~GASP~
Oh no! I have left you poor souls in the lurch for a number
of days without random writing or ranting craziness! I apologize and sincerely
hope no one has been ill-effected by this turn of events. I had my computer in
for repair. Nothing serious, no need to panic. The protective plastic coating
on the bottom was coming off. and I must say that there is a certain feeling of
incompleteness when one’s laptop is missing. I found it more difficult to write
on my desktop. Terrible excuse, I know.
My laptop is back though, and in the meantime I was working
on an additional installment of a free online story which I have decided to
call The Chronicles of Jane Windall. I posted a little bit about what I want to
do in a previous blog post: http://camikahayes.blogspot.com/2012/07/writing-decisions.html
The idea is to use our wonderful internet as a means to help
improve my writing on a consistent basis, while also offering anyone who has a
few moments to waste, the opportunity to read free content. This stems from a time when periodicals
included short stories, or a long story broken into intervals. Readers were able to follow a story a little
at a time until its conclusion and I thought it sad that this trend fell by the
wayside. I know there are fanfiction
sites, and other writing sites but I don’t feel that it is quite the same. The
first section of The Chronicles of Jane Windall is not great, was just a
writing exercise for like 15 mins and unedited.
Bad idea. Second section is
hopefully better. If you want you can
check it out here:
Also, I had a slight epiphany yesterday having to do with
writer’s grief. I figured out I was grieving for a manuscript which turned out
quite different from what I originally had envisioned. I literally could not jump into the editing
process and finally realized I had needed time to grieve for what I knew would
never be. The story still has potential,
but my characters sent it in a completely different (albeit, better) direction.
Aside from my epiphany though, I will list my other accomplishments of the
week:
1) Sliced
the tip of my finger on an aluminum foil cutting edge (that serrated thingy)
2) Wore
my coffee to work
3) Barely
made it home when my car died in the middle of a turn
4) Finished
my 2nd installment in The Chronicles of Jane Windall (sorry,
redundant but I’m proud of finishing another section)
5) Hit
myself in the eye with a clothes hanger (don’t ask)
6) Had
an epiphany about writer’s grief (also redundant but I have to put a couple
good things on here)
7) Got
my laptop repaired
8) Got
an unexpected day off, and not in a “don’t come back again” way either, which
was very cool
9) Wrecked
my challenge by forgetting to freewrite yesterday (The Chronicles of Jane
Windall could count for that though, right?)
As you can see, it has been an absolutely riveting week!
Still not done with the books I am reading, so I guess it will be a while
before I’ll be able to do a review. In the
meantime if you want to read about my epiphany regarding my writer’s grief you
can read my post:
http://crampedwriting.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/grief-chronicles-of-jane-windall-and-other-such-coolness/
< pic of my manuscript in its box
< pic of my manuscript in its box Happy Ninjawriting!
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