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the_dala at 05:42pm on 09/11/2003
the_dala at 05:42pm on 09/11/2003Just came back from "Legally Blonde 2." Man, what a cute movie. Loved the Dupont Circle joke, and all the pretty shots of my city. The first one was better, but this was certainly worth the time.
So I've been feeling a real urge to get back to my old novel-in-progress. It's been years since I've touched it, and I had to read it twice over before I felt comfortable making any changes (though lord knows many, many changes need to be made). Still, I do feel that it has potential, if I can buckle down and work really hard on it. I can write without a muse, dammit -- I've done it before, I can do it again. I can work around the lightning strikes -- without them if need be. There's a real sense of guilt that I haven't done right by the story -- these characters are more real to me than anything I've ever written, and I would honestly feel that I wasn't doing right by them if I didn't complete the journey. All I want is a skeleton, sketching over the vaguer scenes so that I can finish it and then edit exhaustively. It's not bad, I can say that objectively. Well, some of it isn't bad. Some of it is quite horrible. Some weekend when I'm home I'm going to try and fish out all that's left on the old computer and never get printed for some reason -- the dragon scene and the dream scene is all I can remember specifically. I don't think I'll actually use either, but I want them with me as alternate takes, and to shed light on the characters.
I kinda wish it were possible for me to change names -- virtually all of then except one. But I can't: this name is now so intrinsically that character that it would be like if Megan suddenly up and decided she wanted to be called Ermengarde. Many of the names are uncreative and clichéd in fantasy, but...I can't change them! At least not now. Maybe someday, after a long, long editorial process. Although I can only see those names becoming more attached to the characters as they carry them throughout the entire thing...
Bah. Screw it. I can call my characters whatever I wish to call them.
So I've been feeling a real urge to get back to my old novel-in-progress. It's been years since I've touched it, and I had to read it twice over before I felt comfortable making any changes (though lord knows many, many changes need to be made). Still, I do feel that it has potential, if I can buckle down and work really hard on it. I can write without a muse, dammit -- I've done it before, I can do it again. I can work around the lightning strikes -- without them if need be. There's a real sense of guilt that I haven't done right by the story -- these characters are more real to me than anything I've ever written, and I would honestly feel that I wasn't doing right by them if I didn't complete the journey. All I want is a skeleton, sketching over the vaguer scenes so that I can finish it and then edit exhaustively. It's not bad, I can say that objectively. Well, some of it isn't bad. Some of it is quite horrible. Some weekend when I'm home I'm going to try and fish out all that's left on the old computer and never get printed for some reason -- the dragon scene and the dream scene is all I can remember specifically. I don't think I'll actually use either, but I want them with me as alternate takes, and to shed light on the characters.
I kinda wish it were possible for me to change names -- virtually all of then except one. But I can't: this name is now so intrinsically that character that it would be like if Megan suddenly up and decided she wanted to be called Ermengarde. Many of the names are uncreative and clichéd in fantasy, but...I can't change them! At least not now. Maybe someday, after a long, long editorial process. Although I can only see those names becoming more attached to the characters as they carry them throughout the entire thing...
Bah. Screw it. I can call my characters whatever I wish to call them.
determined