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I wish I could say I got a ton of writing down, but als things have been slower than before. Maybe it's because when you have less time you're more motivated to seize the moment, while being free just gives you more excuses to put off your work. My story is almost over, but I can't quite put the pieces together and the last 2-3 chapter are taking their sweet time. Good news is, I got an idea for a new story partly inspired by bringing up baby and partly by Dorothy Lamour's jungle movies. For now, I know only that it involves a nerdy anthropologist (Ray Milland, duh) and an Hawaiian native named Leilani, whom he ends up accidentally marrying on a trip. I also have the tile 'Aloha, darling' which i think is kind of funny. I wish all my story weren't so wacky, but alas, that's my brain's default setting.
Rapunzeling
Mar. 23rd, 2020 01:41 pmFirst day of week 3 of lockdown. You'd think one would accomplish something in all this time, but I haven't done much. Read two books, watched 3 movies i already saw in one day, started my Remington Steele rewatch, wrote and deleted stuff on the same story chapter about a dozen times, scrapbooked, reordered my dvd shelf, finished my crossword puzzles book, ate way too much junk food. I feel just like Rapunzel, only with way less focus and willigness to wake up at dawn to sweep the floors.
If there's one thing that distinguishes me as a writer, beside my inability to describe anything or being completely incapable of understanding or following those how-to books about story structure, is the fact that for the life of me I can't write if I don't have the exact picture of somebody in my mind.
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First entry! wheeeee!
Mar. 18th, 2020 02:13 pmWell, here I am. To be fair, I thought livejournal was dead and gone with the russians, but apparently I'm one step behind, as usual. This is the perfect place because I need somewhere low-key to express my long, jumbled thoughts about writing, pop culture, and such, especially as I just began venturing in the world of original fiction about a year ago. I would love to read this blog years from now and look back at my writing journey, see how I progressed (hopefully) from mediocrity to at least an acceptably good writer. And if I don't improve, oh well, at least I had fun!
