Two Memes and Alice McDermott
Jan. 5th, 2007 11:55 am( Year in Fic Meme )
Total = 31909. I didn't write much this year. XD; Actually that's not true, I wrote a lot of book reports and school essays. Anyway what you can see from this list is that I am most productive when I have a lot of free time, and write nothing (or hardly anything) when I amin Michigan concentrating on school or depressed. March was a relatively full month by way of being a release of pent-up creativity (aha), while the frustration of October and November drove me to write something, anything, in December. -_- Being a reason for why the December fics (and Type B Orchestra) aren't very good. My goal for this year is to increase my stamina (stop posting things I'm not happy with just because I am too lazy to work on them some more) and to finish a few original things.
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petronia:
It's admirable. I gave up thinking about my writing on that level months ago. ^^; It wasn't getting me anywhere. I'm still at the point where what I need to do to improve is WRITE MORE and quit posting half-finished things just because I am bored with them. At this point I have to approach every story on its own terms.
...Right now what I'm trying to do is make sure every story concludes in a way that ties together its emotional heart, not just the action, while also not being TOTALLY unsubtle and clumsy. It's what I've been trying to do all along but I think I've been missing the mark lately. At the same time I don't want to hide the strings too much; I think people like the fact that the strings are visible.
Currently working on the entry for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
holmesian (yes I know it's due today). Debating what to write afterward -- there's the MoSH fic and Chandelier to finish, Call Me Anytime, Soubi-and-Yuiko fic, Mushishi fic, Death Note where I try to actually write like a sociopath. Leaning toward this last one. Further down the line there's the multi-chapter Hunter x Hunter; I think I need to start this in a month when I'm not doing anything else, fandom-wise (February?).
Doesn't this sound like a yaoi manga? ( Cut )
From A Bigamist's Daughter by Alice McDermott. What's disturbing isn't the book as such but reviews on the back that say things like "McDermott's novels are like family albums, each scene hazy with the faded light of history, nostalgic as faded Polaroids." Is the reviewer READING THE SAME BOOK I AM READING? The one where the main character automatically dismisses ugly people, imagines everyone naked, is furious at her mother for changing her haircut? I picked up this book after reading Child of My Heart and wondering if no one else thought it was creepy that the main character in that book could accidentally let a child die and not feel remorse. All the reviews said things like it was a touching and poignant view of childhood. So I wondered, am I hallucinating the fact that the author is a well-adjusted sociopath? ( Read more... )
And while I am baring my soul to the world, here's a meme I've wanted to do for a long, long time, but didn't because I thought it would be arrogant:
Introduce Yourself! Tell me
1. Something about yourself,
2. Where you met me,
3. Why you friended me or vice versa,
4. What kind of entries you enjoy seeing here, and
5. What you wish I would post more of.
Posting this meme is like admitting that there are people on my friendlist I don't know personally. XD; it's true, but I didn't want to admit it because I wanted to live in a happy imaginary place where I am completely approachable and read everyone's journals and always reply promptly to comments. So please, just...fill out the meme. ^^; Unless you'd rather not.
Small linkblog: Livejournal Etiquette. Maybe we should write a guide to behavior. And then we could sell it for lots of money (built-in audience -- 2 million and counting!) and everyone could go back to doing exactly what they'd been doing before. XD. Anyway, this is hilarious though I obviously don't agree with the rule on introductions. Sometimes it's hard to come up with something worthy to say, and people who don't comment should be just as welcome to read a journal as people who do. It would also be hypocritical of me to ask for them -- I used to always introduce myself, but lately I haven't always bothered, particularly in cases where the person has a lot of other readers and I am unlikely to be friended back.
Total = 31909. I didn't write much this year. XD; Actually that's not true, I wrote a lot of book reports and school essays. Anyway what you can see from this list is that I am most productive when I have a lot of free time, and write nothing (or hardly anything) when I am
High-level considerations typed in a comment to
petronia: It's admirable. I gave up thinking about my writing on that level months ago. ^^; It wasn't getting me anywhere. I'm still at the point where what I need to do to improve is WRITE MORE and quit posting half-finished things just because I am bored with them. At this point I have to approach every story on its own terms.
...Right now what I'm trying to do is make sure every story concludes in a way that ties together its emotional heart, not just the action, while also not being TOTALLY unsubtle and clumsy. It's what I've been trying to do all along but I think I've been missing the mark lately. At the same time I don't want to hide the strings too much; I think people like the fact that the strings are visible.
Currently working on the entry for
holmesian (yes I know it's due today). Debating what to write afterward -- there's the MoSH fic and Chandelier to finish, Call Me Anytime, Soubi-and-Yuiko fic, Mushishi fic, Death Note where I try to actually write like a sociopath. Leaning toward this last one. Further down the line there's the multi-chapter Hunter x Hunter; I think I need to start this in a month when I'm not doing anything else, fandom-wise (February?). Doesn't this sound like a yaoi manga? ( Cut )
From A Bigamist's Daughter by Alice McDermott. What's disturbing isn't the book as such but reviews on the back that say things like "McDermott's novels are like family albums, each scene hazy with the faded light of history, nostalgic as faded Polaroids." Is the reviewer READING THE SAME BOOK I AM READING? The one where the main character automatically dismisses ugly people, imagines everyone naked, is furious at her mother for changing her haircut? I picked up this book after reading Child of My Heart and wondering if no one else thought it was creepy that the main character in that book could accidentally let a child die and not feel remorse. All the reviews said things like it was a touching and poignant view of childhood. So I wondered, am I hallucinating the fact that the author is a well-adjusted sociopath? ( Read more... )
And while I am baring my soul to the world, here's a meme I've wanted to do for a long, long time, but didn't because I thought it would be arrogant:
Introduce Yourself! Tell me
1. Something about yourself,
2. Where you met me,
3. Why you friended me or vice versa,
4. What kind of entries you enjoy seeing here, and
5. What you wish I would post more of.
Posting this meme is like admitting that there are people on my friendlist I don't know personally. XD; it's true, but I didn't want to admit it because I wanted to live in a happy imaginary place where I am completely approachable and read everyone's journals and always reply promptly to comments. So please, just...fill out the meme. ^^; Unless you'd rather not.
Small linkblog: Livejournal Etiquette. Maybe we should write a guide to behavior. And then we could sell it for lots of money (built-in audience -- 2 million and counting!) and everyone could go back to doing exactly what they'd been doing before. XD. Anyway, this is hilarious though I obviously don't agree with the rule on introductions. Sometimes it's hard to come up with something worthy to say, and people who don't comment should be just as welcome to read a journal as people who do. It would also be hypocritical of me to ask for them -- I used to always introduce myself, but lately I haven't always bothered, particularly in cases where the person has a lot of other readers and I am unlikely to be friended back.