Nothing much to report for tonight. It's been a pretty nice night, just hung out with some friends and talked for at least four hours. During that time I got a bit of writing done, although rather than continuing with the beginning I began, I started working on the end of the story. I've heard a few times that starting with the end is a rather commonly-used writing style, or at least defining what you want to happen in the end. It can still change, and nothing is even close to being written in stone yet. But I think it's a pretty good idea, starting from the end, and whoever came up with it is a genius in my book (figurative book, not my literal one). It gives you a pretty clear picture of where everything in the story will culminate, and it also gives you a sort of guideline for the rest of the story. For example, after writing the ending I could maybe throw some foreshadowing or something into the story, whereas previously I wouldn't have thought of any way to do that and still remember that it was there in the first place.
Either way (and I know I've probably said this too much anyways) I wrote, and that's the important thing. Honing my skills and all the other things I've said a million times.
In other news, I started on a little short story, although I'm not quite sure where it's gonna go yet. If it goes anywhere, I can guarantee that (currently) it involves treasure hunters, ancient zombies of a dead civilization, and maybe a bit of steampunk for good measure. Emphasis on the "maybe" for the steampunk. That's a genre that's always interested me, but I've never gone too deep into it, and I've never been particularly good at writing it. But I suppose that's what practice is for, right?
Also, I'm ready to admit that the words I'm adding to the titles after the date of each post is absolutely meaningless. I usually just come up with them without much thought put into it, and even so they're usually stupid or cliche anyways. Does that mean I'm going to stop adding them? Probably not.
That's pretty much all I can come up with at the moment. It's nothing special (as if any of my posts have been anything special...it's mostly just me writing because I can :P). Hate to leave so soon but I'm tired and I have to get up early tomorrow morning.
Hopefully in the future, I'll have grown enough as a writer - and just as a person in general - where I can actually write something meaningful here and maybe make some sort of positive impact on someone's life. But until that day, here I am, writing about nothing.
Goodnight!
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