Current mood:	exhausted
Entry tags:	christmas, writing

The Next Monday...
The latest update? It's hard to write when you've sent stuff out. Of course, I'm making excuses. It’s not hard to write; it’s hard to begin writing.

I've begun story 5, thanks to Ken's technique of subject-->verb-->object. If you need more details, go buy his book Idea to Story in 60 Seconds. It’s worth the price of admission.

For those kids playing along at home, my finished stories are

1 The Great Warlord Kulgor (sent to Writers of the Future)
2 Of Magic Cats & Magic Cookies (editing stage - needs to be 10%'ed still.)
3 Dragon Stew (In Agilebrit's hands right now - very raw)
4 Vampirates - Story needs a new name, and about half the pages condensed/cut out

Yes, there are other stories in between, but these have been practice stories that I can't really bring myself to take seriously. One is complete, but is an exercise in viewpoint. Maybe I'll post it to as an example of "early writing". Another is merely 'on hold', and will become number 6. The rest are not gathering dust in a drawer some where, they've been fitfully abandoned as experiments. If it means anything, 3 & 4 followed each other very nicely, and while I had a couple false starts (experiment 1: fan fiction - status? Bored; I don’t enjoy writing fan fiction. Experiment 2: erotica - status? Bored; I can't bring myself to write porn without plot, as I don't find it entertaining. I want plot) in-between 4 and 5, 5 was born yesterday, plot has begun to take form, protag is protaging and wont stop till he's got himself out of the mess he goofed up and got in. Woot.

Elsewhere in the world, I'm learning the joy of what I put my parents through at Christmas. We finally have their wish lists, which become I-wish-I-had-asked-them-earlier lists for me. Ah, the fine art of learning by screwing up over and over again.

Whee!