my plan for story-a-day

ieva — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:29:19 +0000

March is so close that I hope I won’t even have pre-May anxiety attack because, well, there’s not much of pre-May available.
My plan is not to write 31 actual stories but rather to develop 31 stories-in-my-mind by outlining them in handwriting, in my notebook. I don’t know how detailed these outlines will be but I hope for something that I can salvage a workable quote from so that I can put that quote online.
My plan includes also extensive use of I Ching and Tarot cards for setting and inspiration. The more I plan it the less attractive it feels, but I think that if I don’t have a plan it would be better. Probably figuring out the essence of divination an evening before and writing a story after sleeping on it.

I need this a lot. An easy-going attitude to stories, churning them out speedily and then rewriting them up to snuff. Otherwise, my inner editor takes over and says, if there’s not a novel in it, I don’t see the novelty of it.
Screw you, inner editor. You have a say on everything except my stories during May.

slow and steady

ieva — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:46:54 +0000

Today, I did some work on Vega edits (figured out the plot and two subplots out of six). That was rather inspiring, especially since I am reading Sherlock Holmes lately–it seems that mystery line will grow rather strong. I hope I can pull it off since I know next to nothing about mystery writing.
When I got tired of old plots, I put some work on Virgin–not actual writing, but character casting. This time, I did it with Tarot cards, using the awesome (although very advanced) Tarot of the Secret Forest deck. I am thinking of putting together a blog post about Tarot reading as it goes with plotting, my rather haphazard experience. That will take some time though, especially considering how lazy I am and how busy work has been lately–I have zero time to doodle with non-work projects at my office time.

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my plan for story-a-day

slow and steady