Is it ever done?
Feb. 28th, 2006 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eimarraToo tired to edit, really. I've been working on this story so long now. Major edit last week, then long crit this weekend for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marfisk. Then back to the edits, based on her crit of mine. Up until after 12:30 last night, just trying to smooth out the rough spots, fix the easy stuff. Got up this morning, sat down at the computer, and saw this hard copy with Post-its sitting here, daring me to do anything about it. More than two hours, I'm starting my third cup of tea and almost ready to begin. I don't care now. I just want to get the words in, fill the holes, mend the problems that Mar saw. I don't care about art. It doesn't matter if I like the words. Do they work? If so, I can move on. I can print and mail this, get on with the next.
So, so tired.
If this is how I feel with a story that's 14k (likely to be over 15k when I get done here), how in the world does anyone manage a novel?
marfisk. Then back to the edits, based on her crit of mine. Up until after 12:30 last night, just trying to smooth out the rough spots, fix the easy stuff. Got up this morning, sat down at the computer, and saw this hard copy with Post-its sitting here, daring me to do anything about it. More than two hours, I'm starting my third cup of tea and almost ready to begin. I don't care now. I just want to get the words in, fill the holes, mend the problems that Mar saw. I don't care about art. It doesn't matter if I like the words. Do they work? If so, I can move on. I can print and mail this, get on with the next.So, so tired.
If this is how I feel with a story that's 14k (likely to be over 15k when I get done here), how in the world does anyone manage a novel?
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Date: 2006-03-01 05:16 pm (UTC)Oh.
You mean you want to be crazy. You aren't just stumbling into it by accident.
Well.
I still think you need to build up a good base of mileage before you go trying to sprint through marathons, but if you want to try for the insane levels, well, go for it.
It is kind of a long string, just loaded with good information. I'm still trying to digest most of it.
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Date: 2006-03-02 05:28 am (UTC)Whether it's going to work in the long run, I don't know. I still think I write best in spurts. I also think maybe I write better when I've had an idea gestating for a long time. "Blood Brother" is set in a world I thought of more than 2 years ago. I did some world building, in which I wrote a paragraph on how there was this one mad king in the past. Finally, I've started writing in it. I don't know that two-year waiting periods between getting an idea and actually acting on is going to work with trying to do those insane amounts of writing.
But I keep stumbling forward, pushing myself a bit more. I have so many stories I want to tell, and so little time to tell them. Never enough.