da duh... da duh... da duh

I feel like we need ominous music or something. The 3-day is merely days away -- thus Writing on Writing is merely days away from the 72 hours when it is flooded with posts... way more than it sees for the rest of the year. I must admit that I'm excited. A little scared, but mostly excited.

I've written only a few pages this break. I'm a horrible person. I've been kept pretty busy though. I feel like I can't really justify working on something that isn't my Institute of the Humanities project. They're promised to pay me for, so I just need to write the darn thing. It simply isn't coming out. I'd rather be writing something else. Specifically, I'd rather be writing my 3-day novel. Or even Ishalia. But probably the 3-day novel.

I might write some more over the next couple of days, but lets face it: all writing efforts are really to be chanelled into what is going to begin on Friday at midnight.

Quite Apt

Susan,
The only thing you can look forward to over the course of the day is change. You may be starting to feel a little apathetic at work so find yourself a new project to work on. You might even go to the extent of moving to a new department. You will do a much better job if you are enjoying yourself.

That was my horroscope today. It actually describes quite aptly what happened today in terms of work as I'm calling it at the moment. During vacation my true work is, of course, my writing. So I tried to get myself into Ishalia, I sat at this computer for a good long time and produced the scant side of a page of text. It gets us somewhere, but it will likely be modified in the future. Instead I switched several hours later and fleshed out a shorter piece I'd been thinking about for awhile. Barely and hour and a half later I've got five pages and something that I'm actually quite happy with. Go frigging figure eh?

I'm going to try again with Ishalia, I think I'm going to try and put aside an hour of Ishalia time every second day or so. It's not too much to ask if we ever want to finish that which is such a promising story.

The sum of the matter is as follows: I wrote today but only one sixth of the pages were on task.

Balance

I can understand the issues that Suse was having over there with book two -- we've said time and time again that book two is the dark book, mostly everything (especially now that we're rapidly approaching events that will pave the way for the climax) is rather dark. Beyond even that, these are important scenes, and not, you know, the "easy" stuff (ie witty dialogue, or palace prattle). But I'm glad she got a bit of book one done, because as I said before I fully support grand plans in the goals for that book over this break. It's hard to get a good handle on events happening characters when we're simultaneously creating events that could have bearing on who they become... it's not like we're plainly re-writing, we're totally re-crafting the plot, at least in certain areas.

In other news, I too wrote yesterday. This is getting rediculous. I did about 3.5 pages when I didn't want to read Henry V, and then yesterday, when I didn't want to write my Henry V essay, I wrote another four pages. Okay, so to be fair, I probably wouldn't have written any of my essay at 1:30 in the morning anyway, but I might have gone to bed earlier to wake up fresh in order to tackle my essay! I've still only got a page of the essay done, by the way. Sigh. I'm going to go work on that now.

A little bit

I wrote a little bit today. I've been out of the headspace so long that it really took some effort. I just wasn't up to writing the keniving nitty gritty amazing shit that I needed to pull out, instead... I wrote book one stuff, to get me back in the groove of things.

Two pages and a half, I'll keep thinking about it though. It's in my head now.

Semester break approaches

Indeed, I did write in July. It was nothing so substative that I felt blogging it would do much good, but I guess it is a record of our productivity.

I am inclined to agree with Susan though -- we have to get a lot done this break. I would love to see book one come to its next point of completion so that we can begin submitting it again. I think that should be what we concentrate on. I have one more essay, due on Tuesday. After that, I am devoting myself to writing until September.

Pinky swear.

run more duck it and dodge it

Well, I know that Bethie wrote in July. I know she did because she did that instead of her homework, not that I'm complaining mind you! I'm just fine with that arrangement... for the most part... of course to look in this our poor abandoned blog we'd never know. There's also the matter of the paragraph I dragged out of her a little earlier in the month, which was a rather comical situation I must admit.

Aside from that July has been a bust. How have we slid so far? Don't ask me Things should pick up now that it's August though and we'll both have a chance to sit doen and be with our characters. I plan on giving Ishalia a bit of attention (a lot of a bit of attention) this break.

Bethany's work beat mine this month, I must admit, since I've been traitorous and working on other projects. I'm officially a bad person.

So there it is, a line up of what is and has been and what's to come. I hope my predictions are accurate. I'd say that I'd work it and that I'd even get done book one/book two this summer break but that is entirely unreasonable. A girl can dream though, can't she? I sure can... Who knows. Maybe I'll be able to convince Beth of one of these goals. Also unlikely.

Meh. Happy August loves.