Another Tuesday
Apr. 15th, 2003 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amalthiawell it's another Tuesday, and tonight I'm watching buffy the vampire slayer. I have to admit I love Faith. :) I'm so glad they brought her back for the last episodes of the show. She's one of my favorite characters, I guess it's because she was good, then sort of evil, but still conflicted. I think I can see some of myself in her character. But sadly I'll never pull of wearing leather jackets the way she does.
but at the same time, this show is WEIRD!!!
Last night I saw another preview for the X-Men 2 movie. :) I'm so excited about seeing it, I hope its a good movie.
Also I'm finally almost over being sick. Hurray for me.
I'm writing a Harry Potter fan fiction now and I'm on page 85. I'm sort of starting to get bored and I don't know where to go with it. Now what I want to know is how do authors write 500 page novels, or people like Robert Joran write a 8000 page series. I think it's 8000 pages, I downloaded his books off kazaa...
sigh well I'm going to try and finish the story soon because i'm tired of not finishing what I start. Ever since I was young, well okay I'm not old only 23, but since I was about 11 or 12, I thought I wanted to write novels well not novels, I wanted to write scary stories, like Stephen King. Maybe i should go back to my roots and try doing what I originally planned.
I don't think I can continue writing fan fiction because I'm starting to wonder, if I'm killing my creativity? If I had any to begin with. I also find it difficult to write dialogue between characters because I'm always wondering if I"m maknig the characters say something they would'nt say, but if it was my story, my world, my character then I could have them say whatever, and I'd know in my heart that my character is being true to himself/or herself. In writing fan fiction I'm afraid to have the characters talk to each other. And that's the bottom line, and I think that stumps me when I'm writing because I don't know sometimes how to make small talk with characters. And should characters small talk in a story?
In most stories, the dialogue exists to move the story forward.
Lois Bujold McMasters, is one of the funniest sci-fi writers I've ever read and there are times were I wish I could create situations in a story that are funny, but I get teh feeling that if I tried, it wouldn't come off right. So I stick to what is comfortable for me. Maybe age does make a difference in writing stories. Authors that are published, have been writing for years and I get ths since that they are drawing on a wealth of life experiences when they write.
Today walking to work from class, I had this moment where I wondered if I'd ever have an original idea. I've read so many book, watched hundreds of movies, watched tons of tv shows, and that thought sort of saddened me somewhat. Lately, I've been losing intersts in a lot of my favorite activities. I can barely watch anime anymore (to be fair most of it sucks nowdays), reading fan fiction isn't as fun, maybe i'm too picky, and reading books is fun, but I rarely come across great stories.
I figured, a year ago or so that if I wanted to read good stories, I'd either have to search even harder, or write my own.
sigh...this is getting rather long.
but at the same time, this show is WEIRD!!!
Last night I saw another preview for the X-Men 2 movie. :) I'm so excited about seeing it, I hope its a good movie.
Also I'm finally almost over being sick. Hurray for me.
I'm writing a Harry Potter fan fiction now and I'm on page 85. I'm sort of starting to get bored and I don't know where to go with it. Now what I want to know is how do authors write 500 page novels, or people like Robert Joran write a 8000 page series. I think it's 8000 pages, I downloaded his books off kazaa...
sigh well I'm going to try and finish the story soon because i'm tired of not finishing what I start. Ever since I was young, well okay I'm not old only 23, but since I was about 11 or 12, I thought I wanted to write novels well not novels, I wanted to write scary stories, like Stephen King. Maybe i should go back to my roots and try doing what I originally planned.
I don't think I can continue writing fan fiction because I'm starting to wonder, if I'm killing my creativity? If I had any to begin with. I also find it difficult to write dialogue between characters because I'm always wondering if I"m maknig the characters say something they would'nt say, but if it was my story, my world, my character then I could have them say whatever, and I'd know in my heart that my character is being true to himself/or herself. In writing fan fiction I'm afraid to have the characters talk to each other. And that's the bottom line, and I think that stumps me when I'm writing because I don't know sometimes how to make small talk with characters. And should characters small talk in a story?
In most stories, the dialogue exists to move the story forward.
Lois Bujold McMasters, is one of the funniest sci-fi writers I've ever read and there are times were I wish I could create situations in a story that are funny, but I get teh feeling that if I tried, it wouldn't come off right. So I stick to what is comfortable for me. Maybe age does make a difference in writing stories. Authors that are published, have been writing for years and I get ths since that they are drawing on a wealth of life experiences when they write.
Today walking to work from class, I had this moment where I wondered if I'd ever have an original idea. I've read so many book, watched hundreds of movies, watched tons of tv shows, and that thought sort of saddened me somewhat. Lately, I've been losing intersts in a lot of my favorite activities. I can barely watch anime anymore (to be fair most of it sucks nowdays), reading fan fiction isn't as fun, maybe i'm too picky, and reading books is fun, but I rarely come across great stories.
I figured, a year ago or so that if I wanted to read good stories, I'd either have to search even harder, or write my own.
sigh...this is getting rather long.
You're thinking too much
Date: 2003-04-16 11:31 pm (UTC)As for writing fan fiction. You shouldn't worry too much. It's fan fiction! You're taking characters and writing them in a different sitution (sp?) then the author, as long as you're not making them massively OOC it's no big deal.
And if you want to write comedy. Write it. You never know until you try. It'll renew your love for writing 'cause of the challenge it will create.
As for good anime. I think you're not looking hard enough. Download Get Backers, that series is great. Watch the first four-five eps so the series can really kick in. And s.CRY.ed is also good. There are others but my brain is fried at the moment and I can't think of any
Re: You're thinking too much
Date: 2003-04-16 11:54 pm (UTC)I just need to find a good day to sit down and watch with some chips and popcorn. I have this craving for real popcorn now. For x-mas a few years ago I got a popcorn popper but I haven't even taken it out of the box yet. :( I think this summer when I'm living at my parent's trailor house, I'll take it out of the box and use it.
Anyway, back to fan fiction. I think I need to get back to my roots with that too. :) When i started this story I started with the intent to write what I wanted to read and to hell with everyone else...and I think along the way I forgot that.
But hell some days I do think more negatively. Like I pulled my calf muscle yesterday while sleeping...I don't know how I managed that, but the pain woke me up 10 minutes before my alarm was supposed to go off. And my calf still hurts. I wonder what causes that....
Well it's 2 am and I have to get to bed, so I'm not too late to class. I can tell i'm a senior when I start thinking I need to get to class no more than 5 minutes late.