1001 Posts.
I'm not sure what to do about this. I so intended to do a special 1K post, but missed it.
Change direction? Continue with this forum as daily writing practice until I can get novelizing? Maybe write fiction fragments, as further practice?
Actually, I like that last one. Desensitize me to the strain of making stuff up. I've gotten too much into the mindset of charting and incident reports, dry and depersonalized, unemotional, opinionless. I may need to tell tales, lie for the sake of the story. Maybe some, say 250 word, stories.
Practice, well, that was what this blog was all about. I can wrangle a sentence out of my head, my typing is so much better, maybe time to learn to plot a little.
Snow. I'd like it completely if I didn't have to drive in it.
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I took a free on-line peer reviewed fiction writing course a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. The key was writing about one thousand words a day. Some days try to tie your writing with what you've written previously, other days start fresh with a new idea. Eventually an idea may come up that is sufficient to fill the novel length that you're after.
I don't mind driving snow, I even don't mind shoveling it that much, what bugs me more is freezing rain.
I'm only at post 849. A ways to go before I catch up.
Congrats on the one thousand.
I know just what you mean about the strain of making stuff up. I am so used to (attempting to) tell the truth that anything else seems quite alien. And wrong. Stupid, but there we are.
Congratulations, Zhoen. Not just for quantity and persistence, but for so regularly producing wonderful, accomplished writing.
More congratulations, Zhoen. It's such an excellent discipline, and isn't it amazing that you never really know what's going to appear on the screen or paper?
Congratulations on passing a grand. Since I'm still in short pants (metaphorically) I used my hundredth to celebrate the metric system; two hundred is just over the hill and I'm wondering if I can eke out the decimal points and the zeroes. But for how long? That thing about fiction fragments is a great back-stop. I have three and a half novels (alas unpublished) to fall back on, though they belong to the era of typing. Plus ten thousand words of another novel on the hard disk. As to lying it can backfire. If someone takes the lie at face value you feel you've behaved irresponsibly, cruelly.
I hit some ridiculous posting number this past summer (it happens fast when one posts every single day). TwoBlueDay reminded me that a number is just a number - the 10th post (or birthday or anniversary or insert-occasion-here) is no more or less meaningful than the 1st - or the 1,012th. Part of me thinks he's right, but I still celebrated the number, anyway.
Do it because you love it, or because it satisfies a need or want or desire. I'm an English teacher, so it should come as no surprise that I think writing is desperately important, not only for the connection it provides us to others but because of the connection it provides us to ourselves...
I look forward to the next thousand too
Or just make things up on your incident reports. If you make it really outlandish, no-one will accidentally believe it. "Patient then exhaled a dragon which laid three and a half gold eggs."
I've published 696 posts, apparently. Five posts from now, I'll be wishing I'd remembered to say something about that.
I feel the same about this icy weather, beautiful and interesting over the holiday, a worry now.
Bravo on the 1000. I can't sustain any kind of fiction at all, don't know how people do it. Some forms of poem enable me to make stuff up that bears no relationship to me or my experiences.
whatever you write we'll read with appreciation, as you know.
Congrats!
You write we read.
We know quality.
1,000.
It's a body of work. It's getting up and doing the work. It's progress.
And in your case, it's good reading for your readers.
Congrats, and keep it up.
I'm also thinking about some of this. I have come to the (slightly regretful) conclusion that blog-writing is good for blog, which is ok as I have come to appreciate blogworld for itself. But it doesn't do anything to move me forward with novel-writing or poems and I anyway have the impulse to keep them separate from blog. Though sometimes they break through.
Congrats on reaching 1001
Indeed, congratulations, on your having reached such a milestone.
Zhoen,
Congratulations. Contrived or not, 1000 is an important milestone, like Y2K. For the next 1000, write more of the same, or fiction fragments, or whatever you feel called to write. Or avoid writing if you must.
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