11.3.2013 - late post.

Man, I couldn't make it three days without already missing one of my 30 minute sessions (but to be fair, I cleaned house, spent 6 hours at car dealerships, and then helped my husband work on his paper. My plate be full and although it wasn't published on my blog or for my project, I did spend over an hour writing and editing last night.)

But anyways. Today I'm going to write twice, I hope, to make up for it. I was thinking about this post all day yesterday, in fact. You see, the point of this project, aside from getting me to sit down and use the creative part of my brain daily, was to get me out of the rut I've been stuck in... pretty much all of my life. I have quite a few ideas for stories. I have a few characters that bump around in my ahead fairly often, and I want to bring them to life. My problem is that I get too caught up in the details. What's their name going to be, what's the name of the city or town or village they live in, who are they related too, what color are they going to paint their toenails? I waste all this time trying to brainstorm this information and make detailed notes about who they are (because for some reason I think I'll need to reference it), that I never actually just sit down and let the words flow on the paper.

Basically, this is my journal. This project is going to force me to sit down, sharpen some dulled skills, and in a more creative, less analytic way, help me develop these characters, their personalities, their stories. Names may change, stories will likely have very little plot, and you may never get the resolution you were hoping for. I've never taken a creative writing class, and since it's been probably well over 5 years since I've taken an English class, there will probably be some grammar and content errors as well. (But please, feel free to point them out to me in the comments!)

I don't even expect this to be good or well received I just don't want people reading it under the assumption that it's intended to be some Dickens-esque serial where I publish a bit of the story each week. It's not. It's just a girl and her keyboard.

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(That did not take me 30 minutes. Shit.)

Ok... I am a huge Harry Potter and LOTR nerd. I like steampunk, fairies, wizards, magic, enchantment... and the Victorian Era. I love Charles Dickens. One of the BEST, absolutely most amazing novels I've read (and reread) is Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke. I feel like all of my characters live on the same map, just different parts of the same world.

(I'm cutting this one short today - 24minutes, oh well.)