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Post by thelunarfox on Aug 11, 2010 12:54:18 GMT -5
Alex is seriously cracking me up. Like damn man, where is some of this stuff coming from? I sat typing for a good hour and a half this morning. Normally I'm distracted, but I'm on a roll. Got a few things from the most recent journal to type up and organize. Rewarded myself with two pieces of chocolate and a cup of milk. I'm half thinking I should always keep a box of chocolates around for motivation, but that could get ugly. I do still have a gift certificate to See's though which I definitely should use. Another random thought-- I wish I could work Angel into more updates. He's so cute and awesome. Ah well, I'll need to keep working on his and Mitchell's story. I'll admit that's tough. It's intimidating because I'm writing about something I have absolutely no personal experience with. Second hand from observing others, but that's not really the same. I believe that at our cores, most everything we experience can be broken down into elements that are common and true for all of us. That's usually where I try to write from. The filter changes by person, but the truth is that we all can understand each other if we manage to strip away everything else we inject into our personal experiences. This is where I have to write Mitchell's story from.
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Post by laura on Aug 11, 2010 15:37:43 GMT -5
Oh yes! I absolutely agree! Otherwise, we'd only be able to write exactly what we know and have experienced ourselves. But of course we can write more than that.
I can't wait to read Mitchell's story!
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Post by thelunarfox on Aug 27, 2010 10:52:12 GMT -5
Wow, this last bit was hard to put together, so I hope it all makes sense. You know how sometimes you go to write a character, and things sort of snap into place? This chapter was like that. Brandon is a thinker, of course, and it came out that way.
Maybe just being in a crowd of friends, a group of minds he knows, sort of provides some cover for him. He's rarely alone with this thoughts without someone else's thought invading. So this chapter came out in a jumble and I had to work everything out and reorganize so that it'd make sense to my brain. I will admit this was the most difficult to write so far.
At least until the part Brandon and Jimmy spar. Then he got all focused. That part was amazingly easy to write.
Should I be concerned when I start reading the minds of characters that exist solely in my head? *thinks about it* Nah! I'll worry if I start meeting people who remind me of them. Those types of people should probably be avoided completely.
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Post by thelunarfox on Aug 30, 2010 23:08:17 GMT -5
I often compare the stray thoughts he hears to voices in a room. With minds that are familiar to him, I would imagine that no thoughts stand out over the others, they're also probably less jarring compared to thoughts from people who he isn't familiar with. So it does act as something of white noise. He probably also does feel safe, so he can relax knowing that none of his friends would be a danger to him.
I was just very surprised at how introspective he is. I think if he moves into any role where more people are dependent on him, he's going to be like Henri and need his own hide away space where he can be alone with his thoughts.
And thanks! I love Brandon very much. There's a lot more to him, and a lot of it is very understated. Sort of surprised me.
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Post by thelunarfox on Aug 30, 2010 23:24:50 GMT -5
Three brothers? Oh my goodness, lol! My mind is already turning that over. How old are you in relation to them? Were they that way with you?
Thank you though for that confirmation. I'm just going off what I've witnessed, mostly in high school. Oh, and what my boyfriend, Jay, tells me about his growing up with three brothers. I've always felt very bad for his mother, lol.
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Post by thelunarfox on Sept 9, 2010 10:30:05 GMT -5
*gets serious* I've been easily distracted. I mostly blame Harvest Moon Grand Bazaar and the Atari 5200. For the past week I've been completely into video games. But I'm trying to re-focus. When something like that hits, a phase or obsession, I usually let it go and run with it for a while. It was just building. One of the things I started doing even is looking into old systems and watching how the industry evolved over time from the first home game system to the more popular Atari 2600. That was an interesting time full of clones and stolen ideas and chaos. I was telling Jay the other day that I seem to do this sometimes, and I just soak up information. I won't retain the details (maybe odd things here or there), but it seems my subconscious absorbs most of the information. It's not the specifics that's important, it's the hows and whys that are important. All of it turns over in my subconscious and then comes out in my story. I expect what I've learned to help me when it comes to fleshing out the history of the labs and technology in Ruin. So it's sort of indirect research. Yeah, I'll go with that. There's other issues that have made it a bit difficult to type up in the mornings. For a while I was on a schedule. From 9am to almost 11am I'd be typing up my journals. I need to get back into that, so that's going to start today. But it's still 8:30, so first a walk and then a shower and then business!
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Post by laura on Sept 9, 2010 11:31:56 GMT -5
Oh, I hear you on the getting serious! September is just that perfect time of year for everyone, I think. I was just thinking this morning, it being a perfect 72 degrees and sunny, how much better my brain seems to be working. Like all the heat of summer just fries the circuits or something, lol! Yes, agreed, totally indirect research, lol! I do that all the time too! There's really nothing you can learn that's wasted though. It'll be useful to you, sometime, for something. Just wait and see!
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Post by thelunarfox on Sept 9, 2010 22:06:40 GMT -5
Laura, welcome to my world pretty much year round. A nice breeze and sunny most days, though sometimes we have a lot of fog. Thanks for understanding. It's hard to get back to work though, lol. But this is the test behind my new years resolution. Anything you want is worth reaching for. I enjoy writing, and it's important to me, but I've always ended up abandoning it for other pursuits. So here's the test, my refocusing and coming back to work on the update for tomorrow. On the 16th it's going to be the one year anniversary for Ruin. Crazy! I will probably want to do something to mark the occasion. Can't believe it's been that long.
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Post by Stacy on Sept 9, 2010 22:19:55 GMT -5
I definitely get the obsessions and it coming into your story. Yay one year anniversary! You should do something to celebrate it. Saturday will be the one year anniversary of VSS, speaking of anniversaries. *hugs* You rock and I'm glad you're here.
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Post by thelunarfox on Sept 12, 2010 1:38:16 GMT -5
I don't know what I'm going to do. I've thought about it too, lol. Thanks Stacy. I'm forever grateful that you've made this place. It's nice to come here and relax.
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Post by raquelaroden on Sept 12, 2010 9:12:22 GMT -5
How weird...I've been really distracted too. I've been playing Oblivion, and I've been reading lots of terrible paranormal romance novels. It's like I can't get it together for my stories this week. I'm still thinking about them all the time, but it's hard to actually do anything to get it down somewhere. Sometimes, though, a little break is just what you need. So good luck--your last chapter was amazing, so it's not like I can tell that you're distracted in your writing and posing, etc..
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Post by thelunarfox on Sept 12, 2010 11:23:27 GMT -5
Thanks, Rachel. That's great to hear, honestly, lol. I have to admit that I'm a bit worried. But I'd like to push through the distraction, and at the same time I'm allowing for my break. I have the next few updates already done but for the pictures.
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Post by Stacy on Sept 22, 2010 16:27:33 GMT -5
YAYAYAYAYAY!!!! Did you see on Twitter where one of the web fiction people recommended Ruin for their webfic Wednesday rec? I retweeted it for you. YAY!
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Post by raquelaroden on Sept 22, 2010 19:52:25 GMT -5
Yay for LunarFox!! That's wonderful!
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Post by thelunarfox on Sept 22, 2010 20:23:28 GMT -5
Wow, I saw that, and I'm amazed and honored that anyone would recommend my story. That totally made my night. Thanks for showing me Stacy. I was having a chocolate needing day too. Thanks, Rachel.
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Post by Stacy on Sept 22, 2010 21:37:54 GMT -5
Wow, I saw that, and I'm amazed and honored that anyone would recommend my story. That totally made my night. Thanks for showing me Stacy. I was having a chocolate needing day too. Thanks, Rachel. *happy dance* OMG - I saw it, and I was like - is that what I think it is? And I clicked on the link, and it was! So awesome. Yay I'm happy when you're happy! Also, of course people would recommend your story. It rocks.
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Post by thelunarfox on Sept 29, 2010 10:44:39 GMT -5
So two weeks off so far has been pretty awesome. I haven't even looked at my notebooks or tried to write. Sometimes a vacation is needed to gather more inspiration and let things percolate. And I can feel them percolating! I'm almost ready to get back to work.
To be honest, I was worried for a second that I was losing "it"-- you know that feeling where all you can think about is the story and getting it down, and in a way I probably was. I mean, it happens. These things usually go through cycles anyway.
I pretty much just pushed the story from my mind and refused to worry about it. But it's about time to come back again. I can feel it, though I'm giving it a bit more time to romp and play in its own file cabinet off to the side of my brain.
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Post by raquelaroden on Sept 29, 2010 11:25:00 GMT -5
I'm so glad you are enjoying your break....even as I'm chewing on my nails, wishing you'd have a new chapter. But I understand that you need to be excited about writing in order to do it...and I can't wait to see the results!
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Post by laura on Sept 30, 2010 18:09:07 GMT -5
Oh good, glad you had a good break! I totally know what you mean about losing it. I worry about that sometimes too, when something's just not coming, no matter how hard I stare at it. But it always comes back. Just not when we want it to come back - has to be on its own time
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Post by thelunarfox on Oct 8, 2010 1:52:13 GMT -5
Thanks guys. I'm learning to work with my subconscious. It's a lot like working with a difficult child sometimes. I know its pitfalls and how to bribe it sometimes, and other times it's just hopeless.
It was wonderful to be able to see the characters again though. It's only been two weeks, but still it's like it's been forever. Plus I can open LSB too now.
At Target, I picked up a crazy binder that was like $1 that one day I found a bunch of note books that were a quarter a piece. Well then a couple weeks after that, I found a bunch of notebooks that were only $0.12! I couldn't believe it. So I've got another stack of books to fill now. That should keep me occupied for the year I hope. ;D
My next goal is to print out all the story bits I've got to put them in the binder and keep them for inspiration. Tomorrow. That's easy. I also need to type up all those other journals! I've been doing a fair amount of typing on my DS. That's actually kinda funny as I have to pluck at the touch screen with my first two fingers. It's not very efficient, but it's a way to type things up at work and it actually kinda goes pretty fast (plus it makes slow work days fly past).
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