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I've been working on writing The Novel and I've actually been going places, but a major character is about to show up and she doesn't have a name yet. I've got a few possibilities that are floating around, but I thought I'd ask the opinion of others.

To preface this: the character is an old woman living on the outskirts of a small village in prerevolutionary France. She's actually a witch, and though the people of the village expect that something strange is happening with her, they don't know all the details; they just think she's the crazy old lady who has a good knowledge of herbs, medicine, and healing. She's in her seventies, with long, bright white hair and piercing eyes (I actually imagine that she looks very much like my last semester's English professor, come to think of it).

[Poll #1207264]
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I don't care if you have five minutes or five hours -- answer these questions for me and I will love you forever.

By which I mean to say: I'm trying to figure out the dynamics of my story and I need a little help, possibly a few suggestions, so it would be awesome if I could get even a few seconds of your advice.

1. Why might a witch curse you to be a werewolf at the age of 15? Because of something you actively did wrong, or just because she didn't like you? How bad of a thing would you have to do?

2. If your son was cursed to be a werewolf, and you were the only other living person who knew about it, what would you do? How would you act around him?

3. What might make a 15-year-old boy hate his father?
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My short story is as follows.

Who - A man going through his midlife crisis / A writer
Wants - To make a difference/be remembered
What - A small dog / Mismatched ballet shoes / "Casablanca"
When - A rainy night in mid-autumn
Where - Arizona / London

This is not actually my short story. This is the one that I'll write sometime, really I will, because you all thought it would be a good idea if I did.

My actual short story is about the teenage daughter of the American ambassador to Israel and how she wants to help the Palestinian refugees and her parents are indifferent to the cause. Personally, I think it beats the majority of the literary fiction I've heard other people writing because A) it's less depressing, and B) there's less meaningless sex.

I have to proceed with writing this story, because it's due a week from Wednesday and I like having time to mull these things over before I have to submit them.
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 So guys, this is it -- I have to have a written short story in ten days, and I have no ideas.  Please be prepared to decide upon them for me!  Even if you only have a minute, please fill this out.  I'm honestly counting on this to get my story ideas started![Poll #1061651]
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There was a time when I used this journal for poetry. I wish I was still living in that sort of time, but I'm not, and I just have to deal with it.

I went to the Koger study session. Very few people showed up, but that's never bugged me -- I love having time with teachers when they don't have to pay attention to a billion kids at once, and if all the Humanities kids showed up, it'd be a zoo. (Steph, I have the notes for you -- I can e-mail them if you want. Anyone else cool enough to be reading this gets them for free, but I'm considering selling them to others.)

I should be doing work right now, but (I'm sensing a recurrant theme here) I don't want to do it.

I wrote an essay about objects in the play Streetcar Named Desire and I forgot to mention the streetcar named Desire. *hits self on head* But I did write a lot, and if Dr. Chris is grading them I have a better chance than if Krucli was (for once in my life). Stylistically, the essay is pretty crappy and doesn't follow any sort of good form, and Krucli expects better of me and would ding me for it. Chris, on the other hand, will be so happy to realize I listened to what he said (or so he thinks) and he will only care about whether or not I used compound-complex sentences, so I'm less worried. It feels weird to have hand-written that essay, because all the past essays I've typed and saved to my computer, which means that I've been able to look back at them immediately after they were written. I can't do that with this one, and it's somewhat annoying.

I'm still working on a nebulous cloud of ideas that may or may not coalesce (one of my favorite words) into a good and meaningful story for Julie. I'm working on an idea set in ancient Greece, and I really wanted to use Hypatia as a main character, but I keep running into historical issues. If I'm going to set it in a real historical time period, I get the feeling that I should at least do it right.

So I was experimenting with the poll generator, and I produced this. Please help?

[Poll #968500]

Really, I don't know how that's going to help me. Really the only thing is I'm unsure if I want to pull some Greek gods into the story or not. Because I could do it without them, and it might make more sense, but I just don't know enough Greek history to know for sure.

Aargh! As usual, so many things demand so much from me and I'm never sure if I'll have the time or strength to get them all done. But in the end, all we can do is persevere and hope that our perseverance is enough.

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