A quick status of the writer
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apocalypsos-- Am still trying to get over my damn cold already so I can stop fighting the urge to sleep when I get home and write instead. I need to remind my body that once upon a time -- as in, oh, last year at about this time -- we did actually manage to get through the day sometimes with only five hours of sleep, so this eight-hour BS has GOT to go.
-- Have opened a file for my Big Bang, but haven't really written anything in it just yet because there's a handful of episodes I need to rewatch before I start. I'd say which ones, but that'd kinda give away which femslash pairing I'm writing, although if anybody really cares that much it's in the comments of the Big Bang sign-ups anyway. Heh. ;)
-- Have about 800 words in Gilded, which I may or may retitle as Merry Jane just because I spotted somebody with that actual name at work yesterday and my main character's name is Jane and ... well, it just sort of fits. Although Gilded does, too. Er. I'm horribly indecisive at times. Have I ever mentioned that? *headdesk*
-- Haven't even begun to work on editing the two chapters from GPW I swore I'd get done by Monday. Hey, remember when I was laid off and I had all of the time in the world to write and I developed a stress-induced case of writer's block? And how I said that I'd get a job and suddenly my urge to write would come back and I'd be cramming for the time to do it? I'm PSYCHIC, you guys.
-- OMG NEW PROJECT RUNWAY TONIGHT! (Hey, it's technically related to the status of the writer. I'm fucking ECSTATIC, seriously. :D)
-- Have opened a file for my Big Bang, but haven't really written anything in it just yet because there's a handful of episodes I need to rewatch before I start. I'd say which ones, but that'd kinda give away which femslash pairing I'm writing, although if anybody really cares that much it's in the comments of the Big Bang sign-ups anyway. Heh. ;)
-- Have about 800 words in Gilded, which I may or may retitle as Merry Jane just because I spotted somebody with that actual name at work yesterday and my main character's name is Jane and ... well, it just sort of fits. Although Gilded does, too. Er. I'm horribly indecisive at times. Have I ever mentioned that? *headdesk*
-- Haven't even begun to work on editing the two chapters from GPW I swore I'd get done by Monday. Hey, remember when I was laid off and I had all of the time in the world to write and I developed a stress-induced case of writer's block? And how I said that I'd get a job and suddenly my urge to write would come back and I'd be cramming for the time to do it? I'm PSYCHIC, you guys.
-- OMG NEW PROJECT RUNWAY TONIGHT! (Hey, it's technically related to the status of the writer. I'm fucking ECSTATIC, seriously. :D)
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Date: 2010-01-15 09:46 pm (UTC)So, how do you come up with your titles? Because that's the hardest part for me.
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Date: 2010-01-16 12:29 pm (UTC)So, how do you come up with your titles?
Well, lately what I've been doing is writing down words to describe my main characters or the situations they're in, popping them in an online thesaurus and brainstorming with what comes up. Sometimes I just stick with the obvious (The Grand Prize Winner is about precisely that) and sometimes I'll come up with a title and the story comes later. It's basically a lot of throwing things at walls and seeing what sticks, mostly.