Weekend Wandering
Jun. 20th, 2004 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolphins_logWeekend Wandering
Today started fairly easily. Last night was very hot, even at 1:30 AM when I got home after Writer's Night. Poor Juli had to get up at 9 to go to work. Well... I got up at 9 as well and put her lunch together. At 10 I kissed her goodbye and told her to play nice with the other kids.
I set out into the back yard right away, and snipped off as much of the small scotch broom starts as I could find. Then I reached as high as I could into my neighbors blackberry next and snipped off the branches that were trying to arch over into our yard. There were also a number of vines and scotch broom branches trying to make their way under and through the fence. Crafty creatures!
I still needed to find my father his book for Father's Day. I started with Port Orchard, with only one pause for a hair cut. No luck here. Next I headed for Gig Harbor. Again no luck. Then off to Tacoma with a visit to Half Price Book's, Borders, and then the Tacoma Mall. Still no luck. After a four-hour search I've resigned myself to ordering it in and being very late.
While I was in Tacoma I stopped at TJ Maxx and found Juli processing shoes. Actually she paged me to register 5 where she was surrounded by cases and cases of shoes. Beware people. I've seen the shoe event horizon. I offered to go get her a latte, for which she was great full. She was very busy so of course we couldn't visit. It was enough that I could get her a beverage.
My take on
Time Well Spent
I got bored last night with the story. I got bored while I was reading the story. That's not a good sign. Everyone was very helpful with their comments and gave some good suggestions. Now comes an interesting realization...
It's time for the rewrite. I was here at this point two years ago, and the rewrite didn't happen. I wasn't inspired to bring the story to completion. Now, as then, I am not inspired. I am a little frustrated. ...and if I'm not careful, it will be another two years before any rewriting happens.
So here is that part of writing that isn't easy, that doesn't flow quite as readily off the keyboard. This is that part where the heavy work comes in.
The realization? I wasn't willing to do the work last time. I wanted the story to come through as easily as my other stories had. I was unwilling to work for it, I suppose.
Now that I've put it all into proper perspective, I think I may be willing to go to work. This is the Perspiration part.
Today started fairly easily. Last night was very hot, even at 1:30 AM when I got home after Writer's Night. Poor Juli had to get up at 9 to go to work. Well... I got up at 9 as well and put her lunch together. At 10 I kissed her goodbye and told her to play nice with the other kids.
I set out into the back yard right away, and snipped off as much of the small scotch broom starts as I could find. Then I reached as high as I could into my neighbors blackberry next and snipped off the branches that were trying to arch over into our yard. There were also a number of vines and scotch broom branches trying to make their way under and through the fence. Crafty creatures!
I still needed to find my father his book for Father's Day. I started with Port Orchard, with only one pause for a hair cut. No luck here. Next I headed for Gig Harbor. Again no luck. Then off to Tacoma with a visit to Half Price Book's, Borders, and then the Tacoma Mall. Still no luck. After a four-hour search I've resigned myself to ordering it in and being very late.
While I was in Tacoma I stopped at TJ Maxx and found Juli processing shoes. Actually she paged me to register 5 where she was surrounded by cases and cases of shoes. Beware people. I've seen the shoe event horizon. I offered to go get her a latte, for which she was great full. She was very busy so of course we couldn't visit. It was enough that I could get her a beverage.
My take on
Time Well Spent
I got bored last night with the story. I got bored while I was reading the story. That's not a good sign. Everyone was very helpful with their comments and gave some good suggestions. Now comes an interesting realization...
It's time for the rewrite. I was here at this point two years ago, and the rewrite didn't happen. I wasn't inspired to bring the story to completion. Now, as then, I am not inspired. I am a little frustrated. ...and if I'm not careful, it will be another two years before any rewriting happens.
So here is that part of writing that isn't easy, that doesn't flow quite as readily off the keyboard. This is that part where the heavy work comes in.
The realization? I wasn't willing to do the work last time. I wanted the story to come through as easily as my other stories had. I was unwilling to work for it, I suppose.
Now that I've put it all into proper perspective, I think I may be willing to go to work. This is the Perspiration part.
