Writing

Added more to Dusk - 2388 words. Started on the next section, 408 words. Other extra material brings me up to 3189. Excellent!

Fri 11/01: 500 (500) Sat 11/02: 2680 (3180) Sun 11/03: 2000 (5180) Mon 11/04: 1661 (6841) Tue 11/05: 358 (7199) lame Wed 11/06: 2053 (9252) Thu 11/07: 231 (9483) distracted Fri 11/08: zip Sat 11/09: zilch Sun 11/10: zero Mon 11/11: nada Tue 11/12: uh-uh Wed 11/13: nope Thu 11/14: 688 (10171) lame Fri 11/15: 529 (10700) Sat 11/16: Sun 11/17: Mon 11/18: Tue 11/19: Wed 11/20: Thu 11/21: Fri 11/22: Sat 11/23: Sun 11/24: Mon 11/25: Tue 11/26: Wed 11/27: Thu 11/28: Fri 11/29: Sat 11/30:

Not a very brave start, but it’s something. 310 words so far.

I’m using an alternate journal gconnor_writing to store my writing for the next month, to keep it separate from personal entries. I expect the writing may be bad, and will definitely be unedited. You may decide to wait for the finished product rather than reading it in real time. If you want to tune in anyway, you may click to the new journal’s info page and use the plus icon to add it to your friends.

Here’s some info for writers who are not quite sure where the “beginning, middle and end” of their story should be. How To Write Science Fiction And Fantasy is a great book by Orson Scott Card. We had the fortunate opportunity to see Orson Scott Card speak at a convention last year. He is a great guy, and cares a lot about helping amateur writers with advice. He led a workshop session where audience members collaborated to create a new science-fiction world, by asking “Why,” and “To what result/effect”. This was a great way to establish a cause-and-effect chain, and if the cause-and-effect chain is worked out in some detail, it can be an excellent story setting and a springboard for a number of stories. This was quite interesting as well… I will elaborate more on this if there is interest. ...

I am seriously thinking about using Veldan as the subject for my writing. Veldan is a character from Merlin’s game, Altaia, which I play in every other week. Veldan’s History (Written as character narrative) I am a half-orc. My mother was a half-orc. She bore four children by her first husband (not my father). He was a jeweler, and he died 5 years before I was born, during a robbery of his shop. After his death, my mother continue to work as a jeweler, but was not as good at it and her two oldest children also started working to support the family. ...

Ideas for generating characters… I wish I had something that would come up with random character backgrounds, like Central Casting. (Friends- If you have borrowed my copy of Central Casting, please let me know. I think I loaned it to someone in my Altaia game group, but I’m not sure.) Central Casting has a lot of detail, and creates a pretty complete background, but it has drawbacks. 1. it takes a lot of time to generate one character, 2. it is appropriate for medieval/fantasy only, and 3. I have currently mislaid my copy so I can’t use it anyway. ...

Today’s writing brought to you by the King of Cups, Eight of Wands, Four of Cups, and Seven of Swords.

Not much writing practice tonight. I am instead going walking to 7-11. However, I have some cards I should study: Prince of Pentacles, Queen of Swords, Four of Swords, and Prince of Wands.

Today’s random writing is brought to you by: the Five of Swords, the Four of Cups, and the Ace of Wands. 5S. Five of Swords Tempering, purifying, cutting away. Energy, courage, defense of the wronged, might for right. That which is temporal will be cut away or burned away. If reversed: Cruelty, wanton destruction, misuse of power. The subject of this card (not necessarily the Querent) has not yet learned that we receive what we give, or that we are all one, and that what is done to one is done to all. ...