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Oct. 17th, 2012 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootI'm waking up.
It feels like a long time since I wrote and I have grown bad at it.
One thing I liked, my agent wasn't so sure of, haven't looked at it since. Maybe I should, there's a lot of text there to just throw away.
I tried to write something fairy recently. It's rubbish, stilted, cold, has one excellent part to it, and the rest just doesn't quite gel.
Now I have another great idea, but that's all it is, a seed. I try writing it, it is hard because the genre isn't natural to me. But it is an interesting controversial premis... I find myself facing the gruesome task of creating a plot arc before I write, because this will not write itself. This will be hard, unlike a stream of consciousness piece that just came to me, which did write itself and, though it needs editing, is much more my style, strange, intricate, mythical. But what is it exactly? I don't know. I never seem to know.
So what do I do now? The good news is that I am waking again as a writer. The rest is a porridge of chaos.
It feels like a long time since I wrote and I have grown bad at it.
One thing I liked, my agent wasn't so sure of, haven't looked at it since. Maybe I should, there's a lot of text there to just throw away.
I tried to write something fairy recently. It's rubbish, stilted, cold, has one excellent part to it, and the rest just doesn't quite gel.
Now I have another great idea, but that's all it is, a seed. I try writing it, it is hard because the genre isn't natural to me. But it is an interesting controversial premis... I find myself facing the gruesome task of creating a plot arc before I write, because this will not write itself. This will be hard, unlike a stream of consciousness piece that just came to me, which did write itself and, though it needs editing, is much more my style, strange, intricate, mythical. But what is it exactly? I don't know. I never seem to know.
So what do I do now? The good news is that I am waking again as a writer. The rest is a porridge of chaos.
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Date: 2012-10-17 05:13 pm (UTC)I had someone who volunteered a year back, but first they were flaky, and now too busy to help out!
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Date: 2012-10-17 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-17 07:04 pm (UTC)Maybe change the format of the idea you like but which didn't gel with agent - try writing it as a screenplay? Film short? Your TV work gives you an insight into the visual medium that you could exploit.
I've been getting to grips with this visual format as a change from the audio and it is liberating and constraining in all sorts of interesting new ways. I never did get on with prose myself, anyway.
Changing genre to one outside comfort zone sounds immensely bracing.
All good.
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Date: 2012-10-17 08:25 pm (UTC)I think the one that didn't gel with my agent suffered from being too short and fragmenting away from a strong beginning into a weaker and rather confusing story. It is definitely a novel, I just made it the wrong one. It needs re-writing.
The fairy idea might, ironically work very well as a screenplay, I can see it quite easily.
And the big idea, well, that needs planning. How I hate planning!