stephbg | Entries tagged with patience

For the purposes of discussion I've decided to refer to the Patience writing project as The Book. I fervently hope that it won't become a trilogy! It's too rambly to be a story, although bits of it are aligning with surprising neatness at this early stage of the game. It's definitely not a novel per se, because novels are for publishing in dead tree format, and I shudder to think what the cover artwork might look like. It's a fictional blog if anything. I just happen to have 20 or so entries going at once. Thank heavens for object-oriented authoring tools.

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Current Mood: dangerous

I'm having ideas far faster than I can write them down. I know I said yesterday that I don't believe in wordcounts, but that was before I wrote a small (600 word) chunk of actual prose. It's irresistable.

I do like this idea of quickly transcribing dialogue as a way to capture a scene, and I'll copy in a chunk of today's after the cut (Why? Why not? You don't have to read it.). It (whatever it is) is definitely a work of fantasy. Or professional catharsis at any rate. This probably doesn't make much sense in its current form (unless you've ever had the pleasure of working with ISO:9001), but there may be more one day.

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Current Mood: tired but happy

I know there's more to life than dialogue, but it seems to make life easier for me to get some words on the page/screen for random scenes for Patience if I just transcribe what the voices in my head are saying. This is off the top of my head first draft stuff, and I can fill in the directions later.

I won't be doing wordcounts to mark progress. I prefer to think in terms of story elements, character sketches, and scenes. This is purely for my own entertainment and development, and hopefully the amusement of my friends. I have no plans at this point to pressure myself into the goal of proper publication.

( A scene )

Current Mood: creative

This is what happens when I start to (not) write a fantasy trilogy. I'm kind of reasurred at how quickly I've managed to work around that whole feudal England issue.

( Some dialogue )

Current Mood: amused

I have a project. A writing project and/or dare of sorts. And I've actually started getting some words together for it. Since the story is based on a corruption of a card game this early stage involves just writing down the rules of play and how they transpose into a basic fantasy world.

( I can hear you groaning from here )

Current Mood: creative

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Propping up a dodgy memory

It's for me to keep track of myself

Entries tagged with patience

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Quality Assurance

The voices in my head

A teaser/warning/omen

In other words: writing is hard

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