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[apocalypsos]

Yay! I got the original story chapter I was rewriting all done this morning. *happy dance*

This doesn't sound like an accomplishment until you realize how long I've been working on that one annoying bastard because my uber-perfectionist would not stop kicking in. Also, I'm changing the entire novel from alternating between third- and first-person POV to just first-person POV, which means I'm scrapping large chunks of the book and rewriting new ones.

But, hey, a whole chapter. That's good, right? Encourage me, damn you. I feel like a lazy jackass.

In other news, I may not get to go see PoA this weekend if I don't get my ass over to the movie theater after work and buy tickets tonight. Oh, this should be loads of fun, especially considering I'm going to have to play Metro hopscotch at about ten at night to get over there. Lovely. *end sarcasm*

Comments

[rani23.livejournal.com]

YAY! A whole chapter!! When are you going to let us read it? :)

[sekari.livejournal.com]

A chapter is quite an accomplishment. I've got a book that I've been working on for a few years that is still in the notes/outline stage because I keep changing parts of it and adding things. There's nothing wrong with being a perfectionist. Though it is frustrating when I look at other people I know who just seem to be able to exhale pages and pages of stuff. Oh well.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, thankfully, I tend to be a "once I jump over this impressively high hurdle, I'll be on a roll" kind of a writer, so that bodes well for my future rewriting speed. And it doesn't hurt that I know the whole story and all of the details and stuff now, unlike the first time I wrote it, where it was basically making it up as I go.

Urgh. Now I'm itching to write and I have to leave for work in twenty minutes. Hate my job, yes, I do. *grrrr*

[sekari.livejournal.com]

yeah, I know what you mean about job hating. I have just enough time in between tasks to mess around on LJ or something, but not enough to do any writing. And then when I get home I can't bare to look at a computer screen most days.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I think most of my problem is that I'm working an eight-hour shift that takes up eleven hours of my day because of commuting and whatnot. And just for added fun, if Bosslady catches me writing down story notes, I get a lecture about how everybody else can see me do it and will get pissed at me for it. (Everybody else, meanwhile, could give two shits what the hell I do. But I try to lay off on writing stuff until she leaves. Better not to have to deal with a lecture. *sigh*)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

you can't pretend it's some official stuff you are writing? guess that is the curse of bosslady knowing you (quite well)?

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Those other people exhale pages because they get the story out -first- and damn the plotholes. Later is for going back and fixing it...

[sekari.livejournal.com]

I hate that. Whenever I see a movie or a show that was written poorly or rushed with obvious plotholes and inconsistancies I'm so bewildered as to how that can be allowed to happen. I mean, people invest time, expertise, and enormous sums of money into these productions. Why is it that no one seems to care that the premise or plot doesn't make sense?

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

goood job!

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

www.fandango.com
www.movietickets.com

Buy now, hopscotch later.

12:01am Friday morning, baybee.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The only problem is I don't have a credit card. *grumble*

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

You need to get one of those Visas you can put money on so you can use those sites!!!

Or give the cash to someone and let them put it on their card for you while you watch looming over them like the spectre of death so you can get the confirmation number!

[sekari.livejournal.com]

that would be problematic. Do you have only one or two theaters in the area? It seems like you encounter sellouts a lot.

[tree220.livejournal.com]

buy the tickets online

[lots42.livejournal.com]

PoA?

I read that as Pirates of Azkaban and now I'm thinking of UberGay!Potter in eyeshadow.

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Oooh, a chapter! Nice one. And damn damn damn those perspective changes. I wrote half my book in first person, decided it was crap (it was), got to about the same point in third person, and now I miss some of the first person bits but it still wouldn't all work and aaaaaargh.
Ahem. Sorry about that... and go you with the writing things!

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

Is this the same novel you sent out the first few chapters of a while back?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Nope, this is a different one. This one I already have finished, it just needs a massive rewrite from beginning to end. (Which I now consider myself in the thick of, but the good thing is that the plot and characters and things like that are already done, I just have to rewrite POV and dialogue and stuff. Yay, me. :))

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

*encourages* Good girl!

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

It's been pointed out to me that just by getting any actual writing done you're doing better than most of the population. So, yay!

Now go write more.