Busy Week…
Posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010Third times the charm, is what they say, so I’m going to see if its true.
This week was very nice for relaxation, but not very good for writing. See, as much as I would like it to be, Writing is still just a hobby for me, meaning that I do it in addition to my day job. Usually, I find time to write on my breaks at work, lugging my laptop from home with me. Whenever I’m not exhausted from work (and it’s not November) I write/edit in the evenings as well. I have all of the additional commitments of other people as well. Friends to visit, and I play in a few different role-playing games (which everyone knows is a time-waster of epic proportions, no matter how fun it is to do) and I actually went on a date with my husband to go see a movie at the cheap theatre (FYI – Do not go to see Clash of the Titans if you have more than a passing interest in Greek and Roman Mythology. It will drive you mad…). As well, I’m trying to plan a trip for October as well which is a going to be fun all to itself.
So, not much time for writing or posting, as you can probably imagine. Nevertheless, the week has been wonderful for the art of writing, if not writing itself. You see, I suddenly realized that the chapter I was going to post up of a book that I am going to posting online, was the wrong first chapter. It’s a wonderful chapter for character building, but doesn’t have a really good opening page or line. So, all of my editing for the past week has been somewhat wasted, and I am editing a different thing to put online instead. I should have a two to three page opening partial of a chapter up tomorrow at the latest.
Oh, a word of warning… When I’m posting my chapters, I think that I’m going to post them in 2-3 pieces per chapter so that its not too much to read all at once. Let me know what you think about this way of posting the chapters. Let me know if it’s a good amount to read through or if you’d rather have all the chapter at once.
Oh, and on a side note, I realized that sometimes our minds will hear one thing, and immediately translate it to something else. It’s the same reason most women will hear you ask if they want to eat, and they’ll take it as a personal affront to their weight (to take an oft joked about example). For me, it’s being told that I can’t do everything that I want to. My mind always translates this to “You’re lazy… and if you weren’t lazy, you could do all of it.” Definitely a weird sort of thing to realize. Anybody else have this type of experience? What words does your mind translate or add qualifiers to?
Tags: Clash of the Titans, Mythology, Novels, Psychology, Schedules, Sociology, Writing
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