Oh dear, school starts in a little over a week. I move in sunday. I cant believe this summer is finally coming to a close... damn, it feels like the longest summer I have ever had in the history of summers. And what did I even get done?
-I wrote about 16 pages for my novel. That sucks compared to the 50 pages I did last summer.
-I made a little over a thousand at work. Didn't do me too much good though cause I spent most of it already.
-I saw brian a few times. We took some chances and had some fun. All was good.
Hey... since the summer is almost over... that means it's almost time for the NIN CONCERT!!!!!! WOOHHHH *does a dance* theres something I can't wait for. Mmmm Trent.
So... school. I am going to be in the same area I was last year, which is good and nice. I am going to have at least 7 suitemates, which is annoying. There is one excellent thing though, it looks like I just might have a bedroom to myself. Originally a girl named Ana was scheduled to be my room mate, but she was just today moved to another bedroom in the same suite (a triple occupancy room that had only had two people scheduled for it). But does this mean Davis might assign some other girl to my bedroom at any point in time? YES IT DOES. I wish the delicious singleness was guaranteed, but it is a bedroom built for two. I could look at my housing assignment between now and sunday morning before leaving and someone's name could be there. OH GOD I HOPE NOT.
I know many of you have already started school and are probably wondering why the hell I haven't started yet. I have two words for you: Quarter System.
So I read Ender's Game today. Excellent book, jeez. Makes my novel look like horse shit. But thats just how writing is. Shitty first drafts, make it better later. That what I gotta keep on telling myself... yes...
Catch ya later folks, likely after I'm back up in Davis.
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One of the things I found curious about the Ender's Game series is the amount that the writing style changes between books; I've heard that this is because he wrote Ender's Game when he was fairly young, then revised it years later and wrote the others. No idea how true that is though.
I'm not much of a writer, but with my artwork I've found that I'm usually the harshest critic of it. The three best ways I've found of dealing with it are to step back about 10 feet, ask someone else to look at it, and/or leave it alone until I forget it exists, then find it again. Usually with the last one I'll come back to it and decide it's either total crap, or a ton better than I remembered.
Posted by: Catfish_Man at September 20, 2005 12:42 AMYeah I think it says that about ender's game in the intro. Awesome books, as I remember them. I got the others here and I just hope they don't take up too much of my college time.
As for one's own art, I think we're always our harshest critic. Your last idea is definitely good. But when one is in the middle of a draft, you cant get away from it. Cause if you get away from it you'll lose the story. So you have to grin and bear what you feel sucks, with the intent to come back to it later and make it better.
Posted by: Kelly at September 20, 2005 09:15 AM