I do this thing where I talk to my mirror. It looks like I’m talking to myself, and I keep repeating things in different voices. I look like a crazy person. I know this, because I’m looking at myself in a mirror. But it’s not me I’m talking to. I’m hashing out conversations between characters. … Continue reading
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Day 2
Word count as of this morning: 2398 This is extra good. The official recommended daily word count is 1667, and my personal goal is 2000 a day, in the interest of trying to stay ahead. It makes me happy that on this first day, at least, I got in a solid head start. I’ve already … Continue reading
breaking the silence
Rhys has been talking to me lately, courtesy of listening to a lot of MuteMath. For the last few months, when I’m driving around listening to music, imagining things, the people who move, the people whose faces I’ve seen, have mostly been Camille, Mac, Hayley, Kei, and Jul. But in the past week or so … Continue reading
chaos pages
The primordial word soup I was talking about a couple posts ago has a name – chaos pages. This is my new way of sketching out a scene. It feels really right. Right now I’m working on chaos pages for the opening of R+S. I don’t want to introduce too many characters too quickly, but … Continue reading
purpose
Been struggling lately with the ultimate purpose of two of my most beloved characters. By struggling, I don’t mean that they don’t have purpose…it’s more that I’m having a difficult time deciding which aspects of them to focus on in R+S**,what sort of purpose do they serve in the lives of the main characters, how … Continue reading
Aine Crabtree 