Mid-Day update.
Apr. 14th, 2011 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinSo I'm only about to start my second hour of writing but already I'm feeling tremendously productive. When I remind myself that I'm aiming for 3,000+ word chapters, not 5,000+ word chapters, it seems so much more likely that I'll finish Monday's chapter today and then be going into next week with the same advantage I started this week, plus the added understanding that I don't need to make all three chapters in a week be 5,000 words.
I'm also finding that I really like having multiple chapters "open" at a time. Writing the follow up to chapter 5 when chapter 5 has yet to be posted is helping me realize what chapter 5 needs that it doesn't yet have.
Also, I'm profoundly gratified at the way other commenters are responding to the literary musings of my "favorite" one, the one I mentioned this morning. (Who came back again and left a comment so predictable that I was basically able to rebut it four hours in advance.)
I was recently given a link to an article about "participant inequality" on internet discussions, and while this was brought up in reference to a completely different situation it really sums up why it bothers me the way certain posters on Tales of MU dominate the conversation with what I suppose could be termed "fringe readings". It also gives me cause to evaluate my own typical behavior in internet forums, but that's an issue for me to work on another time.
...ugh, and now the dude is starting "friendly debates" with other readers. He's a philosophy student. Oh, joy. I've just warned him. We'll see if it takes. I started writing this post a few minutes before two and now it's pushing 2:20. This is why I'm constantly on the verge of banning this guy... not any one thing he does, but the fact that his behavior eats up so much of my brain-time.
I've got a blog post in me inspired by someone else's post about engaging with reviewers/critics (don't remember whose) and the fact that hosting a comment section on my story seems to mean my choice is either to ignore the comment section or to engage with my critics, and basically I'm starting to feel like maybe the purpose of the comment section needs to be more strongly defined. The proud tradition of artistic criticism has never before included the notion that the critic is entitled the use of the artist's stage and audience.
I'd love to see more discussion of the events of the story, more speculation, that sort of thing... I suppose trying to encourage those things would go much further than trying to discourage the sorts of comments I'd like to see less of. I've got some ideas for how to do that.
You know, I am completely out of my writerbrain now so I think I'm going to work on site improvements for a couple of hours. I'll do another hour of writing before the close of the business day, and then tomorrow I'll just be finishing up chapter 6 (after posting chapter 5, naturally) and the OT.
Edit: My muse, she is mercurial today... I started opening up site work stuff and now I'm starting to feel writerly again. I think I'll just try out this one plugin and then get back to it. Oh, and I have to post my flash for the day.
I'm also finding that I really like having multiple chapters "open" at a time. Writing the follow up to chapter 5 when chapter 5 has yet to be posted is helping me realize what chapter 5 needs that it doesn't yet have.
Also, I'm profoundly gratified at the way other commenters are responding to the literary musings of my "favorite" one, the one I mentioned this morning. (Who came back again and left a comment so predictable that I was basically able to rebut it four hours in advance.)
I was recently given a link to an article about "participant inequality" on internet discussions, and while this was brought up in reference to a completely different situation it really sums up why it bothers me the way certain posters on Tales of MU dominate the conversation with what I suppose could be termed "fringe readings". It also gives me cause to evaluate my own typical behavior in internet forums, but that's an issue for me to work on another time.
...ugh, and now the dude is starting "friendly debates" with other readers. He's a philosophy student. Oh, joy. I've just warned him. We'll see if it takes. I started writing this post a few minutes before two and now it's pushing 2:20. This is why I'm constantly on the verge of banning this guy... not any one thing he does, but the fact that his behavior eats up so much of my brain-time.
I've got a blog post in me inspired by someone else's post about engaging with reviewers/critics (don't remember whose) and the fact that hosting a comment section on my story seems to mean my choice is either to ignore the comment section or to engage with my critics, and basically I'm starting to feel like maybe the purpose of the comment section needs to be more strongly defined. The proud tradition of artistic criticism has never before included the notion that the critic is entitled the use of the artist's stage and audience.
I'd love to see more discussion of the events of the story, more speculation, that sort of thing... I suppose trying to encourage those things would go much further than trying to discourage the sorts of comments I'd like to see less of. I've got some ideas for how to do that.
You know, I am completely out of my writerbrain now so I think I'm going to work on site improvements for a couple of hours. I'll do another hour of writing before the close of the business day, and then tomorrow I'll just be finishing up chapter 6 (after posting chapter 5, naturally) and the OT.
Edit: My muse, she is mercurial today... I started opening up site work stuff and now I'm starting to feel writerly again. I think I'll just try out this one plugin and then get back to it. Oh, and I have to post my flash for the day.