Americantypo
from Philadelphia is reading The Bone ClocksMarch 27, 2012 - 5:46am
Semi relieved to no longer be in this. You guys need some valium!
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryMarch 27, 2012 - 6:01am
Not me. I'm chill.
SHUT UP!
VOICES!
KILL! KILL!!
WAAAAARRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Richard
from St. Louis is reading various anthologiesMarch 27, 2012 - 6:04am
still chewing on my prompt. haven't written anything, yet. so many different ways to come at it. had an inkling of an idea as i was falling asleep last night. but now i've forgotten it. i've found that whatever emerges is what SHOULD be written. i like to just hold on to an idea for a few days (or longer) if i can.
Liana
from Romania and Texas is reading Naked LunchMarch 27, 2012 - 7:14am
I haven't written anything, I'm not sure what I'll write, but I have a line in my head. It's a cool line though. @Moon, are you done, you're telling me?
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 27, 2012 - 1:19pm
@Voodem: That is exactly how I start out, by pasting the prompt. That immediate feeling of accomplishment!
Then I sit there and stare at the blinking cursor. Blinking. Blinking. Blinking. Fuckers mocking me. Shut up cursor! You mocker! I can hear its nagging cursor voice. It sounds like a Kraftwerk voice, a Die Roboter voice. It follows me to bed every night. Blinking.
Asking:
What Now? What Now? What Now?
Want How? Want How? Want How?
Want Who? Want Who? Want Who?
What Own? What Own? What Own?
Haw Town? Haw Town? Haw Town?
Haw Wont! Haw Wont! Haw Wont!
Aw Nth Ow! Aw Nth Ow! Aw Nth Ow!
A Nth Wow? A Nth Wow? A Nth Wow?
Thaw Now? Thaw Now? Thaw Now?
Than Wow! Than Wow! Than Wow!
What Won? What Won? What Won?
Bill, I think I am going to need some of that diazepam.
voodoo_em
from England is reading All the books by Ira LevinMarch 27, 2012 - 1:47pm
Panic over I have my idea!
I have managed only 200 words, but oh yes, I am pleased with where they are going.
Unless I just jinxed myself saying that :S
@Chester Yes that's how it is, just staring at a blank page feeling hopeless.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.March 27, 2012 - 2:27pm
First draft almost finished. So close.
War takes it out of you, huh? Not seen the sky much just lately. However. So close.
The pressure!
Haha. All good. Actually I do almost have a draft finished, though its been tough this time round, the story hasn't come out as cleanly as Walking On Water did on the first run. I am not 100% on this one yet. Clipping and trimming and tailoring be needed. Right now I have a suspicion it s actuallty a bit of a mess and wouldn't get a whole load of votes.
I'm still confident there's a story hiding in there somewhere, I just have to try and make the best of her features.
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesMarch 27, 2012 - 3:16pm
Got a bunch down last night. Of course it strayed pretty far from the plot outline (this is why I never use outlines) so now I'm stumped again. My really really long drive home usually helps me ponder things a bit though. Here's hoping it turns out as good as it was when I read it in my head.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.March 27, 2012 - 3:20pm
Good luck, meat Profunda. I am unsure of how to tackle this one. I just don't want to pick the obvious cliche scenarios.
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesMarch 27, 2012 - 3:32pm
I wrote mine as a limmerick. You should do that too. ;)
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesMarch 27, 2012 - 3:37pm
my names KElly, Blah blah blah, MY names KELly, BLah, blah blah!
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.March 27, 2012 - 3:36pm
I am going more for a Madmen meets Beetlejuice thing.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.March 27, 2012 - 3:37pm
Ok Kelly meat Profundia Saint.
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesMarch 27, 2012 - 3:38pm
Jesus Jumpin' Jimminy. I should probably start closing my internet when I leave my desk. Now you all know my dirty secret. Blah blah blah.
Jason Van Horn
from North Carolina is reading A Feast For CrowsMarch 27, 2012 - 3:58pm
My name is Kelly, and I rub my belly, after eating mincemeat pie. I don't know why I eat mincemeat pie but my belly shakes like some jelly.
......okay so THAT'S why I'm not in the second round!
Nikki Guerlain
from Portlandia
March 27, 2012 - 4:08pm
Wow what a lovefest. So many awesome prizes being added! I mean a cock pic? Geez!
Hope everyone is doing well!
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 27, 2012 - 4:23pm
@Martin: Fuck You! You better write us a better story than last time. No let downs. We expect to have our tits blown off again.
Hi @Nikkles! We miss you! Well, you and Randy and Bobby.
I have not wrote a fuggin' word.
I been bizzy though. I took some of Richard the Magician's advice and started chewing on my prompt. Even went out and bought some extra nice paper at Staples for the printer. I even printed it out in color. Raspberry red. I been chewing on it all afternoon and it keeps gettin' all mushy so I have to reprint it out again and again. I am starting to get really full and still nuthin'!
So I decided to give that a break and I started watching tape on Bekanator. I think I found a couple weak spots in her defensive line I can capitalize on.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.March 27, 2012 - 4:44pm
Ok, kelly, no more discussing our stories even in vague terms. I see what you are doing, trying to get me Utahnized.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 27, 2012 - 4:45pm
Utahnized!
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.March 27, 2012 - 4:52pm
@ Chester, I'll try,
One things for sure, this story is very different from Walking On Water. Very different indeed.
It's a tougher prompt. Had to scratch my head a while before digging into this one. The are ways the prompt wants me to go but in a way I am trying to resist those. Every story I write, I set myself a challenge. For round one my challenge was to write something good in 3rd person which I don't really feel I have done much of before then. I passed my own little test that time.
This time, who knows? It's a new test. I have failed plenty enough times before.
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterMarch 27, 2012 - 5:09pm
I'm getting to know the characters in this story a lot faster than I did the characters in my piece from the first round. I keep telling myself not to worry about the word count, but it's always in the back of my head. My goal is to have my first draft done tonight so I can start taking the hacksaw to it tomorrow.
Liana
from Romania and Texas is reading Naked LunchMarch 27, 2012 - 5:17pm
I can't stop scratching my head!!!
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesMarch 27, 2012 - 5:18pm
Time to switch shampoo! ;)
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsMarch 27, 2012 - 5:43pm
I don't know how you people work so efficiently. Finishing drafts and revising and shit. Mind bottling.
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesMarch 27, 2012 - 5:51pm
I could really use some bottled mind if you're handing them out.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 27, 2012 - 6:02pm
@Fist Kitten: He-he.
Mind bottling. I like that. Minds in bottles. That just might be the spark I was looking for.
Liana, I am doing a lot of the same. That reminds of the time the in-laws were visiting and my younger son who was eleven at the time had really long hair. One night during my older son's birthday party, my younger son kept scratching his head really hard with both hands. He'd been doing it more and more. Finally I looked at his scalp.
Thousands of lice. Thousands and thousands. I shaved his head along with mine that night. Everyone else took their chances. The women refused to shave their heads. Understandable.
The in-laws returned to France. With American lice. Meanwhile we killed them three times. They finally died. Only my older son avoided infestation. He was straightening his hair at the time. Apparently the heat kills them. Otherwise vaseline works. They suffocate in it.
I still think shaving is the most efficient.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.March 27, 2012 - 6:05pm
@ Renfield. I am doing it all in epic shifts this last couple of days because from tomorrow I have virtually no time for working on it. Have had a lot of coffee. Right now I am on a mini break to refresh my head.
Still closing in on the goal of a finished draft before I am allowed to sleep. I'm not far off. It's kinda getting late but I think I can do it. What time I do scrape togther after tonight can then be spent double checking and editing and cutting out bits that suck.
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsMarch 27, 2012 - 6:06pm
@Chester
Plus you look like a badass Kojack. Who loves ya baby? That's Kojack right? I don't fuckin know.
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsMarch 27, 2012 - 6:17pm
This is fun to watch.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 27, 2012 - 6:30pm
@Rennie: Telly Savalas; Now there is a name for ya. Yule Brenner and Telly Savalas.
@Covey: You a voyeurist?
Liana
from Romania and Texas is reading Naked LunchMarch 27, 2012 - 7:58pm
Kojak, the original bald badass!
Chester, I admit now that I had lice as a kid, and it was horrible (I should move this to laughable admissions). The whole school was crawling with them so you could not escape them. My mom would douse our hair with gas (as in, car gas) and.... no, not set it on fire. She'd cover our heads with a scarf and she'd make us stay like that for minutes (seemed like days) while those little suckers were screaming and dying (and putting up a very itchy fight).
I won't say we're soulmates now, but at the very least licemates.
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterMarch 27, 2012 - 8:31pm
Liana: What the hell? We just had awesome lice shampoo growing up. I remember my mom used to babysit these girls when my sister and I were young. Their household was pretty dirty, and they always had lice and thus, transferred it to me and my sister. We had to put all our stuffed animals in garbage bags, which was pretty upsetting.
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesMarch 27, 2012 - 9:52pm
Draft one - DONE.
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesMarch 28, 2012 - 10:52am
WHAT THE FUCK, Seriously, I am going to throw my computer out the window. Generally, when you finish a story, and you hit SAVE. and you open the new SAVED document to make sure it looks good, and then you go to bed. When you look at the SAVED document again, should the last 900 words you typed not STILL BE IN THE FUCKING DOCUMENT?? Seriously I am going to throw my fucking computer out the window. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!!
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelMarch 28, 2012 - 10:58am
Computers don't lie, they show you exactly what you did. You may have thought you did, but your computer is telling you it was all just a dream.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 28, 2012 - 11:00am
Ouch. I hate that. Sorry Fist Kitten.
@Liana & Rebecca: I am actually shocked that everyone in the world who has hair isn't walking around with lice. Those fuckers are hell to get rid of. And there is nothing to be ashamed of. Lice don't give a flying fuck if you are Martha Stewart, they still want to suck your blood. I always think it is funny the stigma that accompanies lice; only the unkempt and squalid get lice.
When all you have to do is go to the movies or get on an airplane and lean your head back on a contaminated headrest.
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesMarch 28, 2012 - 11:08am
My computer is a lying sack of shit. I need to go back to writing on looseleaf, this is fucking stupid.
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterMarch 28, 2012 - 11:21am
Profunda: From my experience, whenever I lose a crunk of work, the stuff I write the next day is usually better. Hopefully the same goes for you, although I'm sure Danny's pretty smug about this right now...
My first draft is done, aside from an integral falling action scene that I really know nothing about at this point. Nevertheless, it's pretty much a first draft. Printin' her out!
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesMarch 28, 2012 - 11:24am
I wish i had a goddamn printer. I am too enraged to even write a word right now. I really hope I can get it re-done. I liked what I had a lot. BOOFUCKINHOO!
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 28, 2012 - 11:43am
You still have it Kelly.
@Rebecca: Good job.
I have this one idea that won't shut up eventhough I keep telling it to. So I might just end up going with it if it is still yelling at me on Saturday.
Bekanator
from Kamloops, British Columbia is reading Ugly Girls by Lindsay HunterMarch 28, 2012 - 12:09pm
@Chester: It's not all good. I'm kind of having doubts about my piece, but it's too late to go back now.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 28, 2012 - 12:36pm
@Rebecca: I feel like that perpetually.
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsMarch 28, 2012 - 12:56pm
You got half the week left, it's not too late.
I've got Christa Faust's class assignment due friday and these assignments are pretty tough for me. So probably grinding that out until Friday night then starting on this story, I feel I have a comfortable grasp on this story idea so it seems like it will work out.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 28, 2012 - 1:26pm
How is that class Rennie? That sounds like a good one...
Yeah, sometimes, for me, less time is better when I actually go to exgurgitate a ruminating idea. I am the kind of writer who will buff and polish a piece into non-existence given enough time. I could work on one sentence for years.
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsMarch 28, 2012 - 1:45pm
The class is a magnifying glass on all my writing weaknesses so far. Crime writing, female characters, dialogue, characterization, reimagining literary tropes. Probably the toughest intensive I've taken so far.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 28, 2012 - 2:19pm
Tough is good. So it sounds like you'd recommend it.
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsMarch 28, 2012 - 2:24pm
Yes, enthusiastically.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.March 28, 2012 - 3:48pm
At least the stories aren't due til Sunday, if it was Friday I would quit now.
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsMarch 28, 2012 - 9:42pm
@Chester, I'm not a peeping tom, but its fun to look in and see the universal writing frustrations, makes me feel like I'm not alone. However, I keep reading these chats and not writing anything. Bad. Those classes sound just what I need. Maybe I can save some cash and take one.
@Prof, I also would throw my computer out the window for not doing what I told it to do. It would land right on top of my printer.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryMarch 29, 2012 - 5:55am
Semi relieved to no longer be in this. You guys need some valium!
Not me. I'm chill.
SHUT UP!
VOICES!
KILL! KILL!!
WAAAAARRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
still chewing on my prompt. haven't written anything, yet. so many different ways to come at it. had an inkling of an idea as i was falling asleep last night. but now i've forgotten it. i've found that whatever emerges is what SHOULD be written. i like to just hold on to an idea for a few days (or longer) if i can.
I haven't written anything, I'm not sure what I'll write, but I have a line in my head. It's a cool line though. @Moon, are you done, you're telling me?
@Voodem: That is exactly how I start out, by pasting the prompt. That immediate feeling of accomplishment!
Then I sit there and stare at the blinking cursor. Blinking. Blinking. Blinking. Fuckers mocking me. Shut up cursor! You mocker! I can hear its nagging cursor voice. It sounds like a Kraftwerk voice, a Die Roboter voice. It follows me to bed every night. Blinking.
Asking:
What Now? What Now? What Now?
Want How? Want How? Want How?
Want Who? Want Who? Want Who?
What Own? What Own? What Own?
Haw Town? Haw Town? Haw Town?
Haw Wont! Haw Wont! Haw Wont!
Aw Nth Ow! Aw Nth Ow! Aw Nth Ow!
A Nth Wow? A Nth Wow? A Nth Wow?
Thaw Now? Thaw Now? Thaw Now?
Than Wow! Than Wow! Than Wow!
What Won? What Won? What Won?
Bill, I think I am going to need some of that diazepam.
Panic over I have my idea!
I have managed only 200 words, but oh yes, I am pleased with where they are going.
Unless I just jinxed myself saying that :S
@Chester Yes that's how it is, just staring at a blank page feeling hopeless.
First draft almost finished. So close.
War takes it out of you, huh? Not seen the sky much just lately. However. So close.
The pressure!
Haha. All good. Actually I do almost have a draft finished, though its been tough this time round, the story hasn't come out as cleanly as Walking On Water did on the first run. I am not 100% on this one yet. Clipping and trimming and tailoring be needed. Right now I have a suspicion it s actuallty a bit of a mess and wouldn't get a whole load of votes.
I'm still confident there's a story hiding in there somewhere, I just have to try and make the best of her features.
Got a bunch down last night. Of course it strayed pretty far from the plot outline (this is why I never use outlines) so now I'm stumped again. My really really long drive home usually helps me ponder things a bit though. Here's hoping it turns out as good as it was when I read it in my head.
Good luck, meat Profunda. I am unsure of how to tackle this one. I just don't want to pick the obvious cliche scenarios.
I wrote mine as a limmerick. You should do that too. ;)
my names KElly, Blah blah blah, MY names KELly, BLah, blah blah!
I am going more for a Madmen meets Beetlejuice thing.
Ok Kelly meat Profundia Saint.
Jesus Jumpin' Jimminy. I should probably start closing my internet when I leave my desk. Now you all know my dirty secret. Blah blah blah.
My name is Kelly, and I rub my belly, after eating mincemeat pie. I don't know why I eat mincemeat pie but my belly shakes like some jelly.
......okay so THAT'S why I'm not in the second round!
Wow what a lovefest. So many awesome prizes being added! I mean a cock pic? Geez!
Hope everyone is doing well!
@Martin: Fuck You! You better write us a better story than last time. No let downs. We expect to have our tits blown off again.
Hi @Nikkles! We miss you! Well, you and Randy and Bobby.
I have not wrote a fuggin' word.
I been bizzy though. I took some of Richard the Magician's advice and started chewing on my prompt. Even went out and bought some extra nice paper at Staples for the printer. I even printed it out in color. Raspberry red. I been chewing on it all afternoon and it keeps gettin' all mushy so I have to reprint it out again and again. I am starting to get really full and still nuthin'!
So I decided to give that a break and I started watching tape on Bekanator. I think I found a couple weak spots in her defensive line I can capitalize on.
Ok, kelly, no more discussing our stories even in vague terms. I see what you are doing, trying to get me Utahnized.
Utahnized!
@ Chester, I'll try,
One things for sure, this story is very different from Walking On Water. Very different indeed.
It's a tougher prompt. Had to scratch my head a while before digging into this one. The are ways the prompt wants me to go but in a way I am trying to resist those. Every story I write, I set myself a challenge. For round one my challenge was to write something good in 3rd person which I don't really feel I have done much of before then. I passed my own little test that time.
This time, who knows? It's a new test. I have failed plenty enough times before.
I'm getting to know the characters in this story a lot faster than I did the characters in my piece from the first round. I keep telling myself not to worry about the word count, but it's always in the back of my head. My goal is to have my first draft done tonight so I can start taking the hacksaw to it tomorrow.
I can't stop scratching my head!!!
Time to switch shampoo! ;)
I don't know how you people work so efficiently. Finishing drafts and revising and shit. Mind bottling.
I could really use some bottled mind if you're handing them out.
@Fist Kitten: He-he.
Mind bottling. I like that. Minds in bottles. That just might be the spark I was looking for.
Liana, I am doing a lot of the same. That reminds of the time the in-laws were visiting and my younger son who was eleven at the time had really long hair. One night during my older son's birthday party, my younger son kept scratching his head really hard with both hands. He'd been doing it more and more. Finally I looked at his scalp.
Thousands of lice. Thousands and thousands. I shaved his head along with mine that night. Everyone else took their chances. The women refused to shave their heads. Understandable.
The in-laws returned to France. With American lice. Meanwhile we killed them three times. They finally died. Only my older son avoided infestation. He was straightening his hair at the time. Apparently the heat kills them. Otherwise vaseline works. They suffocate in it.
I still think shaving is the most efficient.
@ Renfield. I am doing it all in epic shifts this last couple of days because from tomorrow I have virtually no time for working on it. Have had a lot of coffee. Right now I am on a mini break to refresh my head.
Still closing in on the goal of a finished draft before I am allowed to sleep. I'm not far off. It's kinda getting late but I think I can do it. What time I do scrape togther after tonight can then be spent double checking and editing and cutting out bits that suck.
@Chester
Plus you look like a badass Kojack. Who loves ya baby? That's Kojack right? I don't fuckin know.
This is fun to watch.
@Rennie: Telly Savalas; Now there is a name for ya. Yule Brenner and Telly Savalas.
@Covey: You a voyeurist?
Kojak, the original bald badass!
Chester, I admit now that I had lice as a kid, and it was horrible (I should move this to laughable admissions). The whole school was crawling with them so you could not escape them. My mom would douse our hair with gas (as in, car gas) and.... no, not set it on fire. She'd cover our heads with a scarf and she'd make us stay like that for minutes (seemed like days) while those little suckers were screaming and dying (and putting up a very itchy fight).
I won't say we're soulmates now, but at the very least licemates.
Liana: What the hell? We just had awesome lice shampoo growing up. I remember my mom used to babysit these girls when my sister and I were young. Their household was pretty dirty, and they always had lice and thus, transferred it to me and my sister. We had to put all our stuffed animals in garbage bags, which was pretty upsetting.
Draft one - DONE.
WHAT THE FUCK, Seriously, I am going to throw my computer out the window. Generally, when you finish a story, and you hit SAVE. and you open the new SAVED document to make sure it looks good, and then you go to bed. When you look at the SAVED document again, should the last 900 words you typed not STILL BE IN THE FUCKING DOCUMENT?? Seriously I am going to throw my fucking computer out the window. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!!
Computers don't lie, they show you exactly what you did. You may have thought you did, but your computer is telling you it was all just a dream.
Ouch. I hate that. Sorry Fist Kitten.
@Liana & Rebecca: I am actually shocked that everyone in the world who has hair isn't walking around with lice. Those fuckers are hell to get rid of. And there is nothing to be ashamed of. Lice don't give a flying fuck if you are Martha Stewart, they still want to suck your blood. I always think it is funny the stigma that accompanies lice; only the unkempt and squalid get lice.
When all you have to do is go to the movies or get on an airplane and lean your head back on a contaminated headrest.
My computer is a lying sack of shit. I need to go back to writing on looseleaf, this is fucking stupid.
Profunda: From my experience, whenever I lose a crunk of work, the stuff I write the next day is usually better. Hopefully the same goes for you, although I'm sure Danny's pretty smug about this right now...
My first draft is done, aside from an integral falling action scene that I really know nothing about at this point. Nevertheless, it's pretty much a first draft. Printin' her out!
I wish i had a goddamn printer. I am too enraged to even write a word right now. I really hope I can get it re-done. I liked what I had a lot. BOOFUCKINHOO!
You still have it Kelly.
@Rebecca: Good job.
I have this one idea that won't shut up eventhough I keep telling it to. So I might just end up going with it if it is still yelling at me on Saturday.
@Chester: It's not all good. I'm kind of having doubts about my piece, but it's too late to go back now.
@Rebecca: I feel like that perpetually.
You got half the week left, it's not too late.
I've got Christa Faust's class assignment due friday and these assignments are pretty tough for me. So probably grinding that out until Friday night then starting on this story, I feel I have a comfortable grasp on this story idea so it seems like it will work out.
How is that class Rennie? That sounds like a good one...
Yeah, sometimes, for me, less time is better when I actually go to exgurgitate a ruminating idea. I am the kind of writer who will buff and polish a piece into non-existence given enough time. I could work on one sentence for years.
The class is a magnifying glass on all my writing weaknesses so far. Crime writing, female characters, dialogue, characterization, reimagining literary tropes. Probably the toughest intensive I've taken so far.
Tough is good. So it sounds like you'd recommend it.
Yes, enthusiastically.
At least the stories aren't due til Sunday, if it was Friday I would quit now.
@Chester, I'm not a peeping tom, but its fun to look in and see the universal writing frustrations, makes me feel like I'm not alone. However, I keep reading these chats and not writing anything. Bad. Those classes sound just what I need. Maybe I can save some cash and take one.
@Prof, I also would throw my computer out the window for not doing what I told it to do. It would land right on top of my printer.
He's here to rip you a new asshole.