125 posts later…
I never realized how much fun this actually is, although I haven’t done 800 words per day. I find myself not writing daily, either. Hell, it’s hard enough to take meds.
I am what’s called a “discovery writer”, or I write by the seat of my pants. I have an idea, and I sit down and let loose. Or, more accurately, I have a scene with characters or even just disembodied voices talking, and I NEED to write it down. Or I place the characters on a stage and let them go to it. Like I wrote in another blog, when I RP in the video game I play (City of Heroes @Kill Favored or @Grimaulkin) one of my characters seems to write himself, and I feel like I’m the director in the pit of the stage laughing uproariously with the audience even while he deviates wildly away from the script. Most of the time, that’s what I do – I let them write themselves.
Sometimes the characters will get themselves boxed into corners (Most recently Casey and his cruelty at interrogating Family) and I have to deus ex machina them out of it. With some, I’ve let stay in the corner (Grimaulkin).
You may have noticed less categories. What my rules are is that if after, say, two weeks or so, a certain character has no stories on them, I will remove the entry’s category and put them in as “orphans” and instead give them the character name as a tag. Bomber’s an exception, because he’s an ongoing favorite of mine for RP and I want to play with him as time goes on.
“Orphans” is the part of my junk drawer that holds stuff that had really good beginnings but I ran out of gas. Maybe I will return to them some day because the muses are still holding hushed discussions about them.
“Junk” is just uncategorized stuff that is separated by tags and not categories. Self-standing story prompts not using a character I’ve established, bits of meaningless scenes, etc.
Recently, a lot of my writing has consisted of roleplaying on the above-mentioned game. I want to be able to count that as words in, because that is using the creative portion of my brain. But then that would also include blog entries (of which I have 3 that I keep up with), and email between people. That would be stupid to count. So unless you see something here for the day, look at my gaming blog or my personal blog – if you dare. If you see nothing in those places, then you can flog me for not making my quota. Also, if I write more than one scene a day, I’m going to probably put it here as separate scenes and combine the number of words as I go along.
…as an aside, this is what I’m going through. When I RP with others, though, this can’t happen without someone screaming “EMO!” at me – and Casey is sure as hell not emo (Bomber, Masonry, yes. Grim will damn you to hell for calling him that and proceed to prove you wrong). So I guess I’m glad I’m not in a vacuum or I’d be wallowing in depression or cruelty.