Summer sleeps, Autumn wakes.

[smokingboot]

I'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.

Comments

[hooverpig.livejournal.com]

How are you at dialogue? I was actually just about to post to Facebook to see if I could find a good dialogue writer for the TV show I want to pitch.

I had someone who volunteered a year back, but first they were flaky, and now too busy to help out!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I'm OK at dialogue, though I guess as ever these things depend on what you want. Let me know, and I'll help out if I can!