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Feb. 24th, 2007 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seabird78I feel like I should make amends for being so boring on here lately, especially now that the worst of my move is over, aside from needing to make a handful of return trips to the house to retrieve items that weren't high priority. Really, the only thing that's left that I absolutely could not do without is my CD collection, which I've put off packing up since most of my choice selections are on my iPod.
It's still hard to believe that we're here, and I even though I'm comfortable, I keep waiting for someone to knock on the door, confessing that it's all a joke and the bank changed their mind and they don't want to finance me anymore. I guess that's a habit with me, perpetually looking at the things I have, waiting for the other shoe to drop, utterly convinced that it could all be gone with a simple snap of the fingers. I think I learned early on that nothing is constant, and that's made me ever so vigilant, wanting to anticipate every possible crisis. I'm pretty sure that's been my problem with writing lately...I don't have a handle on all the twists and turns of the plot yet, and I'm having difficulty giving myself over to the narrative, and just letting it surprise me. But I did figure out one aspect of the story that's been giving me trouble...it just popped into my head totally randomly when I was driving to my bridesmaid dress fitting, and I was thrilled because it was like my brain's been working on it subconsciously this whole time, and finally had some new options to present. The wrestling part of the novel is slowly coming together, my big problem is going to be figuring out how to lead up to that, and working in bits of backstory without bogging down the movement.
What's this? Jenny's actually talking about writing fiction again? Yeah, it surprises me too, especially since I haven't had the time or inclination to do a lot of wrestling shows lately. For a while I as worried that my interest in the topic had dwindled to the point that I wouldn't be able to write about it anymore, but I think I care about it enough that I can spin a halfway decent yarn about it. I'm probably headed to the AWA Slam Ray Cortese memorial show this afternoon, and we'll see if watching that sparks some more inspiration. If not, I can always make my main character an aspiring mixed martial artist! :)
It's still hard to believe that we're here, and I even though I'm comfortable, I keep waiting for someone to knock on the door, confessing that it's all a joke and the bank changed their mind and they don't want to finance me anymore. I guess that's a habit with me, perpetually looking at the things I have, waiting for the other shoe to drop, utterly convinced that it could all be gone with a simple snap of the fingers. I think I learned early on that nothing is constant, and that's made me ever so vigilant, wanting to anticipate every possible crisis. I'm pretty sure that's been my problem with writing lately...I don't have a handle on all the twists and turns of the plot yet, and I'm having difficulty giving myself over to the narrative, and just letting it surprise me. But I did figure out one aspect of the story that's been giving me trouble...it just popped into my head totally randomly when I was driving to my bridesmaid dress fitting, and I was thrilled because it was like my brain's been working on it subconsciously this whole time, and finally had some new options to present. The wrestling part of the novel is slowly coming together, my big problem is going to be figuring out how to lead up to that, and working in bits of backstory without bogging down the movement.
What's this? Jenny's actually talking about writing fiction again? Yeah, it surprises me too, especially since I haven't had the time or inclination to do a lot of wrestling shows lately. For a while I as worried that my interest in the topic had dwindled to the point that I wouldn't be able to write about it anymore, but I think I care about it enough that I can spin a halfway decent yarn about it. I'm probably headed to the AWA Slam Ray Cortese memorial show this afternoon, and we'll see if watching that sparks some more inspiration. If not, I can always make my main character an aspiring mixed martial artist! :)
