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It's In The Cards
Sep. 20th, 2011 12:42 pmTried to do some editing last night for my stories--both the OGYAFE and the ongoing and scattershot Hobbits Doing Awesome Things In Standard Fantasyland. There's a certain point in a story where you've got all the major components, but arranging them together is about as easy as making a rubber duckie mosaic in a bathtub--the darn bits keep floating away and never keep their shape.
It's embarrassing to find that one helpful thing there is goddamn INDEX CARDS. Back in my youth, when there was far less in my brain, I could hold onto details of a story world with encyclopedic precision. Now I am using flash cards to remind me what parts go where in a story. And it's SO NICE. I can go through a checklist and figure out what I have to put in or take out!
Probably it'd also help at the moment to fix this Critical Spoon Error I seem to have hit. Might make my writing WAY more coherent, and less likely to be a complete word salad. I don't know about you, but I like my storiesto at least make SOME sort of sense.
Therefore, I will be off today taking a spoon-recovery nap. Sleep: I do it for the STORY!
It's embarrassing to find that one helpful thing there is goddamn INDEX CARDS. Back in my youth, when there was far less in my brain, I could hold onto details of a story world with encyclopedic precision. Now I am using flash cards to remind me what parts go where in a story. And it's SO NICE. I can go through a checklist and figure out what I have to put in or take out!
Probably it'd also help at the moment to fix this Critical Spoon Error I seem to have hit. Might make my writing WAY more coherent, and less likely to be a complete word salad. I don't know about you, but I like my storiesto at least make SOME sort of sense.
Therefore, I will be off today taking a spoon-recovery nap. Sleep: I do it for the STORY!
