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Indefinite Hiatus
It’s time to admit I am not in the same mind-place I was when I started blogging years ago. (This blog has gone through so many urls, you wouldn’t believe!) I just don’t have the mental space to remember and to plan around doing it. Additionally, I don’t feel I have much to write about. I trained myself to write analytic posts or in-depth responses to books or posts about my writing. But my life…
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what my writing might feel like here?
what my writing might feel like here?
Written: 5 March 2021 What was I thinking? Well. I was reading The Lord of the Rings’ prologue and that got me thinking about literature and what it is that’s so striking to me about LotR (it’s weight of realism w/o being real, e.g. sub-creative) and how to follow in Tolkien’s style isn’t to use what he does but the ambience of it. I feel like a lot of fantasy that came after introduced more…
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Lost and wondering
Sometime I wonder if those who followed this blog back at the beginning wonder what’s become of it, due to the changing urls. (There’s been, like, 5 to 7 since.) I am nothing if not good at inconsistency.
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Trying or Not
Written: 1 March 2020 Words: 225 But is it as simple as that? She wonders… She remembers another story, one that said trying was no good; one had to either do or not do, and how that was an impossible, or very pressuring, attitude to have. To never try anything. To always accomplish. Is that any different from what she was imagining? But can you try is you feel it is impossible? Even if…
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You know how people say, what you share or do or create doesn't have to be perfect? And I get that and I could do that, but there's other questions to address: Where do I want to share/post it? How much do I want to share/post, taking into account any future publishing reasons? It's not just sticking something on the internet. I have to know what I intend with sharing it (whatever it is). (Also having a working scanner would be really, really useful.)
Writerly Notions: Worldbuilding & Copying
Writerly Notions: Worldbuilding & Copying
I’ve realized why my writing often lacks a “spark”. Most of the writing sources I follow or consume (and how my mind interprets them) indicate that fantasy — culture, customs, history — are just copies of this world. And copies are just reflections. More to the point, it’s hard to believe a copy-world is real on its own terms. Which makes it hard, I’d wager, for others to believe in fantasy world…
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Writerly Notions: Revision & me
Writerly Notions: Revision & me
So, for awhile my approach to revising stories, be they short or long, was to either literally revise in-text or to re-write from scratch. The latter was not…the best idea. To wit, I rewrote a 68k word story, to make it fit better with where the story had gone (which is now obsolete), and it ended up at 111k words, having only made it to 2/3rds of the original plot. In other words, it became even…
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Writerly Notions: What to do?
Writerly Notions: What to do?
So I’m in a bit of a muddle. (Also, don’t mind me, I’m just clearing my thoughts.) What should I work on? Okay, scratch that. Should I write the final section of my long, long, long overdue demon mythology story, even if I’m not 100% sure it actually makes sense, nor do I know what’s happening? Or should I try to make it all fit together? And see, that’s the hitch. A lot of ideas I’ve had post…
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