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In short:
The weather was nice all weekend. Considering that I'm used to 80*F in the spring, this felt normal.
My mom called and said that my cousin's baby is out of the hospital now. YAY.
Went out for lunch at an Irish pub Saturday, before food shopping.
Went to the zoo on Sunday. A little bit cool outside; too bad I wore my shorts.
Yesterday I got a nice walk before the kids came home. Otherwise, there isn't much to tell.
I'm still pretty boned for writing. It's been nearly a year since my writer's block began. I've been able to write two or three snippets for all_unwritten prompt, one of which was a short Luna story. It was actually the first thing I'd written after Deathly Hallows came out, since the epilogue sort of killed my ambitions. However, I'm having tremendous difficult getting started on my original fiction. Normally, a blank document would seem daunting for a few minutes, but then I'd write an opening line. I usually find one interesting thing to say off the bat, sometimes dialogue or random observation, and then run with it. That's my style: a first impression that is meant to be misleading or interpreted in many ways. It gives me room to flesh out the scene, and then develop the character.
What's odd is that I have many story ideas that I've written down, and a few character worksheets. Yes, I base my character creation on roleplaying manuals. It helps me to keep on task, to list their attributes and to develop a backstory. So I have backstory on many characters, including the completely fleshed out Aiko Kitsune. I was able to rescue a partial rough draft of "The Nine Tails of Aiko Kitsune", and I remember a lot of the plot. However, the file reads like the beginnings of three chapters, because I'd stop writing and then start up a different scene out of order. The earliest version drew inspiration from my survivor story, but I didn't want that to be the focus of the story. The romantic interest would meet Aiko after these events, when she needed a safe place and time to heal. I never meant there to be a confrontation with her abuser. The second attempt started with Aiko's background and introduced the fact that she was a Japanese-American werefox. I wrote two versions: one in which her transformations were tied to the moon, and another in which she was a shapeshifter, which drew more upon Japanese fox spirit lore. Before my computer was misplaced, I'd had 50K of novel written, because it had been meant for NaNoWriMo. At the last minute, I'd chickened out and submitted a Harry Potter fanfiction, because I was not done tweaking this one.
Before leaving Florida, I contacted someone about an anthology, which never quite got off the ground. I'd penned a short story from the kitsune novel, but I never got around to finishing the actual novel. It stalled out just after the revelation of Aiko's true nature. So, that's my task this summer: to finish the novel, to rewrite the whole damned thing if necessary.
The weather was nice all weekend. Considering that I'm used to 80*F in the spring, this felt normal.
My mom called and said that my cousin's baby is out of the hospital now. YAY.
Went out for lunch at an Irish pub Saturday, before food shopping.
Went to the zoo on Sunday. A little bit cool outside; too bad I wore my shorts.
Yesterday I got a nice walk before the kids came home. Otherwise, there isn't much to tell.
I'm still pretty boned for writing. It's been nearly a year since my writer's block began. I've been able to write two or three snippets for all_unwritten prompt, one of which was a short Luna story. It was actually the first thing I'd written after Deathly Hallows came out, since the epilogue sort of killed my ambitions. However, I'm having tremendous difficult getting started on my original fiction. Normally, a blank document would seem daunting for a few minutes, but then I'd write an opening line. I usually find one interesting thing to say off the bat, sometimes dialogue or random observation, and then run with it. That's my style: a first impression that is meant to be misleading or interpreted in many ways. It gives me room to flesh out the scene, and then develop the character.
What's odd is that I have many story ideas that I've written down, and a few character worksheets. Yes, I base my character creation on roleplaying manuals. It helps me to keep on task, to list their attributes and to develop a backstory. So I have backstory on many characters, including the completely fleshed out Aiko Kitsune. I was able to rescue a partial rough draft of "The Nine Tails of Aiko Kitsune", and I remember a lot of the plot. However, the file reads like the beginnings of three chapters, because I'd stop writing and then start up a different scene out of order. The earliest version drew inspiration from my survivor story, but I didn't want that to be the focus of the story. The romantic interest would meet Aiko after these events, when she needed a safe place and time to heal. I never meant there to be a confrontation with her abuser. The second attempt started with Aiko's background and introduced the fact that she was a Japanese-American werefox. I wrote two versions: one in which her transformations were tied to the moon, and another in which she was a shapeshifter, which drew more upon Japanese fox spirit lore. Before my computer was misplaced, I'd had 50K of novel written, because it had been meant for NaNoWriMo. At the last minute, I'd chickened out and submitted a Harry Potter fanfiction, because I was not done tweaking this one.
Before leaving Florida, I contacted someone about an anthology, which never quite got off the ground. I'd penned a short story from the kitsune novel, but I never got around to finishing the actual novel. It stalled out just after the revelation of Aiko's true nature. So, that's my task this summer: to finish the novel, to rewrite the whole damned thing if necessary.
