Write in 2014 discussion

Why hello there, I don't think I will ever have full clarity but I will atleast be writing about trying to find it.

Hello Lauren, fancy seeing you here:)

Its shocking... I'm hoping that i will have more time to write this next semester as i am taking poetry and novel, and only two literature courses, shakespeare and comparative lit.

What level course is this m'dear? I can possibly help?

um... city college.

i don't go back to school until the 11th, i always feel like the first two weeks are experimentation, and then you actually know what you are in for.

i've had one of my professors before and we get along great, another is brilliant but retiring so i want to take from him before he leaves, another apparently hasn't taught a class in a classroom in 6 years so that should be interesting, and my poetry class so far as I know is still lacking a teacher. if it gets cancelled i will be taking grammar instead, luckily the grammar teacher is the shakespeare teacher who was my brit lit teacher this past semester and she said that class wouldn't have been the same without me, wrote on my paper that my writing was beautiful and thoughtful, and jumped up and down a little when i told her i was taking shakespeare.

so worst case scenario i will have two lit, a technique, and a writing class.

but thank you for the offer, i may take advantage of it in a month.

Any time, Lauren. If I can help, I'm more than happy to.

So I am a bad monkey who has been enjoying her vacation by doing a lot of dating before starting rehearsals for Macbeth yesterday and school on Tuesday. Just organizing my life and trying to get everything together, but last night I went to my favorite coffee house and wrote 8 more pages of "A Child's Wound", its coming slowly but surely, I am now at 27 pages, which equals 27 minutes of screen time, so I am almost 1/3 done in screen time, trouble is I am only in the second chapter of the book, and on page 22 of the book, I don't know how I have managed to make it exponentially longer then the original source material, but no onw wants to go to a four hour movie so I am just going to write everything and then do massive cuts afterward, hopefully the next couple of chapters will be chock full of description and will cut down my page count. We'll see.

I've been terrible about updating, but I have written two poems and some more on the screenplay and this morning wrote and edited a 2700 word article that I am going to try and get published so I can get an automatic A in my freelance writing class... oh joy oh rapture now all I have to do is figure out how to query the LA Times.

OK so I have been gone for um... like five months because of school and life so here's the update.

Met a boy fell in love. Going to school getting straight A's. In process of getting divorced from Gay husband. Thinking about moving to Seattle in the next year or so. If boy finds job there, and I can work anywhere. Friend from High School apparently lost his mind and committed a couple of murders, been dealing with that. um... yeah that's about it.

should be here more this summer thats the hope and the prayer at least.

Wow, that sounds like a lot of bad luck, and like the summary of a book. I hope your life gets back on track!

Lauren wrote: "OK so I have been gone for um... like five months because of school and life so here's the update.

Met a boy fell in love. Going to school getting straight A's. In process of getting divorced fr..."

I can relate tot he school piece...almost done (yay!) but man, it sure did get in my way of writing for fun! I'm even writing a research paper right now...but at 2:30 I'm breaking for my book:) Congrats on the new love...but wow sounds like you have to deal with a lot right now...I guess writing is a great exercise to deal with trying situations like those you 've mentioned to vent or use creative energy to get out any confusion, frustration, anger etc. Hope to hear more from you soon.

thanks cathy.

life is life, you either let it crush or push you.

i tend to try and use every bit of my life to some productive end, whether or not that actually happens is debatable.

divorce is a good thing for some relationships, particularly ones of convenience. it stopped making sense a year and a half ago, and now we are finally rectifying one problematic element at a time.

love is grand, but it does make writing a rape novel interesting.

currently working on a story about a woman who gets abducted in first person pov, her first person. its proved interesting and challenging.

i started out writing in 3rd, but it read too much like a screenplay. it's definitely something that will either force me to go into protective custody and make people mad, or be just really well received. i see the former as more likely.

so i think i am getting a little addicted to drabbles. 100 words comes out in like 5 minutes. then another 5 minutes of editing. so in 10 minutes you have a second draft of a story. i wish my novel worked that way.

but on that note i think that i might want to try and write 100 drabbles this summer and then try and put them all together in a little drabble book.

good idea or terrible... i haven't decided yet.

What are drabbles?

100 word stories. no more no less. complete beginning middle and end.

Cool :) Good luck with that! Post some here, let us read *please?*

there are a bunch and a bunch of lets say discussions about them in the group on fiction writing.

I'm going to attempt to write a Drabble. ha ha, coming up with the idea is the worst!

have fun, good luck.