Writing Update
Jun. 16th, 2003 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanIt's been, I think, two weeks since I wrote anything using the computer. My office is in an advanced state of, well, practically decomposition, in truth, though I was going to say chaos. Though I did not do so in conscious reaction against this mess, I have in fact resurrected a practice that I first fell into with Pat Wrede, back when we both had day jobs in downtown Minneapolis; and later used successfully with Raphael. Pat and I (who were sometimes joined, I recall, by Will and Emma) called it a writing lunch; Raphael and I called it a writing hour, though it often went longer. I suggested it to Eric, calling it a writing date; and when I reminded Raphael of what we used to do, received the suggestion that since we both had work we were avoiding that could be done in company, the two of us might try having a working hour or date as well.
The idea is that, for the time determined on, one does nothing but work or attempt to work on whatever one has brought to deal with. I remember contemplating bringing my taxes to a writing lunch, but I knew I'd get a withering commentary from Pat. Mostly what I've done in all these sessions is writing.
The result of this for me, this time around, is a total of about 2500 words, which I have still not typed in. However, I've just succumbed to the forecast, which says 88 degrees as the high today, and turned on my office air conditioner. Climatic comfort obviates a certain degree of the effect of chaos, so this might work.
I am especially pleased that during the last session with Eric, which, I am smug to relate, occurred on a Sunday morning after coffee but before breakfast, I finally got the two main characters whom I have not used before onto the page. I wasn't planning to have them be viewpoint characters, but they are going to be. I quite like them. I'm a little worried about the structure of the book, with so many points of view. I know it's a solved problem for many another writer, but I haven't solved it yet.
Pamela
The idea is that, for the time determined on, one does nothing but work or attempt to work on whatever one has brought to deal with. I remember contemplating bringing my taxes to a writing lunch, but I knew I'd get a withering commentary from Pat. Mostly what I've done in all these sessions is writing.
The result of this for me, this time around, is a total of about 2500 words, which I have still not typed in. However, I've just succumbed to the forecast, which says 88 degrees as the high today, and turned on my office air conditioner. Climatic comfort obviates a certain degree of the effect of chaos, so this might work.
I am especially pleased that during the last session with Eric, which, I am smug to relate, occurred on a Sunday morning after coffee but before breakfast, I finally got the two main characters whom I have not used before onto the page. I wasn't planning to have them be viewpoint characters, but they are going to be. I quite like them. I'm a little worried about the structure of the book, with so many points of view. I know it's a solved problem for many another writer, but I haven't solved it yet.
Pamela
