It's amazing how quickly someone can get hooked on blogging. If you had asked me last week my opinion on blogs, I would have told you they were a waste of time and I would never have one.
Wil Wheaton, what hast thou wrought?
I guess that's why I feel like such a slacker. I went *GASP!* a whole 28 hours without a new blog post! Shock! Horror!
Well, I guess it's because I tend to post after I've written a new story, and I just couldn't come up with anything yesterday. No matter what I tried, there was just nothing there. Fortunately, that didn't last. I've just posted a new story on Ficlets. Not as good as The Observer (which, I think, is my best work on Ficlets so far), but I'm prett happy with it. Check it out and, if you're a Ficlets member, let me know what you think.
Off topic for a sec, this is so cool! I must have one! Thanks, AJ, for pointing it out to me!
I am SUCH a geek. (And proud of it!)
Okay... Where was I?
Well, I've noticed that one habit I have with writing that always drove my creative writing teachers right up the flue is that I never plan anything out. The closest I come is figuring out the beginning and ending of a story, and then I just start writing and fill it in as I go. I don't know how many teachers got frustrated with me because I could never hand in an outline. How could I hand in what I never did in the first place?
That is definitely something I have to work on. It's all well and good, I guess, for a short story (especially ones the size of a Ficlets story). But I do, eventually, want to write a novel. And that's something I don't think I can really do this way. If I'm looking at, say, a 300 page book, that's alot of information to come up with on the fly. I think in December, when I start writing longer (15 - 20 page) short stories, I'm going to have to plan them out a lot more carefully. I'm looking to work on one a week, so maybe spend the first two or three days planning it out, and then the other four or five writing it.
If I can get myself into the habit. Well, it's what I want to do, and if I'm going to be even moderately successful, I can't have my story rambling here and there all over the place.
But, as they say, old habits die hard.
