WEEKLY CHECK-IN: Tickety boxes and a couple of questions

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1824744]

Now that you've started hyperventilating thinking about your story, are any particular songs coming to mind, like "Please release me (Let me go)" or "A Whumping hunting we will go?"

Any particular writing/vidding/drawing survival must-haves at your house? I have to drink pots and pots of tea (probably explains why I always have the lads consuming copious amounts) and my mate Cherry has to listen to the Bee Gees... don't ask.

Or, if none of this foolishness appeals to you, feel free to just check-in and let us know how it's going.
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Comments

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

It's quite hard to explain. Quite often there are huge chunks of text which just literally need typing. That's more usual for non-fiction of all kinds, including this reply. More frequently for stories there is a kind of film - like an 'episode' - that I can play and replay in my head and then describe when I type. Plans tend to be silent movies and dialogue is added in the first (in-head)draft. Once I'm typing I might tweak vocabulary or sentence structure but the story flows. I can only say that the internal work is quite hard - it's just that it doesn't have to be done at a keyboard or with a notebook.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I should be fine - it's a routine op. margaret_r can update people if necessary if I disappear for any length of time. *g*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I'm strictly chronological - can't cope with jumping around at all!! Some people are linear thinkers and some aren't - fascinating!

I know novelists who write the way you do and their work always appears to be seamless when it's finished. I think that's down to good beta/editing.

Even a linear writer like me sometimes has chunks that have to be rewritten (e.g. because you suddenly discover anachronisms) and then you have to read the whole thing through to make sure there are no clunky transitions. One of the problems is repetition - feeling a need to explain something, whether it's a description or background, or whatever, and then you find you've done the same in the bit you were rewriting/inserting...

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Well OF COURSE it goes to Baldrick, never a finer turnip written... Erm... *g*

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I shall quote my mother on the subject: Iced tea is an abomination and a sin against god.

Yes, she's where I get my sense of humour, thanks for noticing. *g*

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I hate to admit this but I hear music all night along. Certain songs play in my head while I'm asleep. Sometimes they have film with them; sometimes not. I've got vidding ideas and story ideas from my dreams. :)

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Well, I love it either way. So there.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I'm English, but I live in America and it took coming here to realize how totally tea dependent I was. :D

Oh, and I still talk about the weather all the time, it's just that those chats now involve hurricanes and tornadoes as well.

No, you don't have a problem, particularly as you now have people to chat with about these very important subjects.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Ah, obviously one of those colonial types. *g*

If you grew up on hot tea and never tasted Southern sweet tea until you were an adult it's just. Plain. Weird.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I grew up in the North and would never have had a tea experience if not for my best friend in HS. Her mum was from the UK and we had tea there every afternoon (plus other British goodies). That's where I got my love of hot tea and sweet juicy oranges. Plus back then imported biscuits were a rare treat. I loved seeing her bring out the tin from her family back home. There was never a tea bag in my Italian coffee drinking house, I can't remember when I first drank iced tea but I was certainly not at home! :)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I was in Ohio, my first day in America. Someone asked if I'd like some tea. I said yes please and was handed a tall glass full of brown water and ice. I was surprised, to say the least, and it tasted awful.

One of our neighbours kept an eye on our house when I went home at Christmas and we brought him back a large box of English chocolates. He, his wife and his three kids have all mentioned them every time I've seen them since. *g*

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I don't know Baldrick...hmmm

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

Ive always started at the beginning and written to the end--I edit as I go along and once I get to the end, someone else edits. I rarely write scenes out of order. I do love the action scenes and tell myself firmly that I have to write the 'boring bits' (between action and exciting scenes) as interestingly as the action or no one will want to read them.

I can't write an outline to save my life and usually know the beginning of the story before I start and an approximation of the end. The middle sections just build on one another until we all arrive at the end, slightly surprised to be there!

My mother was a huge hot tea drinker, so I followed suit. I live for tea--it can be hot, cold, milky, Chai latte--however. I like tea.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

*g* It could only be Baldrick.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

You haven't really lived unless you've watched Blackadder. *g* Baldrick is Blackadder's sidekick (Blackadder being played by Rowan Atkinson)

Here's an example of the sort of 'cunning plan' Baldrick usually comes up with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACnqI1l4I9s

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

I'm horrified at you mum's feelings about iced tea. *g* Made properly it can be nectar of the gods on a hot day.

*g* Mums are very good for passing on the humour gene.

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :) It really needs a lotta work, though. :)

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

No worries! There's no saying it's any good, and you may write a masterpiece. :) So no need to be jealous... :) Though I'm a bit jealous of your gorgeous icon, I must admit! *g <3

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

That's good! I'm glad it's routine. :)

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Brokencheek and Soldier Boy? >;)

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you're that much further ahead - that's what I'm jealous of. *g*

Feel free to steal it if you want. Someone else gave it to me - it was made by the lovely and talented norfolkdumpling

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're talking; they just haven't been properly introduced.

But yeah, it'll have to be some sort of nickname. Just have to think up one... or, rather, two.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

I know you're kidding, but - LOL, this could actually work!

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Oh, ta! :D I would love to steal...er...borrow it. :D Hope your story is going well. Just realied last night my story probably isn't as finished as I thought. o_O;;

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Well, let me put it this way... It was a serious suggestion if you liked it, a joke if you thought it was dumb. *g *blushes*