Thursday, November 02, 2006
Beta!Lenny
The inevitable Gigantic Catch-up Post is coming...
I'm lazing around to some classic Etta James and Al Green, ready to go to bed.. And I've just received official notification of virus updation of the other computer - I am allowed to use it again.
I stupidly began reading an extended series by Shadowphoenix in the middle of my exams - damn her for being such a great character writer! So there went my many hours *cough* of studying. I only have two left at the moment - English Extension 1 is tomorrow, and then History Extension on Tuesday. Then the HSC is OVER!
So I'll be quietly partying it up until... FRIDAY! Which, in the Lenny-typically-empty-social-calendar is U2!!!!
Yes, yes, massive hoorah and huzzah.
Late last night I came up with a crime story for the exam tomorrow... I wrote out a vague plan (I surprise myself with postmodern elements) and if I like what I write, I might post it up on fictionpress. I have several short stories I've written in the past month or so that I haven't typed up, and perhaps should. I'm finding Jonno's NaNoWriMo quite intriguing, and I especially like Part 3 It's actually quite terrible, because I'm moving into beta mode (editor of internet writings, roughly - it's fanfic talk), and then I make corrections or suggestions in my head.. I was doing that to a fic and mentioned a couple of things in the review... I realise that I only do this with good stories. You know, and I would wish I was the beta reader so I could read it first.. that's the advantage. And then you get to see how the author works and chooses on things and puts them together in the end. Bron, I think, once talked about how marvellous it is to just 'create' things. She's a super art-oh, and I'm not, but I know what she means.
Then I'd start questioning myself - how original am I being? etc etc... But when I've written and plotted lately, I'm purposely being unoriginal..
At Sunday @ Seven, I was playing with Amanda and Will's kid - Zach (who I once caught reading DMAG!) - noughts and crosses and the like. Then we had an Imagination Competition - drawing a dream or something.. I drew a wave, and then added an Egyptian surfie guy doing a bit of a dance.. But you lose your childhood and imagination disappears. Zap. I was always afraid of that.. For example, Zach instantly questioned the wave and turned it into acid. Would I have thought of that? Or would I have kept it in the realms of reality? Most likely the latter. Though, his drawings and stories ended up all being about some acid-producing, man-eating alien monster, I admired the child imagination. Shame on adulthood.
Hmm.. Ab igne ignem... applies to every situation. ^_^ ¶ 10:10 PM
I'm lazing around to some classic Etta James and Al Green, ready to go to bed.. And I've just received official notification of virus updation of the other computer - I am allowed to use it again.
I stupidly began reading an extended series by Shadowphoenix in the middle of my exams - damn her for being such a great character writer! So there went my many hours *cough* of studying. I only have two left at the moment - English Extension 1 is tomorrow, and then History Extension on Tuesday. Then the HSC is OVER!
So I'll be quietly partying it up until... FRIDAY! Which, in the Lenny-typically-empty-social-calendar is U2!!!!
Yes, yes, massive hoorah and huzzah.
Late last night I came up with a crime story for the exam tomorrow... I wrote out a vague plan (I surprise myself with postmodern elements) and if I like what I write, I might post it up on fictionpress. I have several short stories I've written in the past month or so that I haven't typed up, and perhaps should. I'm finding Jonno's NaNoWriMo quite intriguing, and I especially like Part 3 It's actually quite terrible, because I'm moving into beta mode (editor of internet writings, roughly - it's fanfic talk), and then I make corrections or suggestions in my head.. I was doing that to a fic and mentioned a couple of things in the review... I realise that I only do this with good stories. You know, and I would wish I was the beta reader so I could read it first.. that's the advantage. And then you get to see how the author works and chooses on things and puts them together in the end. Bron, I think, once talked about how marvellous it is to just 'create' things. She's a super art-oh, and I'm not, but I know what she means.
Then I'd start questioning myself - how original am I being? etc etc... But when I've written and plotted lately, I'm purposely being unoriginal..
At Sunday @ Seven, I was playing with Amanda and Will's kid - Zach (who I once caught reading DMAG!) - noughts and crosses and the like. Then we had an Imagination Competition - drawing a dream or something.. I drew a wave, and then added an Egyptian surfie guy doing a bit of a dance.. But you lose your childhood and imagination disappears. Zap. I was always afraid of that.. For example, Zach instantly questioned the wave and turned it into acid. Would I have thought of that? Or would I have kept it in the realms of reality? Most likely the latter. Though, his drawings and stories ended up all being about some acid-producing, man-eating alien monster, I admired the child imagination. Shame on adulthood.
Hmm.. Ab igne ignem... applies to every situation. ^_^ ¶ 10:10 PM
