Mental Comfort
I thought I had it all in gear for getting back into this writing thing. I even had multiple blogs ready to go up here. Then my evil day job did a reorg. I can say that I have survived the cuts… at least for now. But my department is no more. Half got cut and the rest of us are being split up. Thus I have been in limbo for two weeks with the promise of another two to three weeks before things settle. Spiffy.
With the mental and emotional turmoil it’s been tough to concentrate on my stories. Thankfully Samhain is the end of this month so I’ll at least get a long weekend there. In the meantime I’ve been trying different ways of getting my creativity back up and running. Various reference books that have helped in the past just didn’t do enough. A couple of new ones I’ve purchased or received as gifts this year have started a couple things percolating in the back of my brain but nothing’s even close to done cooking yet. I moved my ‘office’ from my bedroom to my living room for a change in view. I managed a little editing on the computer files there. I’ve also been trying to read more of other’s stuff. The novel collection has expanded significantly in the past month and I’ve found a few new authors I’m intrigued by.
Today it’s all about comfort. Hot green tea, cinnamon jelly beans, two computers (one running an rpg I’ve played through dozens of times). And my ultimate in comforts when trying to write… notebook and pen. Events drive a lot in my stories but so do characters. Today has been about creating characters. Using an online random name generator I’ve been creating new friends. Lycurgus, Seosamh, Luben, Caleigh, Margarid, and Evgenia so far. Nope, I don’t do Tom/Dick/Harry type names very often. There’s far too many options in this global world we live in. With somewhere in the vicinity of 7000 living languages… plus the so-called dead languages our current ones evolved from… there’s a lot of choices out there. In exercises like today’s I go through a lot of names until one sparks in my imagination. Then the pen hits the paper and I start fleshing out what I see with that one name. I’ve discussed creating a character before the name before and I find this works much better.
SK
With the mental and emotional turmoil it’s been tough to concentrate on my stories. Thankfully Samhain is the end of this month so I’ll at least get a long weekend there. In the meantime I’ve been trying different ways of getting my creativity back up and running. Various reference books that have helped in the past just didn’t do enough. A couple of new ones I’ve purchased or received as gifts this year have started a couple things percolating in the back of my brain but nothing’s even close to done cooking yet. I moved my ‘office’ from my bedroom to my living room for a change in view. I managed a little editing on the computer files there. I’ve also been trying to read more of other’s stuff. The novel collection has expanded significantly in the past month and I’ve found a few new authors I’m intrigued by.
Today it’s all about comfort. Hot green tea, cinnamon jelly beans, two computers (one running an rpg I’ve played through dozens of times). And my ultimate in comforts when trying to write… notebook and pen. Events drive a lot in my stories but so do characters. Today has been about creating characters. Using an online random name generator I’ve been creating new friends. Lycurgus, Seosamh, Luben, Caleigh, Margarid, and Evgenia so far. Nope, I don’t do Tom/Dick/Harry type names very often. There’s far too many options in this global world we live in. With somewhere in the vicinity of 7000 living languages… plus the so-called dead languages our current ones evolved from… there’s a lot of choices out there. In exercises like today’s I go through a lot of names until one sparks in my imagination. Then the pen hits the paper and I start fleshing out what I see with that one name. I’ve discussed creating a character before the name before and I find this works much better.
SK
posted by Signy | 1:02 PM
1 Comments:
What about a character without a name? Those can be cool too. :-)
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