Star Rose

So it seems like the story I will be writing this year is another old friend whom has had many attempts but has never truly been finished. Which also means I will need to write closer to 65k words in order for it to truly be a challenge. I don't doubt the story will get that far, I am just scared of the extra 15k!

This story might be one of the first attempts at a true adventure/rpg style idea I ever had. It's an awesome story and I am looking forward to writing it. I am going to use Scrivener which means that I have time now to outline and build the chapters and scenes, to name the characters and create biographies, and to use the program for an entire novel from scratch this go round. It should be interesting!

I wish the Winter would come sooner...

Music and Writing

I don't think there has been a single line of a single story that I have ever written that did not have a theme song in the background. It's very interesting how much music makes my stories for me. I generally begin a story, get a few (fifteen or so) pages in and then go compile a soundtrack. Sometimes a song inspires the story and for a long time I just listen to the single song on repeat.

Because I've gotten back into editing I've been considering this music business again. When I had wrote the original version of LoE:FC (yes it's an acronym now) I didn't have a song for it. I simply holed up in my little mostly unfurnished room and wrote furiously (by hand). When I began to rewrite it (by hand) we had moved and I worked in retail so I had a fluctuating schedule. The theme song at that time was May It Be, by Enya from The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. It didn't make sense to me at the time because back then the story had this horribly tragic ending that was a resemblance of the relationship I was "in" at the time. I couldn't see the forest for the trees so to speak.

When I finally sat down in 2008 to do my first NaNoWriMo I thought of LoE:FC but it didn't happen, I wasn't ready to see the forest yet. Oddly enough LoE:FC doesn't have it's own playlist yet, it piggybacks off another playlist I made in about 2006. May it Be is still a very important song for this story, and likely will still be the theme in my head. But now I see the forest and I understand why the song is so important to the heart of my story.

So this year, since I'm still deciding what to write, I'm trying to look to the music I'm attached to and see if the story lies hidden in the music. So far it seems the music is leaning towards two story ideas. One I call Hitori (Phoenix in Japanese) and the other I'll call Cassandra. Both have been attempted but neither have gotten passed maybe the third page in writing. So I'll be interested to see if either of these stories ends up being the one to get written. There is another that almost always lurks in the shadows waiting, Star Rose, but it's got something like fifteen to thirty pages typed already so I would have to write 50k more than that for the challenge. So I'd be writing closer to 75-90k. We'll see.

Writing without music is like breathing without air, at least to me. 

FALL!

I'm more than a little excited about the awesome patch of cool weather that's come through. There is no time I love more than a cold day at home with some awesome music playing!

I'm trying to focus myself into finishing the last half of edits to Line of Eternity, but it's pretty stop and go right now. I'm almost to the end of the first edits notebook and have written a lot of new scenes in Scrivener. It's been a very good run so far. I am greatly looking forward to seeing the second draft in paperback form.

Yes I am crazy and I will have a paperback version of each draft. I will display them all together and laugh maniacally as I see it come together into a wonderful book.

Each time I edit a scene I am reminded of how much depth this book was missing during the craziness of NaNoWriMo and how that is happening again in 28 days. 28!!! Less than a month! I love the writing without a care chaos that is NaNo. I can't wait for it this year, though I still have no clue which story I am going to write.

I've completed a bunch of paperwork to get the ball rolling for classes at the Community College, in the hope that by starting there in the Spring (I hope, I hope, I hope) I can really hit the ground running and get this B.S. in Psychology done ASAP. Then I just have to take the GRE and apply to grad schools. Woo!

The cooler weather always energizes me, which has always amused me being that I was born right smack in the summer in Florida. Now I just have to figure out some time to get to the beach and soak up that cool weathery, watery, goodness.

Peace!