O, zhe zhen shi ge kuaile de jinzhan.*
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bending_sickleWritten February 17, 2006
It’s 11 pm. I think I started writing at about 8 pm.
Fruits of my labour?
A measly 795 words and one finished scene.
*whines*
It’s not even the scene I’d been planning on writing. I was going to write the “Jayne leaves the bar for the whore-house”, as opposed to the “totally fucks up at the whore-house”, the one I’ve been planning for. Instead what do I write?
“Jayne and co. go to the bar.”
They haven’t even gotten to the bar.
Hell, to be honest, it’s “Jayne and co. gather before leaving to go to the bar”.
In real time, this scene would take all of five minutes. In author-time, it’s taken three hours. *curses*
Why do I have to keep on writing backwards?!
Seriously. Every time I set out to write a story, or conjure up some sort of story-esque idea, I find myself writing a middle scene. Then I keep going backwards, explaining how we got to that scene.
This really breaks the illusion of achievement. I already know all that’s happened but don’t get to write any new stuff.
Any one else have weird methods of writing? They don’t even need to actually work.
And because writing Firefly fics means you get to learn random Chinese phrases, allow me to share a favourite:
Gaoyang zhong de guyan.
Meaning “motherless goats of all motherless goats” (or, literally, “orphan goats among young goats).
* Oh, this is a happy development.
It’s 11 pm. I think I started writing at about 8 pm.
Fruits of my labour?
A measly 795 words and one finished scene.
*whines*
It’s not even the scene I’d been planning on writing. I was going to write the “Jayne leaves the bar for the whore-house”, as opposed to the “totally fucks up at the whore-house”, the one I’ve been planning for. Instead what do I write?
“Jayne and co. go to the bar.”
They haven’t even gotten to the bar.
Hell, to be honest, it’s “Jayne and co. gather before leaving to go to the bar”.
In real time, this scene would take all of five minutes. In author-time, it’s taken three hours. *curses*
Why do I have to keep on writing backwards?!
Seriously. Every time I set out to write a story, or conjure up some sort of story-esque idea, I find myself writing a middle scene. Then I keep going backwards, explaining how we got to that scene.
This really breaks the illusion of achievement. I already know all that’s happened but don’t get to write any new stuff.
Any one else have weird methods of writing? They don’t even need to actually work.
And because writing Firefly fics means you get to learn random Chinese phrases, allow me to share a favourite:
Meaning “motherless goats of all motherless goats” (or, literally, “orphan goats among young goats).
* Oh, this is a happy development.
