Progress report

[alex_beecroft]

Well, it's been a disastrous week of writing. Only 2,700 words the whole week - not helped by the fact that I had such a headache yesterday and today that I didn't do any at all. On the other hand, Captain Quinn has now sailed into the story, so things should get easier next week, in terms of there being drama enough! If I just write down dialogue it'll be something :)

I also missed the fortnightly meeting of my real life writer's group, which I was looking forward to but couldn't face.

"Witch's Boy" turns out to have a typo three pages in, which I missed last time around, so its release will have to be put back to October while I rigourously check it for others, and put it through the re-submission process.

On the plus side, I've discovered that roleplaying a character really is an excellent way to get to know them (as well as being fantastic fun by itself). I've been test-driving Lieutenant John Cavendish on the slash_on_ships RPG, and have discovered all sorts of things about him which I didn't know before. (I had no idea he was such a nervous virgin!)

So if I can manage to be well next week, I hope the fact that John is now real to me will help with the writing. Not quite 3,000 words in a week is a bit dire!

Comments

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

I hadn't tried RPing as a way to sort of bump-start your characterization before :) I like it a lot, but I'm not sure it's going to be widely possible to do in future.

I suppose 2,700 isn't so bad. I used to do half of that when I was writing Tolkien fic, and it still mounted up. But on a good week I know I can do 5,000. Still, on a good week I don't spend the bigger part of the day in bed :)

How are you these days?

[mirien.livejournal.com]

Spending most of my days in bed! M.E is really giving me problems at the moment, I'm doing the whole reclusive thing, perforce. Getting a wheelchair in the next few weeks (I hope) so that'll make trips out less exhausting.

Doing ok though, I'll phone at some point, if that's alright?

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

That sounds dreadful! Is there really nothing anyone can do? Did you ever hear more from that specialist, or am I dreaming that you went to an ME specialist?

I'm glad to hear that you're feeling relatively cheerful though! And yes, please do phone, that will be great :)