It's been a while

It's been a while since I've written a blog post. Thanks to talking to Anna from writing group I'm going to make more of an effort. Even if I'm not writing nearly enough maybe going through some blogging exercises will get me back into it. I'm really looking forward to nanowrimo this year and I'm definitely going to do the prep challenge in October so I'll be ready!

I've been toying with the idea of writing a short story. The news story on the mountain lion trying to get into the casino just inspired me. I thought of writing a comedy from the mountain lion's point of view. It was such a cute animal. I'm a little glad I wasn't at the casino though! I might not have thought so rationally. I feel sorry for it overall. We have been taking up so much of the animal's space what choice do they really have when humans are constantly expanding their habitat and the mountain lion was not out to hurt anyone or do anything wrong. :/

Let's see... Doctor Who is going to be starting up soon? I can't wait for that! It's an inspiring show but I don't think I have the creativity to venture into sci-fi.

I was thinking of doing something Brothers & Sisters esque for Nanowrimo because the show was a really great inspiration and just got the writer in me going. I don't know if I could handle all the intricacies of something along the lines of the Walker family.

That's all I have for now... Sick day from work and I got a blog post done. At least I did something productive. ;; I'd rather be at work though.

Writer's Group 5/12/2011

This week I was finally able to make it to my writing group again and that was amazing. We chatted quite a bit of course but I actually put down about a paragraph on my short story on top of about 500 words between the two writing prompts. I rather liked working with the prompts even though I found the second one 'Now that she was gone, I could tell the truth.' really difficult to work with. I managed about a paragraph on it though! And it would make for an interesting beginning to a short story but I'm not sure it's a story I'd actually be all that interested in.

The first prompt was to write about the first time your character felt humiliated. I had a lot of fun with that prompt and it could also be an interesting flash fiction but I don't really know (or care) how to expand on it so I think I will merely leave it alone. It's saved so I could always go back to it if I felt like I wanted to.

I'm happy that my Damon and Luke story is now sitting at 3880 words which means that progress has been made. I'm going to get some more work done on it and I'll be at starbucks all day which always helps the creative processes.