Friday Rants and Raves - March 14

[sarillia]

It's that time again! I don't know about you but the weeks are just flying by for me. It's kind of scaring me.

These weekly posts have been helping me. I got some work done yesterday because I wanted to be able to brag about it today. :p

I hope you're enjoying them too.

Today's picture is called The Wounded Angel by Hugo Simberg.

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[sarillia]

I've started a new story that I will hopefully be able to submit to one of the open calls that agilebrit was nice enough to tell us about.

I was having another one of my "I suck and no one is ever going to want to read anything I write" crises of confidence but I think I'm getting past it. I think I know what's at the heart of it now. It's a worry that my writing is shallow, like a little kid playing house without understanding what it's really like to be an adult. I feel like I don't have enough life experience to make my characters' problems feel real. But I'm going to do my best and I really should stop writing it off before getting anyone else's opinion. So now I'm just going to write.

[agilebrit]

That painting is oddly apropos of one of my WIPs. Which I will get back to one of these days, when I finish these other projects. That part where I Am Not A Novel Writer? Yeah.

My current thing is driving me crazy. I have, at least, figured out how to "skip the boring parts," but it doesn't change the fact that my protagonist is not exactly protagging in this--he's reacting, rather than acting, and at the end he's the damn Princess who needs rescuing. I really need to rectify this. Somehow.

[ayumidah]

I've been getting a little accomplished here and there, real life is being tricky again, but I'm managing.

Then the other night I got hit with a fic idea and an original story idea at the same time and had to type them up really fast before they bled together and confused me, haha.

[splinteredstar]

This week has been frustrating and occasionally infuriating, of the "I would set you on fire with my mind but i have ice cream at home" variety. I have been self-medicating with rock music and Discworld novels.

But early in the week I started...a thing. I was bored and started writing, which is how my ideas start. I have no idea what it is, or if it will even be a thing, and it is so far veering wildly between horror and comedy. But involves a rebellious teenage boy who sneaks out to speak to his grandfather. Who is a eldritch Elder God who doesn't want to rule mortals (like his daughter and son-in-law) as much as he'd like them to get the hell off his lawn. Nevertheless, he has a certain fondness for his mixed-species grandson, as long as the kid brings a live rabbit and the good whiskey.

I don't know what the story behind this set up is, but just the set up amuses the hell of me, so I'm going with it.

[lady_phenyx]

My week's been incredibly frustrating. I've been sick all week and too muzzy headed to do much more than play a mindless game or two to pass the time. I wish I was kidding, but it's the truth. Spent a lot of time asleep or wishing I was. Today's the first day I've been clear-headed enough to try writing. Getting back on the routine is tough after falling off. I forgot where I was taking the story I need to finish, to add to my frustration.

[lunabee34]

What a creepy painting. That boy's gaze is so malevolent. *shivers*

Glad you got some work done!

I did too; I wrote a draft of a personal essay and got great feedback from my group in terms of expansion. I'm going to work on a new piece for our next submission round and then work on revising this essay for the following. I think if I alternate new pieces and revisions, it'll keep me (and the group!) from getting bored.