafted as completely as possible, because I think that if I didn't I'd just keep putting it off until I developed a block and then couldn't work on it at all.
Unfortunately at work I'm working on some extremely complex yet dull and excruiciating text, so even my unusually high employment fun factor is taking a bit of a battering.
While this part of The Book may drag for me as a writer I'm hoping it will pass relatively quickly for the reader. Sure it's necessary to set a baseline, but I want to get to where the bits of awesome and happy kick in. For there will be awesome and happy :-)
