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Writer's Block vs Writer's Clock vs Writer's Angst

September 25, 2007 | No Comments Posted

When it comes to writing, I have been fortunate to seldom suffer the effects of writer's block, which is kind of amazing to me since I tend to write off the top if my head most of the time and rarely plan out a story in advance. What I do tend to suffer from is a lack of time to spend actually writing, or brainstorming ideas to write about. Time to write seems to have become an elusive commodity. And so has the availabilty of a little peace and quiet to go with it so my brain can get and stay on track when I'm trying to work on something. I currently have five stories on my plate vying for my attention, along with at least three others that keep creeping into my head, and a couple of ideas that I've been trying outline. I think my brain is going into gridlock. Two of the stories I'm looking at right now are actually works that I started and got multiple chapters done, but then stalled out, chiefly due to a lack of pre-development and an inability to spend enough time on it at one sitting to work through it. I find myself in the position of needing to sit down with pen and paper and go through what I want each charatcter's role to be, and fine tuning the plot ahead of time rather than trying to continue to do it on the fly. Something I'm not used to doing. I know this is an approach I should be taking with everything that I write, even my shorter works, perhaps then I would feel a greater level of satisfaction with the finished product and I wouldn't experience so much angst about the story as I'm writing it. I've never had that particular problem before and it has plagued me on everything I have written, and everything I have tried to write for the last few months. Repeatedly bouncing back and forth between 'It's good, I like it', and, 'It sucks, I hate it', is killing me. I'm not quite sure where this angst came from, but I think it's because I'm trying too hard to write something I hope everyone likes, instead of staying with the approach I began with, which was to write what I liked and hope other people liked it too. I realize that my writing does not usually contain highly involved or evolved plots. My style is more simple and to the point and relies heavly on the emotions of the characters. But, when I was going to school I don't remember any of my English teachers every bothering with the subject of creative writing very much. We may have been required to turn in a composition now and then, or write a few lines at the start of class for a few easy marks, but we were never really taught how to write a story. (Long live the horribly outdated curriculum and the 'we really don't care if you learn anything' attitude of the Ontario school system) Somehow, I caught the bug and I started writing on my own and over the years I've figured out how to do it. Judging by most of the reactions I've gotten to my fan fic stories, I must be doing something right. Hell, until I started writing fan fics I think there were only five or six people who had ever read anything I had written. I have really enjoyed watching my writing evolve over the years and the next stage of that evolution I want to see is using more involved plots. Now, if I could just get the time to actually get some serious work done, rather than writing a line or five at a time, here and there, and fighting with myself over it. More beer and less coffee might help. Hmmm....perhaps I will need to adjust the scenario.....

Writing Time Seems To Be Elusive

September 19, 2007 | No Comments Posted

It seems like I've been spending more time with other people's stories than with my own lately. I just finished uploading 8 stories by three different authors for the Project Archives. (And hopefully your reading enjoyment) I would like to be working on some of my own material, but I had a backlog of stories I had recieved permissions to archive to go through and stories to check and repair the formatting on before uploading. I've got four stories by three authors left in the backlog to clear out (and some of them are long ones) before I go back to combing dead archives again to look for more and attempt to get permission to use them. Maybe by the time I get to the next blog entry I'll be back to my own stuff and able to give so info and updates on my progress. In the mean tinme, I hope people continue to enjoy what I have already written.

Me, a blogger?

September 17, 2007 | No Comments Posted

Looks at email from LD advising me that I now have a blog... "I seem to have been drafted....this was not in the scenario" Hmmm, a blog where I can give updates about my writing, engage in a little self propmotion maybe and possibly expound on a few other things eh? I suppose it's worth a shot. The worst I could do is bore you to death. (Or take your soul, I am a Horseman after all) For those of you who aren't familair with my writing, you can find my stories here at Darkscribes, at Evamade, and at FanFiction.net., so you have plenty of options for finding them and giving them a read. I would appreciate it if you did. I welcome reviews, constructive critcism and even general discussions about what I wrote. I do not however accept unwarranted flames or general idiocy. Both will be dealt with harshly. I currently have four projects on my mind right now, which would explain why none of them are moving very quickly. I also find that my free time to write keeps getting unexpectedly squeezed when I least want it to. I'm sure any of you who write have the same problem. When you have time to write, you can't seem to concentrate and get anything done. When you don't have time to write, that's when you want to do it the most. That's usually when your brain starts spitting out great ideas and you lose them before you can get to a piece of paper or a keyboard. But, I'm drifting a bit here since this first entry is more to let people know it's here than anything else. In future posts I'll get into whatever I may be working on and anything else that may pop up in my alleged mind. Remember, try no to take life too seriously, it's not like any of us are getting out alive anyway.

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