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site update, challenge stress
Mar. 16th, 2008 10:28 pmI put my two most recent stories up on my website - here are the links:
New Beginnings Pie: Jenna gets a pen pal and invents four pies. (Waitress, Jenna/Jim Pomatter - Contains spoilers for the movie, including the ending!!)
Jury Duty: Tracy has jury duty, Jenna discovers a new source of fame, Jack is on the verge of losing his job, and Liz tries to hold it all together. (30 Rock, Gen)
In other news: I'm writing a story for a challenge due next month, and I'm experiencing a good deal of anxiety about it at this point, mostly because the writing hasn't really, well, started. And I am ALWAYS such a dorky challenge participant! Starting the story within a week of getting the prompt! Trucking right through, slowly but surely, until I get to the end!
Though then again, I've only been in two challenges prior to this one, and that's a pretty small sample set.
Anyway, at this point, I have notes! Ideas on paper! Little possible outlines of scenes and stuff! But I was having a hard time envisioning the whole thing, and so I held off on the actual writing, and just kept making little notes to myself in my dorky writer's notebook. And then the other day I said to myself, "Self, why don't you look at the prompt again, see if you're remembering it right, and maybe reading it over will jump-start your idea!"
And I did, and made the mistake of reading the other prompts, too. And now I have an idea for another prompt! Which is just as (if not more) complicated than the first idea I had! What to do, what to dooooooooooooooo. Which should I write? WHICH ONE? I know whichever I choose, I will hate myself for not choosing the other one, because I inevitably end up hating the story I'm writing once I get into it.
And if you guessed that this entry was one long way of me avoiding making a decision about which story to start writing, you are right! I am giving myself a deadline of tomorrow night to decide and start on at least one of them. Or come to more of a decision. Or something. Maybe I could have Word documents going side-by-side? Stupid indecisiveness!
New Beginnings Pie: Jenna gets a pen pal and invents four pies. (Waitress, Jenna/Jim Pomatter - Contains spoilers for the movie, including the ending!!)
Jury Duty: Tracy has jury duty, Jenna discovers a new source of fame, Jack is on the verge of losing his job, and Liz tries to hold it all together. (30 Rock, Gen)
In other news: I'm writing a story for a challenge due next month, and I'm experiencing a good deal of anxiety about it at this point, mostly because the writing hasn't really, well, started. And I am ALWAYS such a dorky challenge participant! Starting the story within a week of getting the prompt! Trucking right through, slowly but surely, until I get to the end!
Though then again, I've only been in two challenges prior to this one, and that's a pretty small sample set.
Anyway, at this point, I have notes! Ideas on paper! Little possible outlines of scenes and stuff! But I was having a hard time envisioning the whole thing, and so I held off on the actual writing, and just kept making little notes to myself in my dorky writer's notebook. And then the other day I said to myself, "Self, why don't you look at the prompt again, see if you're remembering it right, and maybe reading it over will jump-start your idea!"
And I did, and made the mistake of reading the other prompts, too. And now I have an idea for another prompt! Which is just as (if not more) complicated than the first idea I had! What to do, what to dooooooooooooooo. Which should I write? WHICH ONE? I know whichever I choose, I will hate myself for not choosing the other one, because I inevitably end up hating the story I'm writing once I get into it.
And if you guessed that this entry was one long way of me avoiding making a decision about which story to start writing, you are right! I am giving myself a deadline of tomorrow night to decide and start on at least one of them. Or come to more of a decision. Or something. Maybe I could have Word documents going side-by-side? Stupid indecisiveness!
