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Writing, Rest and the Con
Aug. 10th, 2003 06:41 amI just finished writing another entry in my on-going fictional journal, Lysette's Soliloquium.
I started it as an exercise, a way to teach myself to write even when I didn't feel like it, and a way hopefully to improve my limited writing skills.
It is the story of a vampire, Lysette, told in retrospection. Or at least that's what it started out as. It's taken on a bit of a life of it's own. I find the story interesting in part because when I am writing it, I don't feel like I am the one in control of what's being said. And perhaps, I am not the one truly writing it. I do know I find it a peaceful time. The tone of the story is quiet, contemplative, nostalgic. I find I need the climate around me quiet and still in order to find that voice inside me that lets me write it. It has become almost a meditative place for me.
I had a restful day yesterday. I mean, I slept off and on most of the day. I let David field all the phone calls, and I took naps as I needed them. I even got some work done when I wasn't sleeping. I might even get the last of it done today, and wouldn't that be novel? To have the majority of the information for the pocket program ready to layout two weeks before I have to have it to the printer?
For the first time in a long time, I actually feel like this is all going to be ok, that I will manage to get everything done, and that I will for the first time (ever) be able to go to the Con and just enjoy myself.
Ok, I just realized I am rambling a little, and I am going to stop and go have breakfast now.
I started it as an exercise, a way to teach myself to write even when I didn't feel like it, and a way hopefully to improve my limited writing skills.
It is the story of a vampire, Lysette, told in retrospection. Or at least that's what it started out as. It's taken on a bit of a life of it's own. I find the story interesting in part because when I am writing it, I don't feel like I am the one in control of what's being said. And perhaps, I am not the one truly writing it. I do know I find it a peaceful time. The tone of the story is quiet, contemplative, nostalgic. I find I need the climate around me quiet and still in order to find that voice inside me that lets me write it. It has become almost a meditative place for me.
I had a restful day yesterday. I mean, I slept off and on most of the day. I let David field all the phone calls, and I took naps as I needed them. I even got some work done when I wasn't sleeping. I might even get the last of it done today, and wouldn't that be novel? To have the majority of the information for the pocket program ready to layout two weeks before I have to have it to the printer?
For the first time in a long time, I actually feel like this is all going to be ok, that I will manage to get everything done, and that I will for the first time (ever) be able to go to the Con and just enjoy myself.
Ok, I just realized I am rambling a little, and I am going to stop and go have breakfast now.
