yourwords

Writer’s block… it’s horrible huh? The hardest thing to do in a book is to change it midflow. It’s plot suicide in my opinion. You kill your personal momentum, and your plot’s momentum. It would be much better to write a bad book, and then go back and change it. By then, you know the book, you know the characters, you know where everything is eventually leading- so all you have to do is switch some things around, rewrite a few scenes. I mean its obviously never easy to edit a book, whether it’s done or not, but I find that if you stop yourself in the middle to revamp, the book never gets done. Well, I can’t take my own advice. Without meaning to, I changed vital information in my book, and have to start all over again. But I cant get the motivation to begin, and take it on once more.

Take my advice, even if your book is bad, and you feel it is bad, consider just writing through. I don’t know if that’s possible, because I thought maybe I could keep going. Then before I knew it, I thought of how to make it better. Now I can’t go back, or forward it seems. I’m sure the clog will pass. It’s draining me though.

Prompt:

I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey…

What is one taboo you would be interested in pursuing, if ever given the chance? Why do you think this appeals to you?

For me, I want to date a straight transvestite. :) When I heard that sort of thing was possible, I got excited! On one hand, transvestites are very vivacious and over the top. That confidence! It’s so sexy! If someone strutted up to me in platform shoes and started flirting with me, god I’d melt. On a deeper level, men make me uncomfortable. Women though? they are on my level. So a man dressed as a women is the best of both worlds. Then, well, let’s just say the idea of doing something socially unnacceptable makes me giggle inside. :)

Words make friends, lovers, and enemies. When used wrong, words get people killed. And learning to express oneself correctly can be one of the most dangerous things you ever do.

For instance, I had a quarrel last night with my boyfriend. We smoothed things out, and by the end of the night, I kissed him goodbye, serene as the Serengeti. Things were not all well, however, as was to be proved by my dreams that night of discomfort, imprisonment, and finally of finding a new boyfriend. Even then, though, I might have let it all go, except when I told someone about it today. My ability to build upon details of importance gave my story a bitter twist that I hadn’t realized was there before. The more I talked about the problem, and the more that detail stuck out to me, the angrier I became. So, even though two hours ago, I was alright with being mad for now, and talking it out with my boyfriend when I cooled down, now I want to tell him why I’m breaking up with him, and never see him again.

I’m entirely confident that if I hadn’t put my emotions into well chosen words, or perhaps emphasized different details, I wouldn’t want to break up at all. The silent passing of decisions, so subtle that I almost didn’t catch it, is a scary prospect. In the course of a moment, what do we do or say or think that completely alters our course irrevocably? For you see, even as I am aware that it was my own words which brought my plan to fruition, I have no intention of changing my mind now. When I try, I become disgusted, for my decision to be disgusted is already made. I should be more careful which of my words I choose to use against my own life.

Prompt:

Characters aren’t playthings that you toss around. The best of your characters will grow a personality, and life of their own. Take a character you’ve created, or create a new character, and build them up to such a level that they are a real person in your mind. Some ways to build up characters are as follows:

1. Work on their name. What were their parents like? Why did your character recieve this name? Is it a family name, or does it mean something deeper? What’s the middle name, and why? Or why don’t they have a middle name? Do people allways call them by that name? Know for certain what their name is, and what it means to them.
2. Create them physically. Do they have a round face? Does their hair do what they want it to? What scars do they have, and why? What is their style of clothing? Is one of their toes missing a nail? Do they smile a lot? Don’t forget that people usually know a lot about their body, so you should too. Know the body and face and clothes so well that you could draw them ten times over, if you were so inclined.
3. Study their history. Were they a bad kid? Did they have acne problems? Did their parents divorce? Why do you think they turned out the way the did? Why do they think they turned out the way they did?

There’s more, but I think I should go lay down for a while. Cool off, you know?