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Sunday, February 12th
Feb. 12th, 2012 01:03 pmTHE DAILY REPORT
Got an email this morning that reminded me in a roundabout way that I haven't said a word about Star Harbor Nights, though I'd planned to restart it before this. The short version is that I found the format I'd chosen to pursue (a five act structure) too confining... always a risk, since I don't do great with structures. But it was an informative attempt, all the same. I think the final product is going to have a stronger and tighter structure than it would otherwise have had.
No word on a launch, or where/how I'm going to publish it. I'd like to do what I've done with Tales of MU, in terms of having a sustainable schedule.
STATE OF THE ME
Pretty good.
DREAMS FROM LAST NIGHT
Long one.
Lately I've been having a lot of dreams that mash up my current life and high school. In this one, it started off at the last week of school. I was still a writer and still writing the same basic things, but I was writing them in pencil in a spiral-bound notebook (which is how I used to write things at school, of course) and I kept kind of wondering how I'd managed 5k and 8k word count days. There were some incongruities, like I had a somewhat ill-defined relationship with a teacher named "Scott" (don't know if that was his first name or last name, he didn't resemble any actual teacher of mine in any way) who was waiting for me to graduate so we could have a better-defined one.
But I also was already in the long-distance relationship with Jack, and in the dream graduation was the only thing I needed to do in order to be with him.
After the last day of school ended, my family piled into a van that was the world's smallest fully equipped RV (there was a full sized bathtub in it, for instance, and no, the van wasn't bigger on the inside, even in a subtle dream logic sort of way) to road trip to the east coast and meet up with Jack and drop me off. But we were only halfway across Iowa when we saw a big cloud of smoke and plumes of lava shooting up in the distance... there was a volcano forming on the Iowa plains.
The wind was carrying the ash away from us, but lava flows were going to be a problem. We figured that the safest place to be was on the other side of the river, which would require crossing a great big suspension bridge, which seemed risky as we feared tectonic instability. I'm quietly terrified of bridges and bridges breaking or the vehicle I'm in going off a bridge feature heavily in my nightmares, so all of this seemed like an overly elaborate set-up for that, but I woke up before we attempted to cross.
PLANS FOR TODAY
Got a TOMU chapter to go over/finish and post, and a flash story to put up.
Got an email this morning that reminded me in a roundabout way that I haven't said a word about Star Harbor Nights, though I'd planned to restart it before this. The short version is that I found the format I'd chosen to pursue (a five act structure) too confining... always a risk, since I don't do great with structures. But it was an informative attempt, all the same. I think the final product is going to have a stronger and tighter structure than it would otherwise have had.
No word on a launch, or where/how I'm going to publish it. I'd like to do what I've done with Tales of MU, in terms of having a sustainable schedule.
STATE OF THE ME
Pretty good.
DREAMS FROM LAST NIGHT
Long one.
Lately I've been having a lot of dreams that mash up my current life and high school. In this one, it started off at the last week of school. I was still a writer and still writing the same basic things, but I was writing them in pencil in a spiral-bound notebook (which is how I used to write things at school, of course) and I kept kind of wondering how I'd managed 5k and 8k word count days. There were some incongruities, like I had a somewhat ill-defined relationship with a teacher named "Scott" (don't know if that was his first name or last name, he didn't resemble any actual teacher of mine in any way) who was waiting for me to graduate so we could have a better-defined one.
But I also was already in the long-distance relationship with Jack, and in the dream graduation was the only thing I needed to do in order to be with him.
After the last day of school ended, my family piled into a van that was the world's smallest fully equipped RV (there was a full sized bathtub in it, for instance, and no, the van wasn't bigger on the inside, even in a subtle dream logic sort of way) to road trip to the east coast and meet up with Jack and drop me off. But we were only halfway across Iowa when we saw a big cloud of smoke and plumes of lava shooting up in the distance... there was a volcano forming on the Iowa plains.
The wind was carrying the ash away from us, but lava flows were going to be a problem. We figured that the safest place to be was on the other side of the river, which would require crossing a great big suspension bridge, which seemed risky as we feared tectonic instability. I'm quietly terrified of bridges and bridges breaking or the vehicle I'm in going off a bridge feature heavily in my nightmares, so all of this seemed like an overly elaborate set-up for that, but I woke up before we attempted to cross.
PLANS FOR TODAY
Got a TOMU chapter to go over/finish and post, and a flash story to put up.