14 posts tagged “writing”

I just started a new microcommunity! If you don't know what that is, no wonder. Apparently, it's something completely new. You've heard about Twitter? This is something similar. You just type in a short status update message to let your friends know what you're up to. This particular community is about writing, naturally. About fan fiction and original fiction.

You're welcome to come in and take a look:

Tonica's Friends

Last night was the first time in our writing course. It was ok, quite fun, though not like the last one. I had worried a lot about the first exercise, but I shouldn't have. (We were supposed to bring a printout from a book that had influenced us in some way. I've been reading since I was three and writing for almost that long, so practically everything I've read has influenced me.) That went ok too. What wasn't quite as much fun was the fact that out of a possible fifteen people (from the last course), only six had signed up and just four actually came. We don't know what happened to the other two. Oh, well, I never expect much from this town. Our efforts to start a writer's group have failed. Only one person outside our family had shown any interest. No one has the time, or the inclination to join a writer's group. :/

This is nothing new, I know, but I think it's quite interesting that dreams can be inspiration for fiction. In my case, it's happened a couple of times already. Once, it was a horrible nightmare (which might not sound quite as horrible if I recounted it), that turned into a short horror story (which is extremely rare for me - normally, I neither read nor write horror). In fact, thinking back, I think most of my ideas based on dreams, have been horror or at least scary. One reason might be that those dreams stand out, which makes me remember them. On the other hand, I once had what was (at least when I woke up) nothing more than a scene, but that one scene turned into a fantasy story. I can still remember how it felt to be 'there' - where I witnessed the scene. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to work all that into the story, but I was quite happy about it anyway.

I've just finished three fanfics. The weird thing is, I'm not even that inspired. Right before I managed to write these I was suffering from severe writer's block (again). Unfortunately, this doesn't mean I'm on a roll. I'll try to write a few more, but basically, the situation remains the same. Still, I'm really glad I got these done. And maybe I really will be able to continue writing. *Keeping my fingers crossed.*

Last night I went to the last meeting of our writing course. It was a lot of fun, but I feel kind of sad too, that it's the last time. We had such a great time together. Up until the afternoon of that day, I wasn't even sure I was going to go, because I haven't been well lately, and especially I've been feeling down. I'm glad I went though, because it was such a success. This came exactly at the right time, because for a while now, things have been really rough.

I really wish we could do something to keep on meeting and discussing our writing. There will be another course, of a kind, next semester, but it won't be the same, because our 'teacher' - the writer - won't be there. It's someone else, who's studying creative writing and that will be a completely different course. Even so, I'm considering going. Maybe some of the others will too.

Last night, we even got to do a little improvisation, led by a drama teacher who's been taking this course too. We even discussed doing a drama course, but I'm not sure that was meant seriously. It's something I've always wanted to do, actually, so if we did it, I'd probably enjoy it. 

At last. I'm writing again! Well, sort of. I'm blogging and I just wrote a fanfic, but hey, it's something.My brain was withering so I'm really happy I finally managed to get it working again. And fan fiction is so much fun. :)

Tonight I went to the 'release party' for our book - the book we, the participants of the writing course - have published. It was quite fun, and I think the guests enjoyed it. The only problem was that we had practically no books to sell. Somehow they've been lost in transit - somewhere between Uppsala and Stockholm and Göteborg... 

I still haven't worked on my novel, but I did get ideas for two original stories. At first I thought I was going to be able to start writing right away, the same night. The night, after all, is my favorite time for writing.

But no such luck. Still, I have worked out most of the things that will go into the stories. Plot, characters etc. I guess I just have cold feet. After writing a couple of stories I've been happy with, I'm afraid of making a mess of these.

The same is true for my novel, but even more so.

Oh, well. Writing is fun, but reading is necessary too. Fortunately, I have a couple of books I can read.

Suddenly, I lost my inspiration to write. I think I can guess why. Lately I've had mood swings. Some nights, I almost cry. In between I feel perfectly ok. Oh, well. Blogging and writing fan fiction can wait. The real problem is that I still haven't been able to finish my novel, but nothing's really changed there, so that's a different problem.

Of course, in the meantime, I still have a couple of other finished books that I'll submit to a publisher. As long as I can stay cheerful and I'm doing my best with that. Going for walks, even on little outings, looking for cool things to photograph, watching movies, even once or twice a week a tv show I actually like.

Though as far as tv is concerned, this is probably the worst time in a long time. Right now, as far as I know, there's just one thing worth watching. Don't get me wrong. I'd complain just as much if there was one or more shows per night, but this is going a little too far in the other direction. No wait, I think Heroes will be back. In that case, I can't complain.

I thought I was done with fan fiction - at least for a while - but I got inspired again and that was that. Though in the past couple of days I've been too tired to finish my last fan fic in the new fandom. Hopefully, I'll feel up to it again soon.

I haven't even blogged that much lately, so it's great to be writing again. Hopefully it won't be long before I've recharged my creative batteries so I can finish my novel.