Day 21
WARNING!!! Several rants to follow! Okay, well... only two, but you can skip my first two paragraphs if you want.
So I totally don't agree that "following your imagination" means getting to a predestined ending. I think my story is so exciting because half the time I don't even know how it's going to end!! I began the story without a clear ending which was fine because I had time to develop my characters. As more things made their way into my plot, I came up with my idea for the ending, but because it isn't all written out already, I am free to add things as I need. I don't want the end sitting in a drawer. Not knowing how things are going to end I think makes things less predictable for my readers too.
NEXT!
So I've been listening to a band called ALL CAPS, they're fun to listen to while writing. The girl who's in the band, Kristina used to sing wizard rock if that's any indication as to the kind of band they are. They sing music that has plot, like World of Warcraft Ruined My Life or You Kissed Me at the Dundies, it's techno beats, and it just really makes me happy. Interestingly enough, one of their songs is called the Nanowrimo Song... so I would heavily advise that if you like writing, you listen to this band, haha!
Enough of music ranting, how about I talk about my writing. So after a day of fervent typing, I am sugar crashing, but whatever the equivalent of that for ODing on writing is. I have been procrastinating all day about writing. I thought a little bit about it. I think also, I'm upset because Jack and Daisy were fighting again. Ugh. They kinda patched things over, but I know that Jack is gonna be super mad at Daisy when she gets the chance to tell him what's going on.
So as it turns out, my trial version of microsoft office expired (gosh, it's already been A MONTH since my birthday?!), so I am waiting for open office to download now. More updates to this blog coming in a few.
Uhm, so today's post is going to be a little off. This was supposed to be the day I reached 30,000, but instead it's going to be the day I decided to invest in microsoft office. Well, the day before I did. I'm having a really hard time writing and feeling at home in notepad or open office (aka bain of my existence ruined my first two modules of schooling). So, I'm going to pick up tomorrow.
Nothing quite compares with MS Word...so sad. So I totally get your feeling on listening to music while writing. I like to listen to the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack, or the Dark Knight soundtrack, or any number of other sound tracks that are epic sounding while I'm writing. It helps me get into that creative mode.
ReplyDeleteGood luck getting Office. I actually do all my writing inside of Google Docs--not the most ideal place at all, but it makes my work available on any computer. That's good for me since I don't have the best luck lately with computers.
Steve, I really like that you enjoy listening to "epic" music while writing... that makes me crack up to hear it classified like a genre.. :]
ReplyDeleteAlso, we can get office from Darion's work for 10 bucks to both our computers, I'm super excited about that :]
Yeah, you know another thing is that I changed my page background color to grey, and I didn't realize it, but that seriously helped me write... so lame, but so true. It made me really upset when I had to write black on white like everyone else.
ReplyDeleteIt set the mood for my story, lol!