Nov. 12th, 2018

bjornwilde: (Default)
Last week I got the fitness bug and went to a bunch of different, low impact group exercise sessions at my local YMCA, since I'm paying for a family membership anyway. Most of it was yoga or yoga inspired and it did a lot of good things for me. My knee twinges and back tweaks cleared up...until Saturday where I went to two different yoga classes back to back.

I don't know if it was two hours of yoga (which was billed as beginner classes) or having an ex-ballet instructor leading the class, but my back is back to being off kilter.

Regardless, group classes are a good fit for me. I will be continuing with the same classes this week, though I'll have to go to a different YMCA since my daughter starts Winter water polo practice in a different part of town. Still, the family membership covers access to the Y nearest the practice, so all is good.

I wrote a bunch last week. 3,000+ words, and the story has gotten to the point were I can't listen to audiobooks on my way to work as I keep thinking of where my story is going and realize I've lost place in the story I'm listening to. Sorry, Ursula LeGuin, but I promise I'll return to Earthsea when I get the rough draft done with my story.

I'm learning how I write as I do it. One thing that has kept me from writing before, aside from the sheer volume of effort and words, is doing it 'right'. Like how do you outline a book anyway? What is the best way to do story structure? And you have to get the research done, and everything has to be perfect...and ...and...bullocks, I'm not writing now.

At this point my method seems to be, a. come up with characters and story (bonus if this included themes), b. brainstorm character & their background, c. maybe outline a rough map of the story arc (character arcs can be included here), c. start writing. What's ending up is a mix of outlining and pantsing, with a healthy realization that I will be editing this and likely doing more research once I get the basic story out. I know my rough draft will be little more than skin and bones, in fact I keep thinking of it as a skeletal draft, but getting it out is the goal right now, and I'm good with that.

Now if two of my three mains would stop changing their details, that'd be nice.
bjornwilde: (03: Ben Grimm)
What a revoltin' development.

'Nuff said, except Excelsior!

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