Friday Rants and Raves - April 25

[sarillia]

Happy Friday everyone! I haven't done this in a while but we're back. Hopefully you all have lots of good things to talk about , but I want to hear about the bad stuff too if you need someone to commiserate with. How has your writing life been lately?

Continuing with my ongoing presentation of the pictures in my "inspiration" collection, today we have James Skelton Smith's Courting the Moon.

Comments

[sarillia]

Ah okay, I can understand that. I get that way with historical fiction because I start worrying about all the little things I could get wrong just because I don't know everything that I don't know so how do I know to research some things that I would never think of?

Maybe it would be best to do what you've been doing and collect those bits and pieces on the side. You could take the research one bit at a time as well as the character and world and plot stuff.

On the other hand it might be better to face it head on since that baggage you were talking about from working on it so long might just increase as time goes on. I don't know.

If you ever want to bounce ideas off someone you can PM me or find me on Skype.

[inkdust]

Thanks. Yeah, it's a similar situation to historical stuff. No wonder everyone used to say "write what you know," lol. I'd much rather be able to make everything up. But we'll see what happens, and I'll keep you updated. How are your stories going?

[sarillia]

I'm being really lazy. It's not even a writer's block problem or anything. I've learned to tell the difference between a problem that means I need to step back and look at what I'm doing and sheer laziness, and this is the latter.

I've made some progress on my Little Mermaid story though.

[inkdust]

I know what you mean. Lazy is an annoying beast. But that's good about the Mermaid!