The Travail of Passion
Oct. 5th, 2005 12:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbCollege Freshers' week is going well. I've only ::laughs:: joined four societies so far - climbing, rifle club, historical and athletics - and my timetable looks like it's going to be manageable. And the libraries.
::drools::
I have library love. Trinity has a copy - supposedly - of every book published in the UK and Ireland.
::tongue hanging out of mouth::
::Gollum voice::
Boookssss Yes, precious, bookses. Lots and lots of bookses (and no nasty hobbitses to ask us to pay for them).
Progress notes Tuesday October 04
"Dreamdark"
Words today 1017
Words total 13,633
Warning. Pure waffle follows:
Horror. Evil plot intrigues are growing tentacles like some kind of Hydra-octopus.
I think I have a way to deal with the lack of information directly available to my protagonists (the intercepted letter, oh my), and I have a handle on the conflict I need to throw my third POV character into (I'm going to throw her to the wolves, and let well-meaning but deluded priests gnaw on her carcase), but ye gods and little fishes, this is an awkward draft. I'm writing absolute crap - not plot-crap, I don't think, but characterisation crap and description crap.
I do have one sentence I like. Well, one part-sentence.
Against whitewashed cottages in the dying, cloud-scattered sun...
And it's utterly inappropriate for what I want it to do.
Oh, well. At least I have a good idea where I'm going (Map! road!map! outline framework!), and I'm not wrestling with private demons screaming in my ear Does! Not! Make! Sense! I don't know if it does make sense, but hey, maybe it does.
I don't know how to write a novel. But I'm learning.
::drools::
I have library love. Trinity has a copy - supposedly - of every book published in the UK and Ireland.
::tongue hanging out of mouth::
::Gollum voice::
Boookssss Yes, precious, bookses. Lots and lots of bookses (and no nasty hobbitses to ask us to pay for them).
Progress notes Tuesday October 04
"Dreamdark"
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Words today 1017
Words total 13,633
Warning. Pure waffle follows:
Horror. Evil plot intrigues are growing tentacles like some kind of Hydra-octopus.
I think I have a way to deal with the lack of information directly available to my protagonists (the intercepted letter, oh my), and I have a handle on the conflict I need to throw my third POV character into (I'm going to throw her to the wolves, and let well-meaning but deluded priests gnaw on her carcase), but ye gods and little fishes, this is an awkward draft. I'm writing absolute crap - not plot-crap, I don't think, but characterisation crap and description crap.
I do have one sentence I like. Well, one part-sentence.
Against whitewashed cottages in the dying, cloud-scattered sun...
And it's utterly inappropriate for what I want it to do.
Oh, well. At least I have a good idea where I'm going (Map! road!map! outline framework!), and I'm not wrestling with private demons screaming in my ear Does! Not! Make! Sense! I don't know if it does make sense, but hey, maybe it does.
I don't know how to write a novel. But I'm learning.
