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Makes you shake.
Last night I had a drink and dinner out with someone I'd been trying to get in touch with for a while. It was a struggle to get up to the point of feeling social, since I'd had a frustrating afternoon at my volunteer gig - I knew my supervisor wanted searchable tags added to articles hosted on the webpage, but he didn't know the vocabulary, and I did, and got irritated that I couldn't just step in and tell him what I knew he wanted - and I also knew I'd lose an evening of computer-based productivity. But it was worth it, and the cider was tasty, and I had fun. I'll have to do it again sometime.
Until that happens, I'm feeling kind of sheepish tonight.
I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" What isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!
I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.
And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.
So, if you wanted, ask me questions!
What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? And so on.
Until that happens, I'm feeling kind of sheepish tonight.
I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" What isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!
I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.
And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.
So, if you wanted, ask me questions!
What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? And so on.