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Authors and Procrastination
Uilos:
I've been working on a Novel on and off for the past three to four years now. It's my first, and also My Big One.
In the first draft, you could see the evolution in the writing just in the first three chapters, to the point where the first chapter was incomprehensible compared to the rest. I continued working on it, just to get the ground work. But by then it had developed in my imagination into a completely Monolithic creature. What was once a third person story spanning several characters were now first person narratives for several characters. The world and the people became more fleshed out. So I scrapped that draft and started a new one. The next draft was good, it flowed well. But I was taking my main character into the wrong direction. Mercifully I was only three chapters into this one, but now I need to go back.
So. Work, work, work
Quantus:
I have now translated one of my projects into a setting for a Scion (white wolf system) rpg that Im going to run for my local group. It fits the rules remarkably well, and it lets me milk my friends for character ideas ;)
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Quantus on June 09, 2009, 08:55:38 PM ---I have now translated one of my projects into a setting for a Scion (white wolf system) rpg that Im going to run for my local group. It fits the rules remarkably well, and it lets me milk my friends for character ideas ;)
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Brilliant, but how do you draw the line between your material and theirs? Can you tell that I've never rpg'd?
As to your evolution--super isn't it? And for some reason it doesn't seem to frustrate the hell out of me either! I think you are a wolf at heart, that grabs hold with your teeth and just keep shaking it until you've conquered it!
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
heh.
I'm not a wolf at heart; I am a patient spider, building my webs and letting the words come to me.
2580 tonight; writing on Wednesday in a break of the usual routine because this weekend is Fringe.
MiM:
I procrastinate more than I write, if it was a career, I would be a millionaire. I've been working on my novel in it's varying forms for seven years now... almost as long as it took Bram Stoker to write his vampire novel!
I really need to stop finding excuses, and just write
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