Writer's Block: Novel Ideas

[fourzoas]

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A horribly edited screed against the lack of sane moderation on lj_nanowrimo which is causing a deluge of "look how many words I wrote today" posts clogging the tubes of my flist. *

I'm at ~300 words so far today. I'm about to settle in for a skosh of writing. I won't be spamming the world with my count; that's what the NaNo site is for.

*This, of course, is not the actual novel I'm writing. I'm actually writing a pretentious and self-indulgent novel based on a sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Srsly.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I'm actually writing a pretentious and self-indulgent novel based on a sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Srsly.

Which sonnet?

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

"What lips my lips have kissed and where and why"

Although now the whole thing has morphed to be about the house that doesn't exist down the street from me. So I'm toning down the pretension, which is good, because that lasted for about 2 paragraphs before I got bored with myself! LOL. The house is much more interesting, I think.

[radiantbaby.livejournal.com]

I love the idea for your novel -- but then I am a pretentious sod myself sometimes. :)

My own work is only about 1667 words at the moment. I'm a bit worried because I wonder if I may have blown my Handy/alt!Martha wad completely on "Ardor in Binary" (I am doing the "Tinker, Tailor..." fic for Nano). Hopefully not, but this story is definitely much more slow going than "Ardor..." was.

Ah well..

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

It's hard to strip away the taint of academe, I find...still, since I shifted to the house that isn't there (see upthread response to pers), I'm feeling much better, less pretentious, and there's actually a chance for the frame to work AND that there might actually even be a plot. I really dove into NaNo with very little planning.

Keep at Tinker Tailor--maybe hop around in it, write the bits that appeal and leave the others? Or maybe step away from the frame at first and write outside of it? I know that makes absolutely no sense and you should know that I tend to offer unsolicited advice--I vomit it up compulsively and don't expect anyone to take it ever.

I'm having trouble with the chapter-after-next of I'll Meet You; I'm having no difficulty writing the end of the story and the bits after the chapter that's vexing me, but that chapter is just not happening. I think I'm trying to make them have a conversation or that they're trying to have it in a way they don't want to. All I know is, I've got to get Martha into the shower....