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Oct. 3rd, 2017 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI took a little bit of a walk after leaving Cordelia at the crosswalk. I took about half an hour. It's in the mid-40s out there, so it was pleasant with a light jacket.
We've figured out that Scott and Cordelia can't keep doing the things they're doing with their phones/data unless we're willing to pay more. For Scott, it's constant Facebook on his breaks and lunch. For Cordelia, it's Snapchat because she has one friend who sends something like 40 photos on an average day. Cordelia didn't realize that receiving each of those used data. She really doesn't like the idea of cutting off Snapchat, even for a few hours, because it's too much like cutting off the friends who are at other schools. Skyline has wifi, but it's terrible quality, according to Cordelia.
I'm trying to weed out messages from my inbox. There are some things, mostly DW comments, that I meant to answer, but they're now six weeks old, and I no longer remember the full context. The answers were either more for politeness than ongoing discussion or things that were too difficult to address at the time.
I gave up on a set of Great Courses lectures about writing fiction because, once I saw the first few lectures and looked at the titles of the rest, I realized that it didn't address the any of the things I need to work on in my own writing. Most of it was characterization/character development, dialogue, and plot construction. I'm pretty comfortable with all of that. I need techniques for integrating visual description into my narrative flow (I write two people, in a void, talking to each other, far too often) and how to structure action scenes, particularly scenes with more than two characters present.
Of course, I was also put off by the lecturer starting out by talking about the importance of outlining for plot. He later admitted, as if it was something potentially shameful, that he finds out who his characters are by writing them and seeing what they do. So I'm side-eying all of that. I suppose that outlining works for enough people that it's a basic thing to teach. I'd just like acknowledgement that that's not the natural flow for some (many!) people so that people who're just starting out don't think they can't write just because they can't outline.
I did a little bit of writing last night and discovered that I'd completed the emotional arc of the story. There's still tens of thousands of words worth of the plot I thought I was writing, but the emotional arc is done. Given that this is part of House of Sulfur and Mercury, I'm just going to end there and start a sequel to deal with the plot. This last chapter isn't quite 900 words, so it feels horribly short, but it's done.
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weissvsaiyuki and characters for UCon. The latter have two aspects to chip away at-- the numbers and rule related things and then the actual character histories, goals, etc. I want to have seven characters that people could play, but I need to plan so that I could run with just two of them, any two of them, and I capped attendance at five players, so they won't all seven get played. I can't imagine the game filling, all the players showing up, and then having extra players wanting in. It's scheduled for 9 a.m. on Saturday, after all.
We've figured out that Scott and Cordelia can't keep doing the things they're doing with their phones/data unless we're willing to pay more. For Scott, it's constant Facebook on his breaks and lunch. For Cordelia, it's Snapchat because she has one friend who sends something like 40 photos on an average day. Cordelia didn't realize that receiving each of those used data. She really doesn't like the idea of cutting off Snapchat, even for a few hours, because it's too much like cutting off the friends who are at other schools. Skyline has wifi, but it's terrible quality, according to Cordelia.
I'm trying to weed out messages from my inbox. There are some things, mostly DW comments, that I meant to answer, but they're now six weeks old, and I no longer remember the full context. The answers were either more for politeness than ongoing discussion or things that were too difficult to address at the time.
I gave up on a set of Great Courses lectures about writing fiction because, once I saw the first few lectures and looked at the titles of the rest, I realized that it didn't address the any of the things I need to work on in my own writing. Most of it was characterization/character development, dialogue, and plot construction. I'm pretty comfortable with all of that. I need techniques for integrating visual description into my narrative flow (I write two people, in a void, talking to each other, far too often) and how to structure action scenes, particularly scenes with more than two characters present.
Of course, I was also put off by the lecturer starting out by talking about the importance of outlining for plot. He later admitted, as if it was something potentially shameful, that he finds out who his characters are by writing them and seeing what they do. So I'm side-eying all of that. I suppose that outlining works for enough people that it's a basic thing to teach. I'd just like acknowledgement that that's not the natural flow for some (many!) people so that people who're just starting out don't think they can't write just because they can't outline.
I did a little bit of writing last night and discovered that I'd completed the emotional arc of the story. There's still tens of thousands of words worth of the plot I thought I was writing, but the emotional arc is done. Given that this is part of House of Sulfur and Mercury, I'm just going to end there and start a sequel to deal with the plot. This last chapter isn't quite 900 words, so it feels horribly short, but it's done.
The next things I need to work on are stories for
weissvsaiyuki and characters for UCon. The latter have two aspects to chip away at-- the numbers and rule related things and then the actual character histories, goals, etc. I want to have seven characters that people could play, but I need to plan so that I could run with just two of them, any two of them, and I capped attendance at five players, so they won't all seven get played. I can't imagine the game filling, all the players showing up, and then having extra players wanting in. It's scheduled for 9 a.m. on Saturday, after all.
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Date: 2017-10-04 09:31 pm (UTC)Good on you getting writing done! Awesome progress. Good to see you still getting on that despite issues about writing that you've mentioned.