Man! I must say, I wasn't expecting to write to you, my readers, so soon, but can I just say that what a relief it is not to be on the college hunt anymore? Whew!
With all this time that has opened up in the evenings, what is a fella to do? Well, you know me, I always have hobbies waiting out in the wings, ready to fill the void :-) In this case, I FINALLY picked up my novel again, after months of being off the job. Today has been very productive, although I'll admit that it has taken quite a while tonight to get the juices flowing. That, and the girl next to me at the coffee shop is a bit distracting ;-) but hey, back to the book!
I've spent a good chunk of the evening rereading all my notes, charts, outlines, and rough drafts. First, I just have to say, this thing is a lot better than I remembered. I can't wait to share it! I just hope the details flow as freely as they did before, as it has been a while. Who cares, it's fiction, I can just make up stuff right? That's part of the creative process haha.
Well, today has been pretty productive so far, but I'm on a short break for now. I thought while I was taking it easy, I'd post one of my writing exercises I found. If you can believe it (I'm sure you can), I bought a book on writing a book a while back, which I have since given up reading. However, one of the cool exercises that it suggested was writing down 100 things that you love, and then using those in your novel, since you tend to write a lot more passionately about the things you love.
So what are my 100 things? Here you go, enjoy!
I hope you enjoyed reading this list as much as I did again tonight. I think there are some duplicates, but whatever. Some of these things are REALLY random haha.
Alright, enough break time, back to work! Not sure if I'll keep hanging out at the coffee shop or head back home to work on this, but I'm on a roll tonight. That and let's just say I'm not to motivated to move my seat at the moment lol.
Until next time, stay classy readers!
-StM
1 comments:
Agreed on # 2, 4, 11, 34, 35, 52, 65, 71, 72, 76, and 80. Not so much for # 1, 10, 33, or 85. # 57 is good except when I am the target. I think # 96 is funny sight to imagine.
I just realized we thought of a lot of the same things... even though I swear I didn't study your list too closely until now. I guess great minds think alike :)
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