An end has a start.*
Jul. 22nd, 2008 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bending_sickleToday's been a pretty slow day, seeing as how all I've done 'till now is print some stuff. (And have lunch, but not breakfast, because groceries are for the weak. Or, y'know, I'm leaving so no more fresh produce inna house.) I was planning on reading more for my Self Study, but the book, Classics in Environmental Studies: An Overview of Classic Texts in Environmental Studes sounds very, very dull.
So instead I've been reviewing The Balloonist's Wife and sort of cracking my knuckles over it, daring myself to tackle a new chapter. I haven't advanced any from my last \o/ post about it, but I'm getting a clearer idea of what's going on. Unfortunately, the bits that are clear now are the end, which means there's this whole giant gap in the middle where Stuff Has to Happen. But for once I'm not going to let that bother me. I usually write in splotchy bits, or backwards (the "how did we get here?" way of plotting), and this usually means that my stories end up growing and getting out of control and convoluted liek woah, so I eventually drop them. The ones where I try for a strict "A to B" timeline don't fare much better.
So I'm just going to swing with it. If I'm stumped on a description, I'm skipping it with nigh a [...] to mark it. If I have a vibrant image of a scene which just happens to be a flashback, it's getting written. If I'm pouring over the ending, then by gods, that's what we're tackling. So. *cracks knuckles* I realize I'm just avoiding writing Ze Big Scene #1, but hey, gotta give the muse something or she might go away again.
PS: I don't mean to be ultra-secretive about this fic - I have set out the basic plot concept on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sickle_stories. I just don't want to post the first bits - which still have some [...] in them - until it's all done. But if anyone wants to discuss stuff about Henry and Jennifer Gale, Richard and Ben-as-Henry and the whole convoluted mess that that entails, squee at me.
ETA: Ok, so this chapter is also kicking my ass. But I'm hell-bent on kicking it back.
ETA 2: I've managed to squeeze out 334 words, and am calling it quits for today. It's incredibly hard to write Richard Alpert, especially when it's just Richard, musing and doing his thing. Also, I feel like I need to extend the scene more than just the one central action, which is ridiculous, because a scene can be about what it's meant to be without padding it with extra stuff (which I haven't even imagined yet). Argh.
Links of the Day:
Lostpedia's Ben's maps and Fans' maps (including the wonderful geographical study)
Two Lost's fanvid-manips of mockery and hilarity.
lulinha_k's Lost Animated Mood Theme
* The Editors
So instead I've been reviewing The Balloonist's Wife and sort of cracking my knuckles over it, daring myself to tackle a new chapter. I haven't advanced any from my last \o/ post about it, but I'm getting a clearer idea of what's going on. Unfortunately, the bits that are clear now are the end, which means there's this whole giant gap in the middle where Stuff Has to Happen. But for once I'm not going to let that bother me. I usually write in splotchy bits, or backwards (the "how did we get here?" way of plotting), and this usually means that my stories end up growing and getting out of control and convoluted liek woah, so I eventually drop them. The ones where I try for a strict "A to B" timeline don't fare much better.
So I'm just going to swing with it. If I'm stumped on a description, I'm skipping it with nigh a [...] to mark it. If I have a vibrant image of a scene which just happens to be a flashback, it's getting written. If I'm pouring over the ending, then by gods, that's what we're tackling. So. *cracks knuckles* I realize I'm just avoiding writing Ze Big Scene #1, but hey, gotta give the muse something or she might go away again.
PS: I don't mean to be ultra-secretive about this fic - I have set out the basic plot concept on
sickle_stories. I just don't want to post the first bits - which still have some [...] in them - until it's all done. But if anyone wants to discuss stuff about Henry and Jennifer Gale, Richard and Ben-as-Henry and the whole convoluted mess that that entails, squee at me. ETA: Ok, so this chapter is also kicking my ass. But I'm hell-bent on kicking it back.
ETA 2: I've managed to squeeze out 334 words, and am calling it quits for today. It's incredibly hard to write Richard Alpert, especially when it's just Richard, musing and doing his thing. Also, I feel like I need to extend the scene more than just the one central action, which is ridiculous, because a scene can be about what it's meant to be without padding it with extra stuff (which I haven't even imagined yet). Argh.
Links of the Day:
Lostpedia's Ben's maps and Fans' maps (including the wonderful geographical study)
Two Lost's fanvid-manips of mockery and hilarity.
lulinha_k's Lost Animated Mood Theme* The Editors
