It's been a while, huh? I could say a whole bunch of things to explain my absence, but they'd all just sound like excuses. So rather I'll start off by saying that I plan to update this blog once a week on Sundays. Most likely afternoons. Kind of perfect, don't you think? Fits with the theme.
Anyway.
Due to a suggestion from my friend, M. S. Steed, I'm going to use this blog to post a little more than just book reviews. Maybe a snippet of writing here or there, a little about my day, more of an all purpose blog I suppose. A little like hers. (If you haven't alread, go check hers out!) But mainly I think I'll stick to books. At least if I can manage to read a book a week... which generally isn't a problem for me, but you can imagine I'm a little tighter for time what with school having started and me being a student.
Now that I've dedicated myself to updating once a week, I'll spare some time to mention my current project. It's been on a small hiatus because it's been wearing me down a little and I refuse to write something I'm sick of/don't enjoy writing. I expect to pick it up tomorrow or the next day. But I digress. Currently it is going under the name of 'Spindles', although is very susceptible to change. It's a Steampunk/Fairytale mix, and my quick pitch for it is: "Two unlikely people must bond together to save the Steampunk city of Blackpool from a dark conspiracy. Will this fairytale have a happily ever after?" As with the classical fairytales, there is a princess, prince charming, 'magic', strange creatures and a castle. The steampunk comes in when we bring up the setting. It's some 300 years after the world has ended and the remains of humanity are figuring out how to function as the society they once were.
I know the latest thing in fiction is 'angels' and while I've always been in love with the idea, it's not something I've really acted on. Mostly because I don't want to betray my 54,000+ word story. With any luck I'll manage to finish Spindles off before NaNoWriMo, and then use that month to do something with Angels... I don't know. To qoute NCIS, my 'mind is like a pachinko machine.' There are so many ideas clamoring for attention it's crazy.
In general I tend to write what I want. I figure if I'm not having fun, why bother? This of course leads to dozens of half-finished projects or random sentences or partly developed characters and relationships I never plan to revisit. I just hope to keep my attention focused on Spindles long enough to finish it, as it means a lot to me.
So much to write...
so little time.
I'll update next week with a review on Mockingjay.
Until next time,
MJ
Hey, Morgan,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the plug! I really appreciate it.
With writing, it's the same for me. I'll toy with an idea for awhile and sometimes it will stick and exapnd into a full stories, but most of the time the stories get stagnant quickly. Sometimes, though, I'll take the characters I really like out of one story and put them in another story. I've had characters that have moved through as many as seven or eight stories. If you really like the characters, but not the story, you could give that a try.
Other writers have told me the same thing, and I'm getting the feeling writer's only finish about 1/3 of the stories they come up with. So don't feel bad. But if you're bored with a story, it's definately hard to keep going. Sometimes it's good to persist, but sometimes it's best to let it go... of course, that's the writer's discretion.
I'm glad you're gonna be updating often! I really look forward to it!
~M
Happy to help :)
ReplyDeleteI find that I tend to do that as well. Pick characters out of failed works and refine them for another story.
I think that I'm going to stick with Spindles anyway. I really do love the story. It's just my internal critic is threatening to break out of its cage. That on top of all of the other, non-Spindles related ideas I have make it hard to keep at it.
That does seem to be a recurring factor. I've started a number of stories and never finished them. My heart's set on this one though.
Haha the one good thing about school is it gets me used to schedules again.
-MJ