Tuesday 4 August 2009

Writing is An ESSAY

Sorry about the last post, viewers of which I have just one but heck. (Maybe I can steal some from Got Medieval if I write GOOOOOOAAAAAAAAA!! in the comments, On another note I was completely ignored by Kate Beaton after pimping her on my facebook so much, when attempting to get her intrested in Horrible Histories. Maybe I should post on Got Medievial. Man am I off topic!) But I was tired and expect this blog to be full of badly written grammer and paragraphs as all my work goes on my novel, so fuck it if I write like a loony here.

Anyway I am trying to explain how writing a novel is not easy, it's basically writing an essay. It's easy to write as though you were talking, rattling off chapter after chapter but a really good book takes time. You need to plan out when certain things happen, when character x recognises emotion x etc. etc. (the last part is really important in my current book) I spent four days re-writing the last three small chapters until I was completely satisfied.
*GASP* have I become a perfectionist?

I must thank my Father for helping me out, with this. He who poked and poked me to re-write my essays until it was no longer an unfocused mess but a focused essay and hopefully my novel will also become focused.
Man I wish I was older, sometimes

(pros: People won't gasp when i tell them my real age, nicer menfolk (hopefully, or those thirty year old Thai men who became my good friends were just flukes), no more bitchy girls, not having to feel i'm inclined to go out drinking when I turn into an emotional poet after just one shot, can deal with sudden changes in moods better
Cons: having to get married and have children as society demands, getting wrinkles, having to work full time, feel like life is slipping away, parents getting older and get more bad natured)

Anyway I'm tired now, working is hard :( Bye BYES.

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