Today I'm hoping to get some more pages written, but I also have some Real Life business to sort out. When I'm not working at Murder One, I tend to get buried in writing or online stuff & everything else gets left to the last minute. I'm trying to be a bit more organised today...
Last night I lay in bed at 1am thinking about the story for BLACK NEON DREAMS, and thankfully I had the worldbuilding breakthrough I needed. I also realised what is wrong with the first 12k, and it doesn't mean I have to rewrite anything. Phew! I think I just need to insert a new Chapter 2 & then shuffle everything else along. The only negative thing is that I also discovered I have to change a piece of terminology that I thought was all my own, but it hit me last night that someone else has used it before in the last few years - in a book in a similar genre. *sigh* I knew it was too good to be true! I could use it, because every story is different and my use of the term has a completely different context, but still... I really admire this author & would hate to be seen as copying her. So I have to think up new terminology that I can live with.
Okay, this post is one of my most random yet. I should probably just end this, but not before advising you to check out The Book Smugglers today and every day of December. They have a huge event on the way - yes, Smugglivus is coming. It's going to be an awesome
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And I'm with you on the whole "no Xmas gifts yet" bandwagon. I guess it is time to go buy those suckers, ain't it? Sigh.
Yep. Christmas gifts. I also have lots of December birthdays to buy for - so inconvenient!
Glad you had the breakthrough, too bad it waited till 1 AM.
Now go get that real life stuff done.
Anyways I hate it when it happens, when we dicover we copy ideas subconsciously. I had an idea about people with sentient weapons that reflect their inner souls, but damn it I already knew from which three anime series that came from. Even though the approach was different it still feels too copied.
Why is it that breakthroughs always come at 1AM? Just when you're warm and comfy in bed, ideas come screaming in and you have to lie there and decide what's more important to you at that moment; stay in your warm, comfy bed or get up and write up the best idea you've had all week.
The muse, she is sadistic.
Whoa, you're energetic.
How can you not have finished your Christmas shopping? You work in a bookstore! :)
And no, I think you've managed even more random posts before, don't worry :)
Yeah, Christmas... I'm always late with that stuff. And not many people I have to buy for will want books, which is very sad.
Inadvertent copying is the worst. Like realizing that my protagonist has Doctor-ish tendencies, like rebelling against her people's Council and having young female human sidekicks. (Upon realizing this, I promptly gave another character a line about how "humans wither and die". This will probably not make it to the final draft. :P)
Re. inadvertant copying & your Doctor-ish tendencies. LOL!! That's funny. But I do like the sound of your protag! ;)
I hope all the Real Life organization makes you feel more...organized. I hate that feeling of looming chaos. Wait, what am I talking about it? I LIVE in Upper Looming Chaos...
But, yeah... I'd like to make a few for 2009. We should consult with each other on this, and help motivate each other to achieve them. Yay!!
Or, yanno, it might just result in a jail sentence for one or both of us. Depending. *g*
PS--I forgot to say that I am crazy about your title. I guess I missed the post where you revealed it--missed a whole bunch of posts--but it is super!
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And thanks, re. BND. It just came to me one day, but I think it sounds more cyberpunk than the book actually is. Which is... um... not at all.
*DISCLAIMER* no cats were harmed in the making of this post
I didn't get cyberpunk from it--I mean cyberpunk is so dead that its references are probably part of the general culture anyway. It just sounds...spooky/shiny.
One of my favourite titles of all time is 'In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead' by James Lee Burke but you can't get away with titles like that in most commercial fiction. Black Neon Dreams is evocative and mysterious, though, plus of course it has three words which is always important for your titles *g*
I like that it sounds spooky/shiny. Yay! I love that JLB title - it's a shame you can't have more of those in commercial fiction... Fabulous.
Yeah. Three-word titles are a MUST. Good thing you know this by now. *g*
I've been buying gifts randomly. I'm almost done, though. I think I have one or two more things to get, then I'm termino. I hate it when I find that I wrote something similar to someone else's writing. I had that happen with one of my short stories, I think, and there was a similar idea from a book I've never even read, I can't remember which one that was. It was probably coincidence, but still. Good luck thinking up new terminology.
*scurries back to do homework*
I've had some advice re. the terminology that goes something along the lines of: just write it anyway. LOL! I dunno about that...
Good luck with the homework! Hope it's not too painful.
LOL, I guess that works Re. terminology.
Thanks. I've got some of it done already, just taking a quick break.
Of course, when the term happens to be used by a favorite author, you *do* feel a little guilty. Meh, guilt is for the weak, but we're only human, after all.