A day spent writing at S3cond St0ry with Joy, the other dude who's always there, and the passing colors of the day; from gold to dark-blue tinged with street-lamp orange. I got twelve pages done for my first chapter. I need thirty, so I'm about half-way there. Going to the café again tomorrow to finish things up. I plan on breaking all the rules, that or not caring about them. I figure after listening listening listening to rules for the past five years, I can ignore them all. It's the best way, or the only way I'll ever produce anything, so I better go with it. It doesn't matter if it's art, now does it.
I need to set my scenes better, spend time with the action before going into background, that sort of thing. Run at the image: best advice I've ever heard. That and: start and end with characters/action.
But enough.
I just ate bunny shaped pasta with cheese, brocoli, mushrooms, and tomato.
Tonight I'll be going down the BBJs, and spend some money I don't have, though I won't spend much of it. Looking forward to it. I want life to be filled with music, writing, friends and fucking. Where all of the above is work and pleasure undivided, without need of seperating.
Posted by matty-b at November 19, 2004 6:45 PMIt's quite cool that you're going above and beyond the fifteen page expectation. I think I'm going to stick pretty close to it because I don't have time to focus on the novel as yet. But, yeah, break it out.
Posted by: ben at November 20, 2004 4:21 PMYeah, I'm done the first chapter, though I still need to type it into my computer, rewrite massive chunks, establish more conflict, more tension, or the sexual sort. baby, ooh.
Posted by: m at November 20, 2004 5:07 PM