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Elder Harridan x-hankster
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Poohbah
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#103
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If it helps, even before I got together with my fiancé (we were friends 1st), he witnessed me go through a lot of family abuse... never judged me for it, only my abusers. Hugs. The self hatred isn't earned. |
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Writing my way through...
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#104
sending hugs to all who want.
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#105
I’m determined to finish my NaNoWrimo novel this month — I got up to 33k words in November but then I had a solid week of work and fell off the wagon. I want to get to 50k by the end of the month (during which I do not have any shifts scheduled!) so it should be totally doable.
The issue is that in order to finish, I have to go back and re-read what I’ve already written... which is sort of embarrassing and sometimes just plain bad. But I’m going to give it a shot, and try to get 1k words in today! |
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Tweaky Dog
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#106
Good luck, Chihiro. I kind of know the feeling. I got to 10,000 words on my project recently, and it seems to have stopped me in my tracks. I hope you are able to make your goal.
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Writing my way through...
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#107
We have very little work right now (not surprising, it's almost Easter weekend so people aren't writing in very much this week) so they offered VTO (voluntary time off) today. I finished the messages I had been assigned, made sure I was comfortably above quota for the day which I was, and took advantage of the offer about 30 minutes ago since today's my Friday. Starting the weekend early! Woohoo!
I am feeling so much better about everything in general than I had been last week and prior. H and I had a really good discussion yesterday where we cleared the air about a few things and that was really helpful. I feel lighter today. |
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Child of a lesser god
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#108
I don't know that I would worry too much about word counts and think you're failing if you don't hit them. They're just a marker set by publishers and the novel-writing month people. (And they pay the price because now a lot of people send novels to publishers after NaNoWriMo thinking all they needed to do was hit the word count and they're a professional novelist.)
To me what really matters is done and complete within itself. And then draft and redraft till you're sick of it for quality. (Also known as why it takes me so long to finish a story.) Plus, as the Greeks said, μεγὰ βιβλίον, μεγὰ κακόν (big book, big evil--no one told Stephen King, alas). |
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Writing my way through...
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#109
Personally, I am glad no one told Stephen King. I love his "big books" and when the complete and uncut version of The Stand came out, I was thrilled!!
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#110
Just got our 2021/22 symphony season lineup. Hoping for a normal concert season once again. I have missed singing perhaps most of all.
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Writing my way through...
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#111
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Good luck chihiro! You can do it! I think it's wonderful to get the words/ideas on paper, no matter how 'bad' you might think they are the first time through. That's what edits/rewrites are for.... I think it's more important to get the story out first, then you can improve it. The way I see it is, I feel like when I try too hard to write it perfectly the first time out, I forget my ideas and fall out of creativity and into something else entirely and then I give up. That's my mission now. To just write - just let the story flow out of me whether it even has punctuation or not let alone perfect grammar. Like when I write down my dreams. Like when I write my poems. It's interesting, when I write poetry, I'm most definitely in another place and sometimes when I read them back, I don't even remember writing parts of them which I think is mega cool when it happens. But when I am using my dreams to create stories from, that's where I forget to just let the story come and not worry about the other. I'm rambling. Sorry. |
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#112
Speaking of writing poems, it's National Poetry Month again! I shall again attempt the poem a day challenge. Just wrote #1.
I'm off now to go decide on what poetic form I shall use for tomorrow's poem! I love April. |
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#113
I prefer the second draft and beyond editing. Crafting each sentence to be precise and concise. I am a fan of brevity. I hate the plot part.
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#114
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No wonder you are a Beckett fan. |
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#115
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But I remember one bizarre teacher in Grad school that insisted each sentence have 7 words and each paragraph 4 sentences. It was bizarre. I was like, "What?" I don't remember what class she taught but I got an A in it. I just had to be very careful with my wording and say exactly what I meant in seven words per sentence. __________________ Dum Spiro Spero IC XC NIKA |
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#116
Therapy with my T on Saturday. Not sure what I am going to talk about this time. I always have this problem when I am not in crisis. I can't think of anything to say.
There is one thing. My former T appears to be back to practicing and I contacted her to see if she would take me back as a client. (We stopped because of her MS.) But it's been six days and she hasn't responded so I sent another email to see if she a) got the first one and b) thinks it is a good idea I go back to her or not. But I don't know how to bring this up to current T especially because I don't know if Former T wants to see me again. I'd practically do anything to see former T again (which sort of tells me it's a bad idea to see her again but I know I would anyway) but I don't want to hurt current T's feelings if Former T doesn't even want me back. Which I wouldn't blame her if she didn't (oh my feelings would be hurt but I wouldn't blame her) because I was probably a needy client who sucked dry all her emotional resources. But I'm not the same person I was 2.5 years ago. Argh. I don't know. __________________ Dum Spiro Spero IC XC NIKA |
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i guess i just really get into the characters, you know? i like feeling like i have met and spent time with real people, like i was actually with them, when i finish one of his books. i dunno. I hate it when I love the story that's being told but the book is so dang short that i'm left with a big hole and wanting to know more about the people in it. also probably why i don't go out of my way to read short stories in magazines. I'm always left annoyingly wanting. haha does that mean i'm a noseypants? Or maybe it means I lead a boring life. |
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#118
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7 words per sentence, 4 sentence paragraphs? I would totally fail at that, probably. I can imagine it was not easy. Feels weird to do it even once. |
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Writing my way through...
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#119
omg i just realized it's only 1pm and i have all afternoon free! I'm going to go make those brioche buns again this time with the right flour. Pic to come later.
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#120
Yeah, Artie, you did it very well. In class you would have done well. It takes planning and some precise thinking. After all, I really wanted an A.
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