Babbling about Writing
Nov. 13th, 2005 12:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_roseNaAmbiguWriMo goes okay. There is one aspect of it I've been neglecting, but I've been doing alright so far on the novel side. I think I'll be where I want to be by the end of tomorrow. the most annoying thing is deciding on the name fixes. Names are so important! For example, I seem to be having an argument with one of my characters. She started out insisting that she was Elen Marah, the way some girls are Bobby Jo or Mary Beth, even as my fingers kept getting lazy and wanting to type just Elen, and my brain told me that, since nobody else has a two part first name, she'd kind of stand out as an inconsistency, editors would get annoyed, copyeditors would be even more annoyed, and readers (If I should get that far!) would write grumbling nitpicky letters about her. She was adamant. Then later, without any particular character moment or climactic touch signalling it, she seemed to decide that, okay, Elen would be fine from here on in.
When I attempted to revise the earlier scenes to Elen to match the later ones, it read wrong, wrong, wrong. She may have to be Elen Marah throughout, even after she says it's okay to make it shorter.
OTOH, the workout track has been doing okay -- not perfectly. But I decided that I'd go through the BBC radio Lord of the Rings adaptation for the first several sessions, and so far, it seems like a good idea. it certainly encourages a continuation of the exercise.
Picked up two more books today - one more pretty picture book and Amphigorey, the latter of which means I now have my own copy of The Unstrung Harp: or Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel, which I read and giggled at in a corner at VP when one of the instructors (I think it was Teresa?) left her copy out No novels or the like, though. I resisted getting Thud! yet again. Got enough reading to last me until Christmas, especially since I'm currently runnign through the library books - a collection of native American trickster tales first, which means a revision of my Titanic story will probably add itself into NaAmbiguWriMo. (Heck, it's short, and promises not to get longer for once, thoguh the particular words will probably change a great deal.) None of the trickster tales are first-person, of course, but I'm mangling folklore and pop culture as it is. I just wanted to get the tone right.
When I attempted to revise the earlier scenes to Elen to match the later ones, it read wrong, wrong, wrong. She may have to be Elen Marah throughout, even after she says it's okay to make it shorter.
OTOH, the workout track has been doing okay -- not perfectly. But I decided that I'd go through the BBC radio Lord of the Rings adaptation for the first several sessions, and so far, it seems like a good idea. it certainly encourages a continuation of the exercise.
Picked up two more books today - one more pretty picture book and Amphigorey, the latter of which means I now have my own copy of The Unstrung Harp: or Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel, which I read and giggled at in a corner at VP when one of the instructors (I think it was Teresa?) left her copy out No novels or the like, though. I resisted getting Thud! yet again. Got enough reading to last me until Christmas, especially since I'm currently runnign through the library books - a collection of native American trickster tales first, which means a revision of my Titanic story will probably add itself into NaAmbiguWriMo. (Heck, it's short, and promises not to get longer for once, thoguh the particular words will probably change a great deal.) None of the trickster tales are first-person, of course, but I'm mangling folklore and pop culture as it is. I just wanted to get the tone right.
