My husband said i should log out of GLP and finally write my book, so I made this thread. 48k words - almost half!

thanks, i agree.

you are referring to me or AC?

ROLF, you obviously are

What is funny Aussie AC is GG mentioned in another thread she has been a lurker on GLP for YEARS (that is what she said) ...

I'm really getting sick of this *playground*

I mean I know what value it has for me but soooo obvious what is going on here...

Keep your eyes open AC...

rolf? and i obviously am what?

what is wrong with me having been here for years?
and i remind you to keep it courteous or you will be banned along with the ac's.

Last Edited by green_girl on 12/13/2013 08:29 AM

See what I mean...

so are you the "good cop"

I love arguing with you GG, you hone my skills as a negotiator...

But I haven't got time to *play* with you today :/

Bye GG, have a great day...

Don't forget to play with the little ones...

Hahaha...you really do know how this works...

Naw, I'm outta here, I just needed a laugh & I knew GLP wouldn't fail me :)

Have a good one my Aussie friend :)

ah, i see. just popped in to insult me, and then dash off before you have to back it up with anything sound? got it. dont bother returning if that is your attitude.

wow - all the haters seem to come out today.
I guess i must have made this today's list in the shill workload. it is pretty obvious when several of them all decide to attack at once. It is either one hater with a lot of accounts/ips, or a lot of haters with a single agenda.

So my dilemma today is: i am not sure i am in the mood for great writing. Do I take the day off and hopefully come back tomorrow with good work, or do i plod through, not caring if it is mediocre and just fix it in second draft? hmmmmm.

sadly, no screen shot update today.Only wrote a few hundred words. Just wasn't my day to write i guess, and every one needs a day off now and then. Not even a week has passed and i have made great progress. Not bragging. Just trying to convince myself that missing a day is not a sign of trouble, haha. I will be back at it tomorrow evening, and i will just have to type up two days' worth!!

Don't sweat it, some days don't work and some days do....

Here's me horsing around. Just seeing what I could come up with with a "It was a dark and stormy night" kind of beginning!! Lol.


-------------------- CHAPTER 1 --------------------



It was a dark and stormy night. Susan crossed the forty yards from the depot to her car, as she hurried to get inside the warmth of her car. She slammed the door shut, removed her gloves, and rubbed her hands , feeling the heat slowly spread across her palms. She was afraid of storms, and preferred to avoid travelling outside during one. The power was out in the north of the city, and she could see the light above the town beyond that , giving it an ethereal sort of frame. She switched on her music deck, and it continued to play the same song she was listening to when she had arrived here at the depot. As the tunes began to fill the silence of the car, she began to relax a little more.
She started the engine up, and pointed her car towards exit 91 , and settled down to the drive back home. She always liked the hypnotic effect of the calm drive, toward the end of the day , when all that lay before here was dinner, some wine, and a peaceful nights sleep. But there was something today, at the back of her mind, that told her things were not going to be the same. She wondered for a moment about it, then discarded the thought , putting it down to tiredness.






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Last Edited by abhie on 12/13/2013 11:58 PM

Husband? yours? wow you have really good imagination. Will be waiting for your book for sure. I believe everyone else will be waiting for it to be published too.. a book from someone who was a graphic designer who become into amateur astrophsycist and finnally a writer? How amazing its like a game where you can change your profession after certain levels of failure.

Last Edited by Star Fhisp on 12/13/2013 11:20 PM

Pretty awesome I thought!

Thanks!! :)

First of all, best of luck. It's a real adventure. I know why you can't get 'over the hump'.

First I'd like for you to consider a change in paradigm regarding your approach to your writing...

If writing is work, you're not a writer.

If you love your world, your characters, and your story, you'll want to visit them.

Often people get mired in the false idea that if you write it perfectly the first time, you won't ever have to work on it again. Nothing is farther from the truth.

In the first draft rip into that story. Don't stop to correct typos. Forget grammar. Capture the emotion of the moment, even if you're the only one who will understand what you mean.

Second drafts, thirds... that's when the literary 'work' comes in.

I'd guess that you are writing 'tight' because you know that your husband is going to want to read the moment you get a chapter out. It's that 'pressure to be perfect' that's taking the fun out of the story-telling for you. Remove that pressure and you'll write like a bandit. Remind yourself that you'll be able to fix it in the edits... because you will have to edit. Plan on it. Heck, lean on the fact and let yourself tell the story!

i thought that was pretty damngood. It is not easy to make "dark and stormy night" sound interesting, but i wanted to keep reading more. do you have more? lol. that was fun!! Thanks for sharing too.

I agree with much of what you said! I do force myself to ignore grammar mistakes. I think I have even left in a few sentence fragments too, lo. My husband knows i am not changing any of it until second draft. He just ignores the mistakes when he is reading now and focuses only on the story itself.
I did not mean to make it sound like it is too much work for me. I enjoy it and am compelled to do it.
I think the rest of life just gets in the way sometimes. my kids are only small, so they are big interrupters, lol. And i do still work at other jobs too. yesterday, things just did not work out in my favour!

Why would you bother coming into my thread Star just to harass me? Isnt there an ison thread you would feel more at home in? Or do you just miss me now that I am not in those threads as much? What can I say? I am too busy for tard-arguing right now. Ison will have to not hit us without me arguing about it. You are welcome to visit my thread, but i warn you if you do not keep your comments polite and on topic I will ban you.

lOl

I like that term.

I might have to steal it sometimes, if you don't mind.

feel free, and thanks for visiting (and bumping ) my thread!

A red karma I just received:
"If You Spent Just 10% Of Your Time Writing Your Novel Instead Of Being An Ass Licking Shill Witch, You'll Have Written a Trilogy By Now"

touche! they do have a (crudely expressed) point though. Time to get back at it, after flaking off last night. Minimum of one thousands words today - though two would be better! But since i am several thousand words ahead of my schedule, I wont stress too much about it. I can always tell when I am forcing the words just to hit a predetermined word count. The writing goes from being pleasing to read, to just robotic and lifeless.
well, here I go !

woot!woot!
<insert dancing gif here>
i did it, wrote two thousand words today! So totally made up for last night's lack of dedication.
They arent the best words in the book, and will likely need a lot of help in the revision, but they are there and that is all i care about!!
[link to i.imgur.com]

anyone else have progress to share?

That was fast!! Wow!

yeah, but in fairness, i had it all planned out yesterday, just never sat to write it. Fogrot Doran character was supposed to be in there - eep. will have to work him in in the next chapter. I think he is going to be a more important character than i had planned. not sure yet.