I loved writing as a group. I was a bit disappointed that all I could squeeze out were 5 and 1/2 pages double spaced. Before class I was a bit worried that the silence would drive me crazy. I find it impossible to work in utter silence. I usually play music or have a film running on my computer while I write and/or do homework. When the first ten minutes started I was a bit tempted to pull up sidereel.com and have an episode of Castle playing while I hand wrote/thought of what to hand write...then the fear of Elmaz ran through my mind and I decided that that was a horrible idea. So, instead I had music playing to fill the silence but not overpower my thought process.
I tried to spend a decent amount of time thinking up one visual scenery for each chapter. I sketched a few places so that I will be able to describe them within my story better. I just finished watching The Sound Of Music to cheer up a friend whose grandmother just passed and I now feel like my story needs a cheerier interior...
I'm a bit worried that by the time I've started the conflict and after I've introduced all of the main characters, I'll already be at least 50 pages in. I'm worried that the story/novel that I want to finish, I want it to be long, but I feel the way I am approaching it is making it so that what I get done in thesis is going to be like a long introduction.
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Alana,
ReplyDeleteit sounds like the trajectory of your book is appropriate for book length. not to worry. Remember you can run noise on your headset as long as you're writing during the class writing day. i think almost 6 pages is good. i was happy with my 7
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I feel your concern about 5 1/2 pages...I think I got like 6 pages in. But if you were spending some time sketching, you have to calculate that into your productivity, too! I think that's such a neat idea to sketch out characters so you know exactly how to describe. Maybe I'll commission something from you sometime >=D.
ReplyDeleteAnd hey, I'd say just go for it, and if your 50 page thesis is just a long introduction, you BETTER make sure you publish your full-length story, or else you'll have 10 to 15 (how many of us are there??) Mills alumni coming after you RIGHT QUICK looking for more. Incentive! Whoo-hoo!