Posting, Life, Free Book
May. 8th, 2008 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kateelliottI would have a difficult time creating a full time online persona for myself--that is, a daily blog presence--because I go through so many mood shifts some of which involve thinking that I don't have anything to say and others of which involve simply being too focused on my work to think of anything outside of the novel I'm working on and also because every once in a while I am just too busy having a life beyond the screen of my iMac.
So, you may ask, what have I been doing?
Writing. Today: one step forward, three steps back. I discovered that the scene I had hoped to quickly finish up in order to get onto a New Section (always exhilarating in the sense that one feels one is Finally Moving Forward) contained in fact an entire restatement and therefore repetition of a Major Important conversation two characters had already had. So I had to go back and rewrite the earlier scene, move the first half of the later scene, and realize that in fact I would not today get to the New Section at all nor even make my general daily allowance of 2000 words a day (first draft, quick and dirty to get everything laid down before major rewrites).
What's good is that the rewritten scene is, naturally, stronger than the original version.
That's what I have to say.
Meanwhile, on the interweebs,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
msagara could pretty much be speaking for me with this post:
I've said before, and will no doubt say again, that I like LJ because it's like one big, rambling, splintering conversation. It's hard, however, to just stand like an eavesdropper at the edge of conversation without eventually feeling that you're taking without giving. . .
. . .So I had to give myself permission to be boring. I had to give myself permission to be irrelevant.
Elsewhere, not on lj (as difficult as that may be to believe), Bankuei writes on Disengagement Tactics:
So, here’s the thing- how do we operate online and create spaces where we’re not constantly subjecting ourselves to foolishness? The big push I’ve seen in the last few years in terms of the way many of us are dealing online is a certain set of tactics for disengaging from the crazy.
(link gacked from Naamen at Words From the Center, Words From the Edge)
Curiously, one post is about Engagement and the other about Disengagement. Some kind of cosmic balance? You decide.
Back on the fantasy ranch, a solidly positive review of Shadow Gate at The Wertzone.
Finally: what about that mention of a free book?
Spirit Gate is this week's free download at the new forthcoming Tor mega-site
How cool is that?
All you have to do is to go there and sign up.
So, you may ask, what have I been doing?
Writing. Today: one step forward, three steps back. I discovered that the scene I had hoped to quickly finish up in order to get onto a New Section (always exhilarating in the sense that one feels one is Finally Moving Forward) contained in fact an entire restatement and therefore repetition of a Major Important conversation two characters had already had. So I had to go back and rewrite the earlier scene, move the first half of the later scene, and realize that in fact I would not today get to the New Section at all nor even make my general daily allowance of 2000 words a day (first draft, quick and dirty to get everything laid down before major rewrites).
What's good is that the rewritten scene is, naturally, stronger than the original version.
That's what I have to say.
Meanwhile, on the interweebs,
msagara could pretty much be speaking for me with this post:I've said before, and will no doubt say again, that I like LJ because it's like one big, rambling, splintering conversation. It's hard, however, to just stand like an eavesdropper at the edge of conversation without eventually feeling that you're taking without giving. . .
. . .So I had to give myself permission to be boring. I had to give myself permission to be irrelevant.
Elsewhere, not on lj (as difficult as that may be to believe), Bankuei writes on Disengagement Tactics:
So, here’s the thing- how do we operate online and create spaces where we’re not constantly subjecting ourselves to foolishness? The big push I’ve seen in the last few years in terms of the way many of us are dealing online is a certain set of tactics for disengaging from the crazy.
(link gacked from Naamen at Words From the Center, Words From the Edge)
Curiously, one post is about Engagement and the other about Disengagement. Some kind of cosmic balance? You decide.
Back on the fantasy ranch, a solidly positive review of Shadow Gate at The Wertzone.
Finally: what about that mention of a free book?
Spirit Gate is this week's free download at the new forthcoming Tor mega-site
How cool is that?
All you have to do is to go there and sign up.