Chugging Along
11/17/2006
Well yesterday I spent a good part of the day writing. I didn’t get very far really. I wrote 1000 words of dialog. I left the scene where I was stuck and began writing a different scene. There was very little narration. Things move forward, but at a snail’s pace for me. I guess I find the conversations boring, but they are pretty typical. I still need to go back and finish the stuck scene. I think I need to find a good book–a well-written book just so I can read good writing.
I need to pay closer attention to what people say in conversations so I can write them with better detail.
I have created my first few characters and I still have a few more to introduce. I have ideas about things they can do to mess things up, but I just haven’t gotten that far yet. I still don’t like them very well. It reminds me of The Sims where you get to play god. I once created a character who was so stupid and annoying that I did kill her off. Slowly let her starve to death. Watched with glee. While I will admit that I created this characters, they have distinct personalities which makes them act in a certain way. Anyway, I think perhaps most of us spend too much time on pointless endeavors. I could have made my characters more intellectual, but who wants to read a book where the characters spit out their philosophy or dump their intellectual crap on whomever is around. I don’t want to read about snobs. I would want to torture them too.
I’m not sure how much time I will have to write over the weekend. I’m still doing hula dancing. I haven’t written about it in awhile. We have a show coming up in two weeks, and our last rehearsal is this Saturday–all afternoon. By the time I recover from the workout, I will have lost most of the day, if not the entire day. Luckily we have a holiday coming up, and I have no plans. Guess I will be writing.
I’m a little behind today. It’s late, and I’m just now getting to my blog. I still haven’t gotten ready for me day. An evening of debauchery will throw anyone’s schedule off.
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Causalien said,
November 17, 2006 @ 2:13 pm
Hoola is good for having a great waist.
Mr. Fabulous said,
November 18, 2006 @ 3:34 am
I always have a problem with dialogue. Which is weird because, you know…I can talk and everything.
Liz said,
November 18, 2006 @ 8:11 am
I always thought I had toruble with dialogue. But I ahven’t had any trouble at all with these characters although it is the typical mundane stuff we all talk about it certain situations. One thing though, my characters aren’t discussing the weather, so I suppose it could be worse.