I haven't had a chance to post a revised version of the one-pager, but I will soon. I didn't get too much critical feedback from workshop - mostly positive. I do think I need to work on describing the setting and character placement a little better, so I'll see what I can do with the rewrite.
The next story was due a few days ago, but I won't fall into the workshop line-up for another few weeks. I decided to hand in an older story that I wrote and abandoned years ago. The piece has been haunting me and I'm glad to have finally given it some more attention. The protagonist has amnesia from a brain injury and I was intimidated by the technical subject matter. Amazing what a little research can do. I've also taken a psychology class in the time since I wrote the first draft and one of the sections focused on brain injuries and amnesia, together with the research I feel pretty confident about the details. We'll see if the workshop agrees. What was amazing to me was that once I went back to the story armed with facts I had to change very little of the original draft, which basically came out of thin air. Seems the character knew what he was taking about. Guess that's why they call it the "Spooky Art."
The next story I'd like to start from scratch. Not that there aren't thirty other stories I've already written and would like feedback on, but because I haven't started a new story in a while and I miss it. The creation of a new character and a new world is by far my favorite part of the writing process. I'm going back to fertile short story territory for me: three words and blank notebook pages. The three-word trick started years ago with my writing buddy Leaf - we'd pick three words and each use them in a story. Leaf writes horror and I write more commercial/literary type fiction, so you can imagine that the use of words varied greatly. I love starting out with three little building blocks - words - a story broken down into it's most basic element, and watching what develops from there.
So for this next story I'm going with: draft, tick, and arch.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
I haven't had a chance to post a revised version of the one-pager, but I will soon. I didn't get too much critical feedback from workshop - mostly positive. I do think I need to work on describing the setting and character placement a little better, so I'll see what I can do with the rewrite.
The next story was due a few days ago, but I won't fall into the workshop line-up for another few weeks. I decided to hand in an older story that I wrote and abandoned years ago. The piece has been haunting me and I'm glad to have finally given it some more attention. The protagonist has amnesia from a brain injury and I was intimidated by the technical subject matter. Amazing what a little research can do. I've also taken a psychology class in the time since I wrote the first draft and one of the sections focused on brain injuries and amnesia, together with the research I feel pretty confident about the details. We'll see if the workshop agrees. What was amazing to me was that once I went back to the story armed with facts I had to change very little of the original draft, which basically came out of thin air. Seems the character knew what he was taking about. Guess that's why they call it the "Spooky Art."
The next story I'd like to start from scratch. Not that there aren't thirty other stories I've already written and would like feedback on, but because I haven't started a new story in a while and I miss it. The creation of a new character and a new world is by far my favorite part of the writing process. I'm going back to fertile short story territory for me: three words and blank notebook pages. The three-word trick started years ago with my writing buddy Leaf - we'd pick three words and each use them in a story. Leaf writes horror and I write more commercial/literary type fiction, so you can imagine that the use of words varied greatly. I love starting out with three little building blocks - words - a story broken down into it's most basic element, and watching what develops from there.
So for this next story I'm going with: draft, tick, and arch.
The next story was due a few days ago, but I won't fall into the workshop line-up for another few weeks. I decided to hand in an older story that I wrote and abandoned years ago. The piece has been haunting me and I'm glad to have finally given it some more attention. The protagonist has amnesia from a brain injury and I was intimidated by the technical subject matter. Amazing what a little research can do. I've also taken a psychology class in the time since I wrote the first draft and one of the sections focused on brain injuries and amnesia, together with the research I feel pretty confident about the details. We'll see if the workshop agrees. What was amazing to me was that once I went back to the story armed with facts I had to change very little of the original draft, which basically came out of thin air. Seems the character knew what he was taking about. Guess that's why they call it the "Spooky Art."
The next story I'd like to start from scratch. Not that there aren't thirty other stories I've already written and would like feedback on, but because I haven't started a new story in a while and I miss it. The creation of a new character and a new world is by far my favorite part of the writing process. I'm going back to fertile short story territory for me: three words and blank notebook pages. The three-word trick started years ago with my writing buddy Leaf - we'd pick three words and each use them in a story. Leaf writes horror and I write more commercial/literary type fiction, so you can imagine that the use of words varied greatly. I love starting out with three little building blocks - words - a story broken down into it's most basic element, and watching what develops from there.
So for this next story I'm going with: draft, tick, and arch.
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