The Inevitable Future
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"The writing's in the sand" by Chris Gin
I’ve started working on a new project that I wanted to write about – serial writing. Since I was young I’ve always liked writing fiction of some sort – and I’m not terrible at it, so it’s become something I enjoy. However, it’s incredibly hard for me to schedule creativity – easy to schedule thinking about it, but actually sitting down and forcing myself to write?
Well, that’s the prospect NaNoWriMo runs under, and that’s worked pretty well for the people who write with them. I tried NaNoWriMo last year, and after about a page I stopped – I couldn’t get over the fact that, even though I wasn’t feeling any story or any direction at that moment, I should just keep writing and get words on paper.
I suppose it’s my inner perfectionist, but something about writing crap – at least, crap I knew was crap – bothered me, and I couldn’t get past that.
So I’m taking a different approach. Practice makes perfect, after all, and I won’t get better at writing without practice or feedback, so I figured I’d take the NaNoWriMo concept – just write and see what happens – and apply it to writing a chapter every so often for Sakizaki.
Chapters will tend to be short and, well, will probably be whatever length I feel like making them. Everything will obviously be in a very early stage – unpolished, uncoordinated, and – often – unplanned. I want to get a few chapters ahead before starting to post, so that I can try to get a post up at a consistent basis as opposed to whenever the mood strikes me.
In any case, we’ll see – it’ll be an interesting experiment if anything comes of it.
All the best everyone,
D
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A note on the image: I plugged in “writing” into the Creative Commons search on Flickr, and Chris’ wonderful image was the first one that caught my eye. See the original on Flickr here.
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