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Bloodshadow is back!
May. 7th, 2003 11:15 pmNOTICE: One of the two mirrors of my website is DOWN. Right now the only working URL for my site is: http://www.miniclan.org/tigris/. Since I was paying actual money for the other one, I'm really upset, but there's not much I can do about it right now.
I think I've found my muse again on this story. The trick is having someone to help you through the spots that are giving you trouble. Someone to give you feedback! Feedback is an extremely rare thing, and when you do get it, it's usually bad. I like working with Leva because she gives me good feedback. Past writing partners have either:
A. I write something and they never look at it. Don't even seem to care.
B. All they want to do is role-play, and descriptive prose isn't in their vocabulary.
C. Never there.
T'Layna has been good to write with, but she doesn't give me much feedback when I write bits (Anachronisms Saga). Anac is the other project I want to be working on right now, but T'Layna was supposed to send me a file and hasn't yet. Kitty Paige gives me feedback (Dreamverse Stories), but our schedules don't allow for us to do writing together very often. I used to write a lot with her mate CMage, but I never see him on any more.
I was thinking today that though I'm writing quantity again, I'm not sure the quality is what it used to be. I look back at my best peice (in my opinion) "Angels In The Night" and wonder why I can't seem to do that writing anymore. Of course, when I think about it, the answer is simple.
1. Lack of TIME
2. Lack of good inspiration
But getting my muse back on the story Leva Cygnet and I are working on is a VERY good thing. It actually has a title now! "Bloodshadow". This is the first really firm name we've given it, followed my old philosophy that you never name a novel until you're almost done with it. Even tossed in a reference to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
centauress. For those from Garg fandom, there are references in it to other friends of ours from that fandom.
The bills are piling up pretty deep at the moment. Tanan has gone pretty far out on a limb to make the living arrangement here work for us, so all our hopes are pretty firmly set on getting the money from the sale of the house in Petaluma. We've been avoiding going to dinner with friends, buying anything more than we need at the store, because we're living on what little cash we have.
I think I've found my muse again on this story. The trick is having someone to help you through the spots that are giving you trouble. Someone to give you feedback! Feedback is an extremely rare thing, and when you do get it, it's usually bad. I like working with Leva because she gives me good feedback. Past writing partners have either:
A. I write something and they never look at it. Don't even seem to care.
B. All they want to do is role-play, and descriptive prose isn't in their vocabulary.
C. Never there.
T'Layna has been good to write with, but she doesn't give me much feedback when I write bits (Anachronisms Saga). Anac is the other project I want to be working on right now, but T'Layna was supposed to send me a file and hasn't yet. Kitty Paige gives me feedback (Dreamverse Stories), but our schedules don't allow for us to do writing together very often. I used to write a lot with her mate CMage, but I never see him on any more.
I was thinking today that though I'm writing quantity again, I'm not sure the quality is what it used to be. I look back at my best peice (in my opinion) "Angels In The Night" and wonder why I can't seem to do that writing anymore. Of course, when I think about it, the answer is simple.
1. Lack of TIME
2. Lack of good inspiration
But getting my muse back on the story Leva Cygnet and I are working on is a VERY good thing. It actually has a title now! "Bloodshadow". This is the first really firm name we've given it, followed my old philosophy that you never name a novel until you're almost done with it. Even tossed in a reference to
centauress. For those from Garg fandom, there are references in it to other friends of ours from that fandom.The bills are piling up pretty deep at the moment. Tanan has gone pretty far out on a limb to make the living arrangement here work for us, so all our hopes are pretty firmly set on getting the money from the sale of the house in Petaluma. We've been avoiding going to dinner with friends, buying anything more than we need at the store, because we're living on what little cash we have.
