I'm seriously starting to consider changing the name of this blog to It's A Bad Case Of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or even It's A Bad Case Of Attention Deficit Disorder. I say this because I am obsessed daily by my desire to write a novel, yet i'm also daily plagued by an inability to want to follow through on any writing goals that I make for myself.
In my last post I talked about summarising what Don Delillo does with his writing to help me propel my own writing forward. Well i'm not going to do that now. Why? Because I don't want to, that's why!
It's not like I made that technique up, i've read several pieces on writing tips that suggest you study your favourite writers to better understand how they do what they do. I've already lost interest in doing that, or at the very least it doesn't feel like that's what i'm looking for at the moment.
I worked today and while I was at work I played out in my mind the possibility of trying again to build more on my gnomes vs. faeries story from Septembers posts. Then I moved onto resolving to really just focusing on building up my skills more by getting back into ficly.com as much as possible. I thought about making a list of every possible story idea i've had over the years, god knows there's been a few of them. None of these felt right though.
A friend of mine texted me today to remind me that it's November writer's month. Which basically involves some website where you sign up and commit to writing a 50,000 word novella over the month, basically equating to 1700 words a day. I remember looking at this last year, but didn't even bother looking up the website for it this year as that's just another avenue that doesn't feel right for me.
I finished reading a great book tonight. Eleven by Mark Watson. A friend of mine was working at a film festival and it was being handed out as part of some gift bags, so she swiped a couple of said gift bags and gave me the book. I don't know if it would have made it onto my radar under any other circumstances, but i'm glad it did.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eleven-Mark-Watson/dp/1847379680
I'm not going to write a review, it's late and i'm tired and the less said about it the better because it's packed full of surprises. Did I mention i'm thinking about changing the name of the blog to It's A Bad Case Of Feeling Tired?
Anyway, after finishing it I was inspired by an idea that I do want to follow through with. I'm going to start with an event, sometimes referred to in literary terms as something happening. Then i'm going to start with a character that this something happened to, and i'm going to interview that character.
This feels right. I don't know why?
Let's see by the next post if this has gotten me anywhere.
Unfocused by Nature.
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