Well, it's finished. It's called The Ghost, The Zombie, and the Sociopath because I gave up trying to think of a better title. I screwed around with the last couple scenes and the whole thing has ended up at 56 pages, just over 16000 words. In three days. It's utter schlock, the kind that drips all over you and hardens into a kind of concrete that stops you from moving. It's been three days and I feel encased in my own crap writing.
But, that said, not everything's going to be brilliant and I really enjoyed the experience. I think next time I'd love to go somewhere else and hide out while I'm doing it, and there's definitely going to be a next time. I'm going to do it on the fly when I have three days and I'm going to come up with a better concept and sketch out the characters a bit more before I write the next one. I'd like to write a bunch of pulp novels like the Teiresias Jones book because it'd be fun. Joy, Matt and I discussed writing pulp novels for the summer project and we never did, and while you could say that this one is "sort of" pulp, it's not quite ready and not quite what I think I'd write if I could do it over again. This time it was an exercize, but the next time I want it to be good.
Time for bed, children.
Comments (4)
i would like to read it if you don't mind. :) congrats on finishing! xo
Posted by brandon | September 7, 2004 4:20 AM
Posted on September 7, 2004 04:20
denver has some great places that would allow you to hide away while writing. :)!
Posted by brandon | September 7, 2004 4:21 AM
Posted on September 7, 2004 04:21
Darling, don't call your writing "crap." You're insulting my friend. Then I might have to smack you, shouting, "Leave me friend alone!" and you would be miserable and develop an identity crisis. An ah-DENT-ity cr-ah-sis, darling.
Posted by Joy | September 7, 2004 8:50 AM
Posted on September 7, 2004 08:50
Well, it's not all horrible, but I seem obsessed with human/bug-alien transformation scenes. It's like bad anime.
Posted by ben | September 7, 2004 9:04 AM
Posted on September 7, 2004 09:04