Showing posts with label idea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idea. Show all posts

Friday, September 21, 2012

Return from break

Daily Goal: 500 words.
Yesterday I wrote 0 words.
Sundays/Stories finished: 2/0.

A few days ago I was on my way to bed when I realized that I hadn't updated my blog. I normally rush out a post at that point, but that night I thought, What the heck, no one will miss one blog post. The next night, same scenario, it was rather easier to miss the update. Easier still the third night.

So I have finally ended the bad habit and sit here in front of my tablet and keyboard. Those are the only good news, however, on the writing front. I have written almost nothing these last few days. I did have a good idea for a story and the only serious writing I have done is a synopsis and a few notes concerning that idea.

The idea is reminiscent of the first story I never wrote when I first started this blog, about two boys who want to cross a river, but there is a nice sinister twist this time around and I can't wait for a nice quite time when I can sit down and write a draft.

On the non-literary front all is well, but hectic. We are still unpacking and getting everything sorted. Our apartment is much smaller than my parents's. All the stuff that didn't take up that much space at their apartment now floods this one. Whenever we clean one room, we move all the stuff into the other room and then we move it back again to clean the... And so on.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

A day of ideas

Daily Goal: 500 words.
Yesterday I wrote 0 words.
Sundays/Stories Finished: 1/0.

As expected the day went by quickly. There was not much time between taking care of the baby and getting stuff ready to move tomorrow.

I did finish a chapter more of How to Write Short Stories for Magazines, by Sophie King. The chapter was about getting ideas and writing them down. After the read I went for a walk with the stroller (baby carriage) - my girl likes to nap at about 9 o'clock in the morning and doing it in the stroller gives her mother a nice break. I had plenty of ideas while out walking and I wrote them down in a notepad I keep in the stroller for the purpose. I didn't count that into the daily word count.

I feel tired now after a long day. Tomorrow offers more of the same. I have started reading a novel as well: The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe. The author and the series of which that book is number three deserves a warm recommendation to anyone interested in science fiction, but I am too tired to go into details today.