Fifty Directions At Once
I just fell in love with xkcd all over again. Seriously. No, I wasn’t out of love with it…but dayum. Talk about a short story that is full of win.
There was fog this morning. Thick cottony fog. It burned off as I was on the treadmill. I am beginning to love the feeling of sweat drying on my skin. This is why I always hated gym classes–changing in front of other people when you have serious body/abuse issues? Forget it! *shivers* But now it’s all good. I can do the treadmill, shovelglove a little (don’t laugh, it really works for me), and then I can go take a shower in my own bloody bathroom.
It may not sound like much, but it’s good enough for me.
I’ve pretty much decided that as soon as the serial ends (at the end of next week) I’m going to take a short hiatus. I really need a break. I realized the sheer amount of work I’ve pumped out this year without really thinking about it, and further realized I hadn’t taken a real break in a long, long time, and decided well, to hell with THAT. Plus, I really need to spend some quality time with the FC manuscript. It’s jelled, certainly, but it also needs me to poke at it with a finger until it decides to bite back.
I actually tried outlining this book a little, but I got to the point where even a vague outline was like a straitjacket, and the Muse ran in circles yapping before throwing the entire thing out and taking the book in a new direction. Still, the outline was useful. I am such a pantser that I tend to think of an outline as only useful for prodding the Muse and then throwing out once you really know what you want to do. (YMMV, I know other writers work differently.)
Eh. I’m scattered and disconnected today. Probably time to close before I end up sporking myself in the forehead. Thank goodness it’s getting into autumn–as a winter writer, I really start to wake up around now.
Catch you on the flip side!
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September 24th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Hey Lili,
To be honest when Im writing I like to go with a method I call Jog Pants planning, lose enough to be called a plan but comfy enough to play in.
Im hoping that in this years Nano to end up with my first completed manuscript and I’ve planned it enough to allow myself to play. So its going to be interesting as its my first attempt at an Urban Fantasy.
Hopefully youre break will be a relaxing time and to be honest with you I know what its like to need one. As to poking, yeah, Im trying to find a big enough stick so if poking the muse doenst work then Im going to smack her over the head with it until she does her job.
Keep on blogging its a big help to novices like me, please, oh and a few pieces on the build up to Nano would also be a big help.
Thanks
Gareth