A Task

I've thought of a way to work myself back up to it. I want to go back to my very first copy of Third Bed and redo my edit - with almost none of the suggestions from the Scribophile members.

I have really not been back since before nanowrimo but i only sort of want to go back. I feel like i got more critques on my STYLE rather than important suggestions on like story line, grammar, overall understandability. all they wanted was more dialog.

maybe some of them should read some Jane Austen, some Robin Hobb, Terry Brooks, even sometimes some Stephen King. books with huge paragraphs of delicious narration and dialog only when it needs to be there. that dialog thing really bugged me. i dont like it. i dont like writing it, i don't like transcribing it once its written. i dont like anything about it. i use it when i need it most.

I do want to put Shade and Shadow up on scribophile, even though i don't want to go back. but now that i know how people are i can ignore all their idiotic remarks and focus on the informative ones. But that's jumping ahead. first i must print my very first copy of Third Bed (I there must be a version of the original or as close to it as comfortable somewhere)... sit down with it and see what happens.

And i really do want to revisit those two characters. i hearted them very much.

Foundation

I'm dribbling back. I sit in my cube at work and wonder if it is even feasible to start over. Can I pick up the Prequel and begin again? Because I can do it better. Then just continue on, and redo the Monstrocity and... whether or not the later ones need to be rewritten is up in the air but once i get that far i can find out.

It's those first two that are like the gnarly loose teeth stories. And that cant be because they are the first ones. They are the foundation.

but i'm not thinking about it often enough yet, so i know i can't start yet.

I fear that i will never find the time now...

Jo & Sol

I have been thinking about Jo and Sol a lot lately and I have really wanted to work on editing my Nanowrimo story from 2009. It turns out i don't have all of it typed up yet... boo. But i'm on chapter 29 of probably 34 or 35 - enough to get a start.

So its printing right now. I have a binder prepared to hold it and i'm so ready to get back into the writing that i've put off, and ignored and missed so very much.

but i do have to go down to the storage unit and dig through the box of writing to pull out the chapters i didn't get typed. luckily i just cleaned the unit and i know exactly where it is. Then comes the tedious job of typing it all up, but i've got stuff to work on for some time before i need to really get that far...

I'm so sick!!

well, i'm actually just barely sick anymore but there was one bright spot. my laptop's cord recently failed. again. thats like the 4th one or something. All of my writing is stored on that computer and i had no way to get into it and so no way of editing or printing up anything for work-time editing. Even though i wrote that last blog post with every intention of working on SOMETHING. but i didnt.

since i stayed home sick from work yesterday i was here when the boyfriend's brother came over with his laptop, which is just like mine and i was able to use his cord to transfer all of my writing onto the desktop. score. so now my intentions will hopefully be followed through.

Oh! I did work on one thing though. I wrote a couple pages on the next story. i found the notebook where i'd written the first chapter or so on a pile of notebooks and i took it to work and found a little inspiration. moving forward. chug chug.

two months

i've had just a little less than two months off from writing and blogging. did it feel good? yes it did. did i miss it? a little... not much...

christmas was enough to think about in december, and a baby was enough to think about in january. another little hinderance will be added to my life of writing and crafting, but a cute little hinderance it will be. its already got a nickname after all, we're pretty attached.

But I can feel the writing coming back, peeping back. the vines and grasses and flowers are starting to sneak out under the doorways into the hallway of my mind. what do i want to work on? i don't know. I know i want a break from the Prequel, i just have to have it. I almost want to work on the Monstroscity, but that seems too close to the prequel. i really am writing those two at the same time...

so the connector? I would happily take it to work with me and edit the first draft that i have not looked at since i wrote it - nano of 2009! but a great deal of story has molded and reshaped around the truth of the tale so there would be a lot to do and i would find myself engrossed and be able to refresh myself to returning to the prequel monstroscity debacle.

and the fourth option... do i write the next one. the next to last one. I sort of like how i have written them all at once because i am able to mold one storyline into another and change things from one place to another if necessary. and since i cant seem to finish ANYTHING it is quite necessary.

to write or edit, that's the question...