updatish stuff

[vaznetti]

I accidentally changed my journal style, and then had to find something I liked well enough to keep for the moment. I need the text to be black-on-white, or something near enough to that, otherwise I get cranky.

So, I am writing this story, and it is about two-thirds done, or maybe a bit more than that. It's about 5000 words now, which is pretty long for me. But I keep looking at it and thinking that in the hands of some other writer, this would totally be a novella, at least. I just don't know what do do about that. Where do all the other words come from?

Anyway, I think I am just going to have to go ahead and finish this draft this weekend, which will at least keep it from being Kripke'd any more (which, believe me, I started it last spring, and that has been a problem). Because I really need to get the yuletide story rolling, and right now it's just fits and starts and disconnected themes. Funny enough, the missing pieces? are all plot and mytharc. I roll my eyes at my own craziness.

Comments

[aliskye.livejournal.com]

The other words sneak in in the middle of night and drop their dirty socks on the floor and smoke cigars on your couch. :)

[vaznetti]

Ha! Now I'm looking at it and thinking, you know, maybe this story is too long. I bet I could cut a couple scenes without any trouble...

[anglopollyanna.livejournal.com]

Where do all the other words come from? That's what I thought the entire time I was writing :-)

It's like everyone is growing sunflowers in pots, and you water and feed yours, and you end up with a tall, pretty sunflower and you like it, and then you take it to the sunflower moot and it's about 10ft shorter than everybody else's!!! And then you decided to stick to violets.

(And possibly that simile didn't quite work, but it's good to know other people have word lack.)

[vaznetti]

No, I understand your simile exactly. And it's not like all I do is write vignettes! I have plot! I just have... well, not very wordy plots, I guess.

It's a mystery to me, really.