| Life and Writing Updates |
[Jul. 25th, 2008|04:10 pm] |
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Apparently after two weeks my foot isn't healing. So I'm getting it casted on Monday. Joy.
I'm also back to enjoying the single life. I don't particularly want to talk about the reasons. I've already repeated it three times and I'm sick of telling it. I just want to forget and move on.
In spite of all this, I'm actually rather happy right now. And I'm not even medicated.
I've started work on an original horror novel. I'm only a little over 3,000 words into it, but I'm really optimistic about it. I won't give much specific information here since I'm hoping to try for publication someday. Only a select few friends are allowed advance previews and plot details. All I will say is that I am a wimp when it comes to psychological horror (I also love it. Go figure.), so it's a miracle that I'm actually managing to write this thing. Especially since it involves a number of elements that actively scare the shit out of me. Which is probably a good thing, because if it scares me, there's a decent chance it might scare someone else. I'm fairly optimistic about that, too. I showed the rough prologue to someone and she said it made her cry. (Not in terror though, it just happened to be a very emotionally jarring sequence.) Actually, in the original concept, this story was going to be written as a movie script, because a lot of the scenes seemed like they would play out really well on the big screen. Plus it could be done fairly low budget due to the horror being almost purely psychological. But I made it through almost one whole scene before realizing something: I can't write movie scripts to save my life.
To any readers of my fanfiction who may see this: Don't worry. My fic What if..? hasn't been abandoned. I've just taken a short hiatus from it on account of really not being in the mood. I also haven't forgotten about my promise to answer questions about Checkmate. Failing major emergencies or complete computer/internet failure, those will still be posted sometime in early August. That update will also include further information on my fanfiction future and maybe even a few more details about my original projects. So stay tuned.
I've pretty well figured it out. Even if I never sell a single novel, I'll be writing my whole life. Even if I go blind and lose the use of both my hands, I'll find a way. I'll probably be dictating twelve stories on my death bed just to get them out before I go.
Morbid? Maybe. But it feels good to say.
Vivo; por lo tanto, escribo.
(Translation: I live; therefore, I write.) |
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