Jun. 22nd, 2010
What Am I Doing
Jun. 22nd, 2010 06:29 amI'm listening to the Gothic genius mix on iTunes and attempting to proof The Blood Crown. I've learned that 8-10 pages is my limit before my eyes begin to cross and my belly turns into a knot. I'm just not good at all at reading my own material. I know I have it to do...twice...but I don't wanna. The manuscript is 11,722 and I'm averaging about 3500 words before I have to stop. I'm marking my stopping point with a big Ω, so I'll know where to begin again. I just hope ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gunslingaaahhh can make heads or tales of the narrative when she has it in her hot hands. I need to write her today and have her trash the copy of The Blood Crown she has because I've already changed some things. I want hers to be the most up-to-date version there is, so her work won't be so daunting, although daunting it still shall be.
booraven22 has mentioned on several occasions about making major revisions to the story. I've never had to do that. The story is exactly how it was told to me and I just wrote it down with my many grammatical mistakes. It's like I channel the stories, so revising it would be like sewing an extra leg to one of my dogs. It just seems unnatural. booraven22 must have much more control over her stories and characters than I do mine. At some point, early on in my stories, the characters take control and write through me. I barely remember anything about The Augury of Gideon, which is kind of scary. All I remember is getting up way early and writing like a fiend until the early afternoon, sometimes beyond.
Is this a sign of my insanity? Was Tish right to peg me for a lunatic. That still bothers me more than it ought to, I guess because Scott doesn't know the whole story and probably never will. Whenever I do something odd or out of the norm, I always wonder if Tish was right and was justified in shutting me out of helping Scott with his career. Then again, if I were still helping Scott, I wouldn't have gotten these manuscripts written in the short period of time that I did. Everything happens for a reason I guess. It doesn't mean I have to like it though.
Like any warm-blooded human, I like to be appreciated for my work. I haven't been and I won't be on the Scott front, but maybe I will with The Vampire Relics. I'd like to someday see it on film. I know that's stretching the dream a little tightly, but it's a dream nonetheless. Tom Hardy would make such a perfect Cadmus unless young Finn wanted to take off the hat, shave his head, and try his hand at acting. I doubt that was ever happen.
Okay, enough babbling. Time to read around 5000 more words before I can't take anymore.
gunslingaaahhh can make heads or tales of the narrative when she has it in her hot hands. I need to write her today and have her trash the copy of The Blood Crown she has because I've already changed some things. I want hers to be the most up-to-date version there is, so her work won't be so daunting, although daunting it still shall be.booraven22 has mentioned on several occasions about making major revisions to the story. I've never had to do that. The story is exactly how it was told to me and I just wrote it down with my many grammatical mistakes. It's like I channel the stories, so revising it would be like sewing an extra leg to one of my dogs. It just seems unnatural. booraven22 must have much more control over her stories and characters than I do mine. At some point, early on in my stories, the characters take control and write through me. I barely remember anything about The Augury of Gideon, which is kind of scary. All I remember is getting up way early and writing like a fiend until the early afternoon, sometimes beyond.Is this a sign of my insanity? Was Tish right to peg me for a lunatic. That still bothers me more than it ought to, I guess because Scott doesn't know the whole story and probably never will. Whenever I do something odd or out of the norm, I always wonder if Tish was right and was justified in shutting me out of helping Scott with his career. Then again, if I were still helping Scott, I wouldn't have gotten these manuscripts written in the short period of time that I did. Everything happens for a reason I guess. It doesn't mean I have to like it though.
Like any warm-blooded human, I like to be appreciated for my work. I haven't been and I won't be on the Scott front, but maybe I will with The Vampire Relics. I'd like to someday see it on film. I know that's stretching the dream a little tightly, but it's a dream nonetheless. Tom Hardy would make such a perfect Cadmus unless young Finn wanted to take off the hat, shave his head, and try his hand at acting. I doubt that was ever happen.
Okay, enough babbling. Time to read around 5000 more words before I can't take anymore.
Writer's Block: Memories
Jun. 22nd, 2010 07:36 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Wow this is a hard one. I'd have to say meeting Barry Andrews was my most memorable. It was special in that I never thought I'd end up pub-crawling with the object of my abject fear for over a decade. Will I ever top it? I hope to by moving to the West Country of England. Now, a lot of people might think I'm moving there to stalk him, but he and I both know better. I want to go to the West Country because of all its sacred sites and tolerance of Paganism. My dream is to move to Avebury, not Swindon. But I do have friends in Swindon, so that's always a possibility. It is, after all, in Wiltshire which is where I want to be.
But back to that memorable memory. Enjoying the company of one of my best friends (Tallis) and finally meeting and getting along with Barry on an uncanny level has to top my list of special memories.
Wow this is a hard one. I'd have to say meeting Barry Andrews was my most memorable. It was special in that I never thought I'd end up pub-crawling with the object of my abject fear for over a decade. Will I ever top it? I hope to by moving to the West Country of England. Now, a lot of people might think I'm moving there to stalk him, but he and I both know better. I want to go to the West Country because of all its sacred sites and tolerance of Paganism. My dream is to move to Avebury, not Swindon. But I do have friends in Swindon, so that's always a possibility. It is, after all, in Wiltshire which is where I want to be.
But back to that memorable memory. Enjoying the company of one of my best friends (Tallis) and finally meeting and getting along with Barry on an uncanny level has to top my list of special memories.
Withdrawals
Jun. 22nd, 2010 07:37 pmI'm missing my characters and my story with a fury I can't sufficiently describe. Being with a majority of these characters like Cadmus is like being with your own children, I guess you could say. I've never had any children, but I guess losing my characters would be much like sending your kid off to college, or losing a child to an early death. That's not to say any of my characters die. I'm not telling. You'll just have to wait until the books come out.
My only consolation is the first read-through of the manuscripts. I desperately hate proofreading, but know I have to in order forgunslingaaahhh to work her magick. Then it'll be back to me for one more final proof before I send it off to Sophie.
So far it's all going rather quickly. I got 55 of 209 pages of The Blood Crown proofread already. Only minor changes needed to be made, which actually scared the bejesus out of me a wee tad. There should be more wrong with what I've written than I have. I'm good ::she says sarcastically:: but not that good. We'll see what the editor has to say.
My only consolation is the first read-through of the manuscripts. I desperately hate proofreading, but know I have to in order for
gunslingaaahhh to work her magick. Then it'll be back to me for one more final proof before I send it off to Sophie.So far it's all going rather quickly. I got 55 of 209 pages of The Blood Crown proofread already. Only minor changes needed to be made, which actually scared the bejesus out of me a wee tad. There should be more wrong with what I've written than I have. I'm good ::she says sarcastically:: but not that good. We'll see what the editor has to say.
