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14 December, 2011

Why I Can't Write... And Why I Do

Heavy Title, isn't it? But the truth's the truth.

I can't write.

I have ideas all the time. They plague my dreams. I get up in the morning and, furiously brushing my teeth, try to fix the details in my mind. The stranger, the more surreal, the better. I've had dreams that I'm scared of, about murderers and repressive societies that kill non-conformers. And I think, 'What a great idea!'. But I never remember too much. So sometimes my ideas are little gems; but I've never found the nugget or vein I'm looking for. Very, very rarely, I try to put several little gems together, to get one big pretty piece of jewelry, and then stick it together with some random glue, like new characters or convoluted relationships.

I work on my stories a lot, but never enough. When one's half-done, I switch to a newer, more exciting idea. I sometimes wonder if I'll ever finish a story. I guess I'll never know.

Okay, that's not completely true. I did complete a story once. Or twice.

A fanfiction, about Detective School Q and CLAMP School, was my first completed fic ever. Also the first that I ever put up online. If you want to look over it, it's fine. But remember, this was six years ago, and it is bad. (Not that I'm not proud of my twelve-year-old's scribblings. I am.)


Another one, which I was in the process of submitting to a beta-reader(not a very experienced one, 'tis true), was stored on the old home desktop and seems to be lost forever. Ah, I'll always remember you, my friend.

One more, a poem, that is not worth the paper it's written on, but somehow other people disagree.(Note: The last few lines, the 'you' parts, are all serious crap. The first few ones I like.)

Linky: Here it is.

Then there was the fanfiction I'll probably take to my grave. It was probably my best work so far, and I even thought of several alternate endings for it, but I was too embarrassed to put it up anywhere, or, heck, let anyone see it. FMEO. For my eyes only.

My last novel attempt. That one I'm genuinely proud of. But it's incomplete and not well-thought-out, and I want to improve it. I want people to read it---I... I...

I just had the most amazing idea! Thanks, people, you rock!! A kidnapping attempt is just what it needed!!

*heart* This is gonna be great, I enthuse in my mind, thinking of it even as my mom shouts for me in the background. I won't stop thinking, writing, writing, writing, until it's perfect. And then some.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I write.

More updates on my uber-novel soooooon.

For now, goodbye.

BdK

PS: Hey, you! Yeah, you who I'm going to be conning into reading this blog this very afternoon! Let's have some fun! Let the MI begin!!


08 December, 2011

Christopher Paolini: Copycat! Copycat!

Eragon and Star Wars.

What have they got in common?

Oh, nothing. EXCEPT THE WHOLE PLOT.

I'm not actually kidding.


ASOIAF sjdhg

Yeah, I know. What the hell is up with that title?

Actually, it's the abbrev. of A Song Of Ice and Fire, by George R.R. Martin.


18 October, 2011

Wow, it's been a while

It really has. Ever since I came away to college, even after I bought a brand-new lappy(that's laptop to the less squeally-minded) and got a lan-cord, so I could surf--with the exception of ALL the fun sites(The IITB internet facility is designed to cater to your ACADEMIC needs!)


10 July, 2011

Day 6 of serious JulNo writing: Progress



Is it just me or is that cheery little meter filling up substantially?
I know, I know. I'm pretty awesome. Unfortunately, I'm still behind the official minimum by about 4K words. But what can you do? In my case, write more. Maybe word war. No one really wants to word war with me, I've found. Too bad. I'll just keep using WoD(Write or Die) and keep increasing my word count slowly. Meanwhile, I used the snowflake method to hash out a plot of sorts. So maybe this novel will have an eventual point after all.
*Squints*
Nope, can't see it.

BdK

09 July, 2011

JulNo Progress Report! Day 5


So this is where I am so far: for those who do not want to squint at the Write or Die meter, it's 8960 words so far. I confidently expect to write about 1.5K words more today (right after I drink my tea and check my mail/update my facebook/twitter and go on the forums to play a word game and read 'The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest' and maybe taking a little nap) :)
Not too shabby, but imnottelling, the user I've chosen to decide to beat, is a full 3K words ahead of me. I figure if I write 3K per day for the rest of the month, I'll coast into a spot ahead of him/her. So that's my plan. Also, Vrushang's agreed to join me in trying to write as many words as possible and annoy as many people around us as possible by obsessing on our novels; so let's give him a warm welcome, people!
I started this story with just one character. I made the other one up racing against the Write or Die red screen. So far, I'm thinking hard decisions, slice of life. Following your dreams? Forgiveness? And these are just the values I need to get across. Now for the actual story. Scroll down, please.

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A computer geek who wants to get into a good university takes up a sort-of-job with the girl she used to idolise in high school. There, she teaches her a thing or two about life and the living. Also, this scary guy keeps showing up. End summary.
I got nothing else. Someone kill me now.

BdK

04 July, 2011



So there! I've decided(a little late, I know) to do JulNoWriMo. For those of you not familiar with it, it stands for: July Novel Writing Month. You're supposed to start on the 1st, but I've started on the 4th; and end on the 31st, with at least 50,000 words written until midnight on the last day. Things are looking good, I think, mostly because of this site- Write or Die. It's awesome. By awesome I mean it starts deleting your words if you stop writing. Cool, right? So you keep writing, and writing, and writing, and writing... well, you get the picture. So far my basic story revolves about Ria, one of my favourite characters. She's Japanese, and sweet and kind and more than a little naive. She's just inherited a lot of money, and hired a friend of hers to help her(the friend) out of her financial problems. That's what I have so far. Not bad for half a day's work, some would say. My goal is two sessions, about 45 mins each, of 1000 words each, so a total of 2000 words written every day. That would mean 27*2000 = 54000 words, a cool 4000 words above the winning word count. Yeah. That would be great.

BdK.

PS, my actual word count's : 2147 words!