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the poetry of letters
Booknuttery is a journal dedicated specifically to literature -- the reading of books, the writing of novels and everything in between. Currently most of booknuttery deals with the novel I'm writing -- a fantasy type adventure story that keeps smacking into block after block.
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Page 21, 11,254 words, Chapter Five.
Important Names Novel-Wise:
Willow Gray -- the nerd-tacular protagonist.
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the perfect components for novel writing: I'm playing songs like "Is This Real" by Lisa Hall and "Teardrop" by Massive Attack. I've got the characters more planned out than I ever have and they are all working PLUS, there has been a blizzard raging most of the night and the ground is covered in about five centimetres of new snow. I'm on page 15, and I'm going to try and write at least two more pages tonight. I've been working on it on and off all day -- its coming along splendidly. 11:38 p.m. }} Tuesday, October 28, 2003 oh god, let me finish this novel. But this one is definitely (hopefully) not crap. The character is once again Willow Gray, but I've wrote her in the first person. I've also added the character of Aunt Jane who basically makes up my favourite idea of the Coolest Old Lady. I've made a list of some of the people that will be in the town, thus far tentatively called "Shell-Of-the-Sea". Its a fairly quaint, quirky place that just happens to be mysteriously plagued with murders and various supernatural events and so on and so forth. Hey. It worked for Jessica Fletcher. I'm back to work on it now -- NaNoWriMo is in less than a week and I'm fairly certain I'll be able to tack an extra fifty thou onto the current 3413 words. 12:57 a.m. }} Tuesday, October 28, 2003 I just kind of uh, started another novel.Two pages on this one, and I like it much better. More news as the progress continues... 02:30 a.m. }} Sunday, August 10, 2003 I'm feeling mighty poetic lately and I think I'll probably sit down at some inspired moment and write down some random things...I'm trying to convince my mom and aunt thats it would be most cool to take this cemetery tour of one of the oldest graveyards in Regina, but they thinks its "morbid" and "creepy". Sigh. I've been thinking lots about the ol' novel since I've been out here. I meant to take my backup disk with me so that I could work on it should I find access to a computer, but I completely forgot. Now I'm stuck with just my tiny writing notebook thats mostly filled up... I have to seriously think, I think, about the direction I want the characters to go. Too often I tend to have this habit of simply telling whats happening instead of shading it in with thoughts, feelings... I need to learn to let the scenery describe itself, to let the characters portray who they are rather than tell who they are. I'm thinking of putting Willow Gray as the "main" character. I think that might work well since I feel I know her character more than any other. Also, on the vacation -- I went mad-crazy at Chapters and purchased:
- The Wayfarer Redemption I've been doing a ton of reading and it is wonderful. 11:03 a.m. }} Saturday, July 12, 2003 I am a monkey with a typewriter. Promise. (Also I enjoy telling people I'm "writing a novel". This makes me seem less like an out-of-school janitor and more like a debonair author-about-town.) 01:45 a.m. }} Tuesday, June 24, 2003 Here's the thing:I was listening to someone read selected chapters from one of Stephen King's novels, and I was marvelling at the detailed description -- I can't help but think that my characters are too one-dimensional, that their like puppets mouthing lines. My main problem is getting into their head, bringing out their insecurities, individual quirks and potentially dangerous flaws. Each of the characters are different from the other -- George is laid-back, dorky, but a survivor. Field is oppurtunistic, sneaky and quick to anger. Willow is humourous and stubborn -- each of these characters has flaws however, certain likes and dislikes. I need to make them more than their stereotypical appearances, if that makes sense. I'm having a hard time bringing them out of simple adjectives and painting them as actual people. (Given the fact that one of the main characters is a cat, you can see my problem.) I haven't worked on the novel in two days, which is Not Good, but I solemnly pledge not to restart the restarted restart. A thousand promises. Really. Maybe I'll get to work on Chapter Three after I clean my room and do the laundry. It looks like it may rain outside, so thats always helpful thunderous fuel for the ol' literary fire... 02:44 p.m. }} Wednesday, June 18, 2003 |
