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Sep. 7th, 2005 01:51 pmToday has been spent, for the most part, with Z and I sitting in our separate rooms working on our separate projects. Which is good. We may go for a bike ride later, or perhaps some similar jaunt, but it depends on how we're feeling when we're both done with work.
I have been trawling through my folder of old writings, and I believe, irresponsibly enough, that I really want to work on that first novel I started back in 1991. I don't know if it's really stupid of me to be this inconsistent, but I just can't summon the enthusiasm for the Vikings piece at the moment, and perhaps I should take some of what I enjoyed reading about while I was trawling![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
docbrite's archives to heart-- she had a very prosaic view of when a story was unfinishable, and ceaselessly explained that writing things you didn't feel with all your heart never led to a good product. Now, it's not that I don't believe in the Vikings, but I can't deny that my current perspective on the thing is a whole lot of work for the sake of only a tiny bit of excitement.
Urgh, I hate to be inconsistent, and I hate to set goals only to abandon them, but perhaps my repeated setting of goals I can't meet means something.
We'll see how today goes. So far I've just been reading. The novel wtih the dragons has a lot of obstacles as well, not least that I originally started writing it with a co-writer who is still working on her end, which is really no longer compatible with mine. I don't think i can use anything I've written already. It will have to be restarted from scratch. But, with fifteen years of living mentally in that world behind it, which is a damn sight bigger than 'scratch', and means I'm not likely to get hung up for lack of research-- which is what has killed all my historical fictions so far.
By the way, I found better drafts of the story i posted over on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
treigylgweith last night, so rest assured, that wasn't even a final draft.
The major obstacle at the moment is that the bits I have of the story are so thoroughly disorganized I can't find large swathes of it-- which is for the best. i'm going to keep characters and several of the most interesting events, and start over. With a lot less of the mystical shit, and a lot less of the repetition. We'll see how it goes-- it's better than spending a month just not writing, that's for sure.
I have been trawling through my folder of old writings, and I believe, irresponsibly enough, that I really want to work on that first novel I started back in 1991. I don't know if it's really stupid of me to be this inconsistent, but I just can't summon the enthusiasm for the Vikings piece at the moment, and perhaps I should take some of what I enjoyed reading about while I was trawling
docbrite's archives to heart-- she had a very prosaic view of when a story was unfinishable, and ceaselessly explained that writing things you didn't feel with all your heart never led to a good product. Now, it's not that I don't believe in the Vikings, but I can't deny that my current perspective on the thing is a whole lot of work for the sake of only a tiny bit of excitement. Urgh, I hate to be inconsistent, and I hate to set goals only to abandon them, but perhaps my repeated setting of goals I can't meet means something.
We'll see how today goes. So far I've just been reading. The novel wtih the dragons has a lot of obstacles as well, not least that I originally started writing it with a co-writer who is still working on her end, which is really no longer compatible with mine. I don't think i can use anything I've written already. It will have to be restarted from scratch. But, with fifteen years of living mentally in that world behind it, which is a damn sight bigger than 'scratch', and means I'm not likely to get hung up for lack of research-- which is what has killed all my historical fictions so far.
By the way, I found better drafts of the story i posted over on
treigylgweith last night, so rest assured, that wasn't even a final draft. The major obstacle at the moment is that the bits I have of the story are so thoroughly disorganized I can't find large swathes of it-- which is for the best. i'm going to keep characters and several of the most interesting events, and start over. With a lot less of the mystical shit, and a lot less of the repetition. We'll see how it goes-- it's better than spending a month just not writing, that's for sure.
