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Blathering.
Aug. 1st, 2009 04:20 pmFor some time now I've been trying to decide what I want to do with this journal. It's simple and pretty, and I doubt very much that the flist here is often checked, and so I've been thinking that it might be a nice place to actually write about writing.
I often want to do that on my LJ, and I think when I began my LJ it's what I thought I was there to do. But honestly, LJ is the place where I stay in touch with my friends, and what I have to say about writing seems largely irrelevant.
And too, a great deal of what I have to say about writing... well, everyone's inner writer is different. And while I am ravenously interested in the process of other writers, I never want to post about my own. Partly that's because I feel like, who would care? Isn't it a bit self-involved to imagine that other people would care about how I write or why I make the decisions that I do when I'm writing? And partly because we ARE all so different, I never want my little musings to sound like pronouncements, which I feel they probably would.
For instance: today, while procrastinating, I started looking at some false starts that I made on various stories. And I found this rather interesting little diatribe that I began the day before I started writing fanfic.
I'm putting it under the cut for its general annoyingness.
( prepare to be blown away by my self-importance... )Well, I was right insofar as I was about to become, again, a card-carrying member of the self-aggrandizing. LOL.
But it's funny to me that this was what I wrote the day before fanfic and I took hold of one another in a death grip. It was almost as if I knew it was coming.
In any case, I've been thinking of sharing some false starts and how they came to be abandoned, and some thoughts on things I've written--what Hobgoblinn taught me to think of as fic postmortems.
Needless to say, I will NOT be offended if you skip them. I think I'm working up to starting a longer story, and I think that all this introspection is probably just my way of talking myself into it.
Carry on.
I often want to do that on my LJ, and I think when I began my LJ it's what I thought I was there to do. But honestly, LJ is the place where I stay in touch with my friends, and what I have to say about writing seems largely irrelevant.
And too, a great deal of what I have to say about writing... well, everyone's inner writer is different. And while I am ravenously interested in the process of other writers, I never want to post about my own. Partly that's because I feel like, who would care? Isn't it a bit self-involved to imagine that other people would care about how I write or why I make the decisions that I do when I'm writing? And partly because we ARE all so different, I never want my little musings to sound like pronouncements, which I feel they probably would.
For instance: today, while procrastinating, I started looking at some false starts that I made on various stories. And I found this rather interesting little diatribe that I began the day before I started writing fanfic.
I'm putting it under the cut for its general annoyingness.
( prepare to be blown away by my self-importance... )Well, I was right insofar as I was about to become, again, a card-carrying member of the self-aggrandizing. LOL.
But it's funny to me that this was what I wrote the day before fanfic and I took hold of one another in a death grip. It was almost as if I knew it was coming.
In any case, I've been thinking of sharing some false starts and how they came to be abandoned, and some thoughts on things I've written--what Hobgoblinn taught me to think of as fic postmortems.
Needless to say, I will NOT be offended if you skip them. I think I'm working up to starting a longer story, and I think that all this introspection is probably just my way of talking myself into it.
Carry on.
