A Ranting Journal
Mar. 29th, 2011 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drownedinlightYou know how sometimes, you want to write, but it just doesn't want to come out of you? Especially when you are trying to do something different that you've done (and no, one of the people in my Creative Writing Class, just because it's science fiction, or fantasy, does not mean that people can't relate to it, it means try and suspend your disbelief and get a little out of your comfort zone, and look at the writing and the story, not just elements of it, and then maybe I'll do the same. Gah, now I'm spouting an eye for an eye), like maybe plan out your characters a little more thoroughly, instead of just going into something a little blind and letting them grow on you. Especially when you have just finished a story, and don't want to start another, or rather do not know how to start another, when you'll be starting one of those crazy endevours that will take up the whole month in a few days, and don't know if you'll be able to end something that quickly.
Even though all of that was in second person, it was all about me. I am of course talking about Script Frenzy, which is like NaNoWriMo, but in April, and with scripts. The goal there is to write a 100 page script in the space of the month. It can be any kind of script (mine's going to be for that of a comic book), and about anything (kind of like NaNo, where, yes, you can write an Erotic Novel, and they even gave you a forum to talk about it). Mine is about some super powered teenagers, who were also government experiments, so nothing too new there, though I'm hoping to work with it. I was also talking about the fact that I finished my fic yesterday and since Script Frenzy starts on Friday, I'm a little reluctant to write something in that space of time, just because I am afraid that it might be a little much on top of Script Frenzy to try and finish something (and Lord knows, my short stories are a little lengthy on the first draft).
Plus, because of the way comic book scripts work (you write the page number then the panel, and then describe all of the action before any of the characters make dialogue), I'm a little conflicted to try this for a writing project. Because I mean, even the people who branched off of Nano to do SF realized that a script is more of a page project than a word project. I guess it would not be too difficult, as most of the things I would be writing are farely valid and just written another way in prose. Also the smaller things, like the page number and the panel numbers are fairly small, so I could probably avoid having too major of a problem with that, by just writting a little over two thousand words like I normally do anyway.
So anyway, didn't want to writes something, so I thought, hey, why not do some character studies for the next few days and really get to know the group of people I will be playing with. Keira, the main character, because I follow her around the most in my head, is the one I know the best, and I still had trouble getting to five hundred words before I began to describe her powers. And even then, I think I only wrote about one hundred words about her powers (okay, so it is closer to two hundred, but still), and I mean, do I really not know these people that well.
To be fair, I have only done something thinking about them. After I failed at script frenzy last year, I really stopped writing about them, because for some reason, they just don't want to be written about in regular prose. I mean, that's what inspired me to write it in a comic book form anyway. And maybe it's just because a lot of "superhero" type powered people are written about in comic book form, but I wrote a fairly successful short story about teenagers with powers just recently. There's just something about the whole story that makes it feel like a comic book, I guess.
Then, there's school. Ah, school. I'm still on my break withdrawl, in which I probably did not have as much hoework as I should have due to the fact that my com professor has still not given back a marked up copy of something I have revise and add onto in a week, and he gave us readings over the break that he did not tell us he was going to post on the last day of class, (and apparently in an email that none of us ever got) along with another reading that he just posted around the Sunday/Monday area. I have read neither of these, nor one of the ones from before the break (mostly because I chose to study for my midterm instead, which I got a C on). So yeah, seriously reconsidering taking Comm as my second major now, but I've decided that I'm going to take just one class with it next semester with (hopefully) a different professor, to see if I like it any better. If not, I might try one more time, but I might be done at that point.
I also have other homework, which is not too terribly difficult, just needs time to do it, and ah, time, what a wonderful concept. But other than Comm, I like all of my classes.
Then there's the matter of scholarships. I still need to write a full essay for one of them, and fill out the application for the other, and revise a third, and I'm having trouble finding both time and motivation. I feel like I have so much time ahead of me that just nothing is getting done, and I don't have a rhythm to get me through my funk. It doesn't help that I fully realize that if I don't get this money, I am not coming back to Hollins next year. And my mom was really great and paid the four hundred dollar deposit and everything.
I just really need to make a list and get some things done. That will be my goal for tomorrow night (I guess I will have to tell Friend A [who invited me to a play] that I just need to stay in, and maybe put off going shampoo and phone battery shopping until Saturday, depending on how much I get done tomorrow and Friday [and if you are wondering why I am not including Thursday in this estimate, it's largely because I have very little time between class and everything on Thursdays and then I have an hour and a half block of orchestra later on at night, which makes me tired and wipes me out usually] and I should find the motivation to get my long list of stuff done, and it usually works better with a longer list).
On another note, Dante's Inferno? Really quite hilarious, thank you for asking. I mean I get how most of this is serious, and probably some of it is a translation thing, but with line like, "Where is he, the unripe turd!" who wouldn't find this funny? Probably people without a sense of humor (yes there is a lot of death and punishment in the inferno, but I stand my by turd line).
Piece WC: 1259
3/29/11 WC: 2002
Project WC: 64016
Even though all of that was in second person, it was all about me. I am of course talking about Script Frenzy, which is like NaNoWriMo, but in April, and with scripts. The goal there is to write a 100 page script in the space of the month. It can be any kind of script (mine's going to be for that of a comic book), and about anything (kind of like NaNo, where, yes, you can write an Erotic Novel, and they even gave you a forum to talk about it). Mine is about some super powered teenagers, who were also government experiments, so nothing too new there, though I'm hoping to work with it. I was also talking about the fact that I finished my fic yesterday and since Script Frenzy starts on Friday, I'm a little reluctant to write something in that space of time, just because I am afraid that it might be a little much on top of Script Frenzy to try and finish something (and Lord knows, my short stories are a little lengthy on the first draft).
Plus, because of the way comic book scripts work (you write the page number then the panel, and then describe all of the action before any of the characters make dialogue), I'm a little conflicted to try this for a writing project. Because I mean, even the people who branched off of Nano to do SF realized that a script is more of a page project than a word project. I guess it would not be too difficult, as most of the things I would be writing are farely valid and just written another way in prose. Also the smaller things, like the page number and the panel numbers are fairly small, so I could probably avoid having too major of a problem with that, by just writting a little over two thousand words like I normally do anyway.
So anyway, didn't want to writes something, so I thought, hey, why not do some character studies for the next few days and really get to know the group of people I will be playing with. Keira, the main character, because I follow her around the most in my head, is the one I know the best, and I still had trouble getting to five hundred words before I began to describe her powers. And even then, I think I only wrote about one hundred words about her powers (okay, so it is closer to two hundred, but still), and I mean, do I really not know these people that well.
To be fair, I have only done something thinking about them. After I failed at script frenzy last year, I really stopped writing about them, because for some reason, they just don't want to be written about in regular prose. I mean, that's what inspired me to write it in a comic book form anyway. And maybe it's just because a lot of "superhero" type powered people are written about in comic book form, but I wrote a fairly successful short story about teenagers with powers just recently. There's just something about the whole story that makes it feel like a comic book, I guess.
Then, there's school. Ah, school. I'm still on my break withdrawl, in which I probably did not have as much hoework as I should have due to the fact that my com professor has still not given back a marked up copy of something I have revise and add onto in a week, and he gave us readings over the break that he did not tell us he was going to post on the last day of class, (and apparently in an email that none of us ever got) along with another reading that he just posted around the Sunday/Monday area. I have read neither of these, nor one of the ones from before the break (mostly because I chose to study for my midterm instead, which I got a C on). So yeah, seriously reconsidering taking Comm as my second major now, but I've decided that I'm going to take just one class with it next semester with (hopefully) a different professor, to see if I like it any better. If not, I might try one more time, but I might be done at that point.
I also have other homework, which is not too terribly difficult, just needs time to do it, and ah, time, what a wonderful concept. But other than Comm, I like all of my classes.
Then there's the matter of scholarships. I still need to write a full essay for one of them, and fill out the application for the other, and revise a third, and I'm having trouble finding both time and motivation. I feel like I have so much time ahead of me that just nothing is getting done, and I don't have a rhythm to get me through my funk. It doesn't help that I fully realize that if I don't get this money, I am not coming back to Hollins next year. And my mom was really great and paid the four hundred dollar deposit and everything.
I just really need to make a list and get some things done. That will be my goal for tomorrow night (I guess I will have to tell Friend A [who invited me to a play] that I just need to stay in, and maybe put off going shampoo and phone battery shopping until Saturday, depending on how much I get done tomorrow and Friday [and if you are wondering why I am not including Thursday in this estimate, it's largely because I have very little time between class and everything on Thursdays and then I have an hour and a half block of orchestra later on at night, which makes me tired and wipes me out usually] and I should find the motivation to get my long list of stuff done, and it usually works better with a longer list).
On another note, Dante's Inferno? Really quite hilarious, thank you for asking. I mean I get how most of this is serious, and probably some of it is a translation thing, but with line like, "Where is he, the unripe turd!" who wouldn't find this funny? Probably people without a sense of humor (yes there is a lot of death and punishment in the inferno, but I stand my by turd line).
Piece WC: 1259
3/29/11 WC: 2002
Project WC: 64016
