I suppose I have been quiet on LJ recently. I was in the library for much of last week, which meant I wasn't near my PC. And it took me ages to catch up on posts about Redemption, and wanted to do those before anything else.
The short story is sort-of set in a world that I've been sort-of building intermittently for a while now, and I think I've had to do a massive amount of invention before I was even placed to write the story itself. Then I couldn't seem to excavate the story itself. It's switched protagonist three times now, and isn't remotely what I thought it would be when I started it.
I've been reading Samuel R. Delany's book about writing (called, About Writing) this week, and that's been practical and helpful.
Edited to add: I like having a process in place, a sense that I've operationalized what I'm doing. Which I managed with fanfic vignettes (because I've written so many), but haven't yet with short stories (because I've only written a handful). I want to be in a place where I can generate short stories quickly, but the only way of doing that is to write a lot of them, but then they take so much damn time... It's the frustration of incompetence, and I hate feeling incompetent.
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Date: 2009-03-12 10:44 am (UTC)The short story is sort-of set in a world that I've been sort-of building intermittently for a while now, and I think I've had to do a massive amount of invention before I was even placed to write the story itself. Then I couldn't seem to excavate the story itself. It's switched protagonist three times now, and isn't remotely what I thought it would be when I started it.
I've been reading Samuel R. Delany's book about writing (called, About Writing) this week, and that's been practical and helpful.
Edited to add: I like having a process in place, a sense that I've operationalized what I'm doing. Which I managed with fanfic vignettes (because I've written so many), but haven't yet with short stories (because I've only written a handful). I want to be in a place where I can generate short stories quickly, but the only way of doing that is to write a lot of them, but then they take so much damn time... It's the frustration of incompetence, and I hate feeling incompetent.