609. Describe the best piece of writing that you’ve ever constructed. What makes this the best in your mind? Also, write about what you think you would need to do to top it.
Cohen, Bryan (2010). 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More (Kindle Locations 1304-1305). Kindle Edition.
There are a few, actually, that stick in my head. The “meeting the family” story that I did with Grim and Kalius and then with Dimitrius and Kalius; the first half of the chapter of Jagermeister; the first chapter of the Taurin (need to change that) cycle; Grimaulkin’s first novel.
I love writing “meeting the family” stories. Characters that are well-established, meeting people for the first time, who know their “partner” are a lot of fun to write. I see the character through another person’s eyes, and the character is able to see what other people truly think of him. How to top it? Rewrite it – and that’s a plan.
The first chapter of Jagermeister (Luther Waldemar, my WW2 novel) starts with the line, “When he thought she’d sucked enough, he pushed her off of him.” I think after Hitler arrives is when it starts to go south.
The Taurin cycle starts well enough. I think the whole society, though, is a little bit of a stretch. The society I imagined was that there was a place called North Hampshire which took up half of Maine. This place was protected by magic, that modern technology couldn’t work in it. Anything with a circuit did not work at all. Guns did, but there were laws against it. The Muirland, however, was added later and technology such as older model cars were able to work, but computers, no. It’s long, complicated, and was written in my SCA days. Needs a bad rewrite.
I really, really am proud of Grim’s first novel. I know it needs some work. No one’s suffered through it enough. Maybe if I just put it out there on Kindle at a cheap price of $4.99 that someone will pick it up and possibly tear it apart on the boards. This was my New Year’s resolution. Today’s affirmation in the “Artist’s Way” says that “When we shift our inner statement from ‘I’d love to’ to ‘I’m going to,’ we shift out of victim and into adventurer.”
After getting my son’s new computer, and paying the bills…I’m going to talk to Cold Soldier again and see what he can do, since he did a whole shitton of research earlier this year.