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[parthenia]

God, I'm having a spammy week and no mistake. Lessons for the wise:

1. Salad is not a food
My brand-new healthy eating plan (which is best described as Not Invading Russia) began well with a light and delicious Caesar salad at lunchtime. Dinner was less successful.

Note to f-list: DO NOT drink a nice big icy G&T made by a stranger at 9 pm, approximately 8 hours after your last lite'n'lovely meal. For you too may then eat everything you see, drink around nineteen pints of fine wine and then have to lie down on your host's sofa with your eyes shut waiting for the room to stop spinning.

2. Sometimes, vice is its own reward
Mysteriously, my appalling hangover fits rather well with the brain-numbing piecework I am meant to be doing today.

3. It's good to keep Amazon on its toes
I've just ordered New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (mwahahaha) and Chansons d'Amour, and then I may need to go and order more books'n'stuff to tide me over the next 14 days of husband-absence. Any recs, oh wise f-list?

4. Mumbling now
The trip to Glasgow and the various bits of reading/viewing that I've done lately have made me think about sortofkindof writing again. I have some ideas bubbling around. Actually, for some reason, the poetry in the Chansons d'Amour lyrics (not to mention some of the plot) has nudged me into thinking about it. Or at least, dusting off last year's Nanowrimo-fic, and seeing what it looks like and where I could take it.

I'm even tempted to see whether I could file the serial numbers off completely, but don't think that would work. Well. Anyway. I'd like to finish it, even if no one ever reads it. Is that mad?

I suppose a related question is whether you can go back to something that you stopped writing; or does the story just continue to change and twist just out of your reach? And if you have done it successfully...any tips?

Comments

[temaris.livejournal.com]

The only success I've ever had at going back to an abandoned story was to fall in love with it again, and forget what I thought I knew about it. This was very hard. It's do-able, but only on your own terms.

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. I've got lots of tidying-up to do, just to make it readable (truly, it is a product of Nanowrimo-madness), but there's also something not quite right structurally, and I'm damned if I know how to fix that. Still like the premise, though.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

In re 1-b:

Substitute Manhattan for G&T and you would have the explanation for my discovery that French Fries are really good with sushi rolls.

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

Oh, seriously. When B. told me we weren't eating until at least 8.30, I nearly bit his arm off. And the starter was salad, too.

They practically had to roll me home.

[ruric.livejournal.com]

Salad is only a food if it has chicken, fish, cheese, bacon or substantial amounts of pulses added to it *G*

Amazon...heee *goes to order books*

I'm hoping it's possible to go back to stuff - I have a lot I need to dig out and revisit!

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, it had chicken and parmesan. Still pretty light. Loads of lettuce. I was so proud - I hate green things. Unfortunately, dinner was light and late. Graaaaah. I still feel completely dreadful.

Sadly I think my plot development owes quite a lot to whatever I've just been watching. *ponders a youtube account to go and look at the 'mature' Louis Garrel clips*

[lyras.livejournal.com]

1. I love salad, but mine have to include beans, tofu or rice in order to be substantial enough for a meal.

3. Have I recced The Book Thief by Markus Zusak to you yet? It's sort of my perma-rec - I tell everyone to read it.

4. In my limited experience, stories never stop twisting and changing (and sometimes that's a good thing). You just have to write down what you can see of them.

If there are structural issues, maybe go through each chapter or section and look at what they do: move the plot forward? provide necessary information? is this section completely required, can it be merged with another one, or can someone else give us this information?

Of course, I'm so experienced at this myself...

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

1. Thing is, to make salad taste nice you have to add so much fat you might as well just have had the chips in the first place.

3. Hmmmm. *skips off*

4. Good advice that. I will come back to that.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

For you too may then eat everything you see, drink around nineteen pints of fine wine and then have to lie down on your host's sofa with your eyes shut waiting for the room to stop spinning.


You say that like it's a bad thing....

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

*does the technicolour yawn thing*

Oh, it's a very bad thing.