Writing Goal for the Day?

[LettersFromTatyana]

Oh yes, goals? More of that damned Ch 4--and I use the word "damned" advisedly. I feel like VanDerDecken, the Flying Dutchman, condemned to sail forever and make no progress.

Here's a cheering section for you, estragon:

http://i.imgur.com/HT81p.jpg​

They'll keep ringing their cowbells until you finish the chapter. How's that for motivation for a Flying (around the speed skating rink) Dutchman?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I made a bookcase today and thought about my tale. I changed the title to DEATH PANEL: Kill Them With Kindness.

I also changed the arch villain to an old social worker who owns a nursing home, serves on the county commission, and chairs the local ObamaCare Patient Management Service.

The story opens when two of her employees park a blubbering, drooling old man atop a mound of fireants and leave him there while they smoke some weed in the parking lot.

 

[lovecraft68]

I made a bookcase today and thought about my tale. I changed the title to DEATH PANEL: Kill Them With Kindness.

I also changed the arch villain to an old social worker who owns a nursing home, serves on the county commission, and chairs the local ObamaCare Patient Management Service.

The story opens when two of her employees park a blubbering, drooling old man atop a mound of fireants and leave him there while they smoke some weed in the parking lot.

I thought this was supposed to be fiction, that could be any nursing home.

 

[estragon]

Thanks, LfT

I can always use encouragement. Got some more written, but it lacks punch. If at first you don't succeed, swear and throw things.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I thought this was supposed to be fiction, that could be any nursing home.

The only real fiction is humanity.

 

[PennLady]

I can always use encouragement. Got some more written, but it lacks punch. If at first you don't succeed, swear and throw things.

LOL

Estragon, methinks you're a little hard on yourself. Well, more was written on R&B6 last night. We're at the club, almost show time...

 

[lovecraft68]

The only real fiction is humanity.

That is a very good point JB! But, on that note don't you think you're stretching it a bit? Humanity? Elderly care? Are you putting this under Fantasy?

 

[lovecraft68]

I can always use encouragement. Got some more written, but it lacks punch. If at first you don't succeed, swear and throw things.

Just relax and let it flow. Sometimes things are perfect first time out other times it takes work. Don't worry about how good it is until you're done. Get it down and fix it later.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

That is a very good point JB! But, on that note don't you think you're stretching it a bit? Humanity? Elderly care? Are you putting this under Fantasy?

I intend to sell it, dear.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Just relax and let it flow. Sometimes things are perfect first time out other times it takes work. Don't worry about how good it is until you're done. Get it down and fix it later.

I believe every writer needs to let the story come when its ready.

I reason this way: If its a tale you know all about, like the first time you got laid, it'll go down in no time at all, cuz you know the story. Once the story is down whats left is the embroidery and polishing.

If the story is constipated its cuz there is no story, and you gotta wait til you have a complete story.

 

[PennLady]

My writing goal for today, is almost like any day: whatever I can get. However, first it's off to NJ to visit the parents (they had their 44th anniversary yesterday) and my dad's mom. Could try writing in the car, but that's an iffy proposition, mostly b/c of glare. Although I could try long hand... I will probably crochet.

 

[PennLady]

Added some to R&B6.

"High Plains Drifter" is an odd little movie.

 

[SydneyBlake]

If at first you don't succeed, swear and throw things.

LOL, GQ. May I quote you on that?

I'm over half finished with Ch 13. I was just a medium, writing that. Now I gotta give the other half some thought.

 

[lovecraft68]

Finished part three moving to the final part. This thing is quite long, but it will not break up into parts well enough to post as individual chapters.

I was even considering dumping it in novels/novellas due to the length, but problem is it has incest. So that is where it has to stay.

Last night I wrote something that 'got away' from me. I'm sure everyone here knows what I mean. It started one way, turned into something else.

It may be the most twisted thing I have written to date which is saying something. This is what happens when the wife is out of town, I get stuck inside the corridors of my own mind.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

Yesterday was a wash. Mr. Tat--that sneaky little bastard--turned my alarm off when he got out of bed at seven so that I'd get some much-needed sleep. I slept until ten (I can't even remember when I last did that, outside of time changes due to traveling), then took a nap between noon and three, and went to bed at nine. Go me!

Todays goals include:
--Finishing a chapter that my awesome beta reader was nice enough to read through a second time. Damn her for being so good at pinpointing major problems.
--Finish some beta reading.
--Do more work on my Halloween story.

We'll see if this happens. Given yesterday's whirlwind of work (ha!) I'm a bit behind. But I'm hoping!

ETA: Um, Cam Newton is kinda good. He's running circles around the Packer's defense. For the first time during my tenure in the south, the Panthers are watchable. It's weird to get a decent football game. This is not going to be good for my productivity.

Last night I wrote something that 'got away' from me. I'm sure everyone here knows what I mean. It started one way, turned into something else.

For some reason, this happens to me when I write in a car. Every single thing I've ever written in a car has been cut from a story; it's all way, way, way too dark. I think it's something about the depressed feeling I get driving past strip malls and poverty-stricken towns and cities along interstates.

 

[mynameisben]

For some reason, this happens to me when I write in a car. Every single thing I've ever written in a car has been cut from a story; it's all way, way, way too dark. I think it's something about the depressed feeling I get driving past strip malls and poverty-stricken towns and cities along interstates.

I sure hope you do your automotive writing as a PASSENGER!

I can't imagine anything more dangerous than a depressed author, tablet pressed to steering wheel, visualizing and penning erotic sex scenes as she's swerving along the interstate.

...Well, maybe that crazy lady I see now and then zipping along the freeway at 80 mph in her mini cooper, with her bare left foot resting on the driver's side mirror and her hazard lights on. Maybe she's drying her toenails. I don't know, but it scares the hell out of me when I see her other foot up on the dash.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

I sure hope you do your automotive writing as a PASSENGER!

I can't imagine anything more dangerous than a depressed author, tablet pressed to steering wheel, visualizing and penning erotic sex scenes as she's swerving along the interstate.

lol, passenger, yes. Mr. Tat thinks I drive too fast. I can't remember the last time he let me drive when he was in the car. Before we were married, probably.

...Well, maybe that crazy lady I see now and then zipping along the freeway at 80 mph in her mini cooper, with her bare left foot resting on the driver's side mirror and her hazard lights on. Maybe she's drying her toenails. I don't know, but it scares the hell out of me when I see her other foot up on the dash.

I've seen those women, too. Scares the hell out of me, too, though the ones I've seen are sticking their feet out the window. I usually just hope they don't drive a stick!

 

[mynameisben]

I've seen those women, too. Scares the hell out of me, too, though the ones I've seen are sticking their feet out the window. I usually just hope they don't drive a stick!

Driving a stick. LOL!

Maybe that's why she had one foot out the window and the other up on the dash.

 

[lovecraft68]

For some reason, this happens to me when I write in a car. Every single thing I've ever written in a car has been cut from a story; it's all way, way, way too dark. I think it's something about the depressed feeling I get driving past strip malls and poverty-stricken towns and cities along interstates.

I once wrote a lesbian scene while on a flight to Chicago. It came out really well although I have yet to use it here. There was a woman (pretty attractive actually) who was sitting next to me and kept trying to see what I was writing.

My penmanship really sucks (to the point I get stuck on it later myself 'what the hell is that word?') so I don't think she could make it out. But as she would look part of me wondered if she could. So I'm sitting their writing smut and getting presented with a plot bunny as well.

 

[PennLady]

Okay, got beta reads back on two chapters. That should give me something to work on tonight, if I get to work on things. Right now I need to figure out something to do with the chicken I have here... Sigh. I'm tired of trying to figure out what to make.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

Weird. I actually accomplished my goals. The chapter still needs another read through, and I need to come up with one of those awful tag lines, but besides that it's done. Phew.

Now to decide whether to submit the story now, or wait until the story backup clears out. I post so infrequently I'd hate to end up on the third page or something.

Right now I need to figure out something to do with the chicken I have here... Sigh. I'm tired of trying to figure out what to make.

We are so different, PL. Having an excuse to make a "Tatyana creation" is one of my favorite things, and has resulted in some damn good meals, if I do say so myself.

How's the crocheting? Finish anything else?

I can always use encouragement. Got some more written, but it lacks punch. If at first you don't succeed, swear and throw things.

I missed this. PL's right; don't be so hard on yourself. Leave that to me. Bwah-ha-ha!

 

[ILmonamour]

I can always use encouragement. Got some more written, but it lacks punch. If at first you don't succeed, swear and throw things.

Walk away from it and then attack it again with a fresh mind. You can do it

I am pleasantly surprised with today. A little shopping, some writing, a lot of caramel corn eating. Shameless. I'm taking a power break because I don't want to screw up the ending of this chapter by 'rushing' it. It's exciting though and I should be done in another hour....fingers crossed!

Hope y'all had a fabulous weekend, it was garbage here with rain--but perfect for staying inside.

 

[PennLady]

Weird. I actually accomplished my goals. The chapter still needs another read through, and I need to come up with one of those awful tag lines, but besides that it's done. Phew.

Now to decide whether to submit the story now, or wait until the story backup clears out. I post so infrequently I'd hate to end up on the third page or something.

Ooh, can't wait to read the finished product. I hate tag lines, too. I find I often want to just put the same thing in, as some authors do, but then ... I can't.

We are so different, PL. Having an excuse to make a "Tatyana creation" is one of my favorite things, and has resulted in some damn good meals, if I do say so myself.

How's the crocheting? Finish anything else?

I'm just not that kind of cook, generally (or crocheter, for that matter). I really prefer a recipe, or at least to do something someone's shown me. Once in a while, I will make up my own recipe out of whatever's on hand -- and I will even make up my own crochet patterns -- but it often seems I never have any fun staples in the pantry. I'm not a great spur-of-the-moment cook (although I'm not a bad cook in general).

I finished the main character of the "bread" cartoon, complete with his little bottle of milk. Now I just need to do the Charcoal Bread (poor guy was in the oven for three hours!), and I'll have a relatively complete cast. Although I want to redo the little roll and try to make it more oblong. Then my daughter wants more totoros, in different colors.

 

[GreyRook]

Right now my big goal is to finish the two storys I have in the works.

I ahve one that is half through, which also happens to be the big one I have planned for my writign group, and the other is just a pet project I've been nursing for about a month.

The Bog one for my writing group is a sci-fi story based in a pre-existing world, and the group Im in (including myself) are big fans of said world, so we decided as a group project that we should put together a series of fan fictions for the univers and put them all together in a collective book.

As for my pet project Im trying my hand at a western story. It's taken me a long time to put everything together and started writing about a month ago, and my big push is to get it finished here soon...only problem is I don't want to rush it and ruin the story.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Read more of WHAT DO YOU SAY AFTER YOU SAY HELLO? by Eric Berne MD.

The primary existential question is, WHAT BECOMES OF A PERSON LIKE ME? (actually your characters), and the question is answered by one of 4 possible creeds: I'M OK, YOURE OK; I'M OK YOURE NOT OK; I'M NOT OK, BUT YOURE OK, and I'M NOT OK, AND YOURE NOT OK.

Most drama involves 3 players, though: VICTIM, HERO, VILLAIN. So there are 100s of variations of the basic creeds. And if all the players are OK you got no drama, and your tale is bout as flat as old Coke.

I've studied Eric Berne since 1972 but it doesnt hurt to fortify the brain cells occasionally.