I've loved to write ever since my english teacher Mrs. Cameron in high school read my story to the class and everyone liked it.
Since then I've barfed out reams of terrible poetry and amassed notebooks and text files across myriad devices with story and character and setting ideas, mostly sci-fi, some literary, some journalistic non-fic ... the vast majority unfinished and large chunks of it lost in various crashes and poor data management situations. Did you know that ms word has a character limit for a single file and if you hit it, it's corrupts large swaths of the file and every time you open it, it corrupts more of the file? Maybe Bill has fixed that by now.
In university (English/journalism) I always took the question where you write a story, or a new chapter, and also took a few specifically creative writing classes. Without the structure of a class I was never able to get a lot of work completed.
Enter nanowrimo a few years ago and a job that had me in a quiet house all morning, which made me realize I could write a singular work and set my own deadline and actually stick to it.
Now I have 120,000 words of near-future sci-fi robot/AI adventures with a terrible structure, unkept promises and way too much ... gilding of the lilies ... if that means what I think it means ... or philosophizing ... if I knew what was wrong with it, I would be rich and famous.
Luckily I am not counting on a writing career but there is so much amazing writing stuff going on between twitter, podcasts, self-publishing and whatnot I just find myself getting deeper into it all the time.
Since then I've barfed out reams of terrible poetry and amassed notebooks and text files across myriad devices with story and character and setting ideas, mostly sci-fi, some literary, some journalistic non-fic ... the vast majority unfinished and large chunks of it lost in various crashes and poor data management situations. Did you know that ms word has a character limit for a single file and if you hit it, it's corrupts large swaths of the file and every time you open it, it corrupts more of the file? Maybe Bill has fixed that by now.
In university (English/journalism) I always took the question where you write a story, or a new chapter, and also took a few specifically creative writing classes. Without the structure of a class I was never able to get a lot of work completed.
Enter nanowrimo a few years ago and a job that had me in a quiet house all morning, which made me realize I could write a singular work and set my own deadline and actually stick to it.
Now I have 120,000 words of near-future sci-fi robot/AI adventures with a terrible structure, unkept promises and way too much ... gilding of the lilies ... if that means what I think it means ... or philosophizing ... if I knew what was wrong with it, I would be rich and famous.
Luckily I am not counting on a writing career but there is so much amazing writing stuff going on between twitter, podcasts, self-publishing and whatnot I just find myself getting deeper into it all the time.
) but it is good to know.
