In which she is embarrasingly productive
May. 17th, 2011 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeborahEvery now and then I come up with this brilliant plan that I'm going to write a short-short every day -- just dash it off and let it be rubbish as long as I get to type "END" before the end of each day -- for a month.
Typically I'm enamoured of this brilliant plan for about as long as it takes to write half a page or sometimes less on day 1's short story. So really it wasn't at all a surprise that on Saturday I wrote a couple hundred words of a slice-of-life about a lunar tour group and then ran out of Saturday. It was slightly more surprising that I wrote another few hundred words of it on Sunday, and even more surprising that I finished the thing (at just over 900 words) on Monday.
But the really hornswaggling thing is that this morning I started short story number two and finished it by lunch time (just over 500 words) and then, while sitting at the bus-stop this evening, came up with an idea for "tomorrow's" story, promptly started it, and then finished it (just over 400 words) on the way to choir.
And I had some time left over to read another chapter of my current book-in-reading.
I'm not quite sure yet what to do with these three pieces: put them online (flocked or otherwise, for critique or just enjoyment) or hang on to them for a while until I've got suficient distance to be able to tell which of them are salvageable.
In the meantime, a tentative revelation: it's possible that I've been able to write these precisely because they just occurred to me and I just wrote them; whereas all the most recent stories that I've tried writing and got seriously stuck on are ones that I've wanted to write for a long time, so have Expectations of. Which is a shame if true, because I do in fact still want to write those. I probably need to learn how to manage Expectations. In the meantime, getting back into practice just writing will be an excellent start.
Typically I'm enamoured of this brilliant plan for about as long as it takes to write half a page or sometimes less on day 1's short story. So really it wasn't at all a surprise that on Saturday I wrote a couple hundred words of a slice-of-life about a lunar tour group and then ran out of Saturday. It was slightly more surprising that I wrote another few hundred words of it on Sunday, and even more surprising that I finished the thing (at just over 900 words) on Monday.
But the really hornswaggling thing is that this morning I started short story number two and finished it by lunch time (just over 500 words) and then, while sitting at the bus-stop this evening, came up with an idea for "tomorrow's" story, promptly started it, and then finished it (just over 400 words) on the way to choir.
And I had some time left over to read another chapter of my current book-in-reading.
I'm not quite sure yet what to do with these three pieces: put them online (flocked or otherwise, for critique or just enjoyment) or hang on to them for a while until I've got suficient distance to be able to tell which of them are salvageable.
In the meantime, a tentative revelation: it's possible that I've been able to write these precisely because they just occurred to me and I just wrote them; whereas all the most recent stories that I've tried writing and got seriously stuck on are ones that I've wanted to write for a long time, so have Expectations of. Which is a shame if true, because I do in fact still want to write those. I probably need to learn how to manage Expectations. In the meantime, getting back into practice just writing will be an excellent start.
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Date: 2011-05-18 05:02 am (UTC)