The Tormented Soul of a Writer
Jul. 30th, 2002 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravencallscrows...or, My Life as a Compulsive Starter But Non-Finisher
If it's longer than a vignette, I can start it, but finishing it is a chore. I can finish verse. I can write vignettes of five pages or less, usually in a single sitting, and have them read passably enough to not destroy all of what i've written the next morning. When inspiration hits, i can follow the whim of my Muse of the moment to fair length, but completion seems to be an evanescent glimmer- a will o' the wisp on the horizon.
"The Outsiders" should run ten pages or so, and be a credible short story when complete, but it's sitting at about a page and a half, although i know where both elements of the storyline are going and how the whole package ties together.
Melpomene's Daughter is in the sixty page range now, but i'm only about a tenth of the way through the tale i'm retelling, and haven't touched it in a while (although i may do some on it in the coming weeks if i end up with time off).
I'm feeling the motivation presently to write artful smut again. Wonder if i should subject some of my friends to my lurid prose....
If it's longer than a vignette, I can start it, but finishing it is a chore. I can finish verse. I can write vignettes of five pages or less, usually in a single sitting, and have them read passably enough to not destroy all of what i've written the next morning. When inspiration hits, i can follow the whim of my Muse of the moment to fair length, but completion seems to be an evanescent glimmer- a will o' the wisp on the horizon.
"The Outsiders" should run ten pages or so, and be a credible short story when complete, but it's sitting at about a page and a half, although i know where both elements of the storyline are going and how the whole package ties together.
Melpomene's Daughter is in the sixty page range now, but i'm only about a tenth of the way through the tale i'm retelling, and haven't touched it in a while (although i may do some on it in the coming weeks if i end up with time off).
I'm feeling the motivation presently to write artful smut again. Wonder if i should subject some of my friends to my lurid prose....
