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Hello new people and welcome to my livejournal. Thank you for friending J.
As I do non-fiction posts relatively rarely and am not sure what to say I’m just going to dive right in and talk about some of my real life stuff and writing that’s going on at the moment.
I’ve decided to put my attempts at a novel on hold for a couple months. I worry about my muse playing with my anxiety issues. My friend pointed out I could just stop writing if it became too much of a problem. Because yes, just stopping in the middle of writing something is totally something I’m capable of. I totally do not have a fic I started in 2010 that I’m still intending on finishing. I suppose she does have a point though. If it was detrimental to my health I’d have to stop.
My six month probationary period at work finished a week ago. Which yay! Some level of job security. On the other hand I’ve had quite a hard week with my anxiety. I think I was holding on a little too hard on getting through the six month probation without and thought that after I wouldn’t have to be so anxious as I wouldn’t be on probation anymore. I forget that I can’t think so logically when it comes to how my anxiety issues are going to choose to manifest.
Hmm, yeah, I guess I don’t do light and fluffy welcome posts.
Anyway back to the writing, I’m going to focus on shorter pieces for now but still do planning for the novel. I really need to understand the language and voices the characters use properly before I begin anyway. The main premise is a slave rebellion, with slaves fighting to overthrow the regime. Would a slave who has only ever known masters speak like a slave? In terms of submission yes, in terms of phraseology probably not. There are also slave ‘training’ centres so I need to think about what someone trained from birth would’ve been trained to speak like. Would the supposed ‘high quality’ slaves be given different training in use of language and if so wouldn’t the trainers of ‘lower quality’ slaves try to replicate the language usage so they would get more money for them.
But of course before I can do any of that I need to develop the type of English everyone speaks. I want to go beyond mere surface adjustments of the odd word here and there. I have decided that the word ‘waxed’ will be used as a synonym for excited though.
What have you been writing? What writing obstacles are you currently navigating? Come sit by my fire, let’s discuss.
As I do non-fiction posts relatively rarely and am not sure what to say I’m just going to dive right in and talk about some of my real life stuff and writing that’s going on at the moment.
I’ve decided to put my attempts at a novel on hold for a couple months. I worry about my muse playing with my anxiety issues. My friend pointed out I could just stop writing if it became too much of a problem. Because yes, just stopping in the middle of writing something is totally something I’m capable of. I totally do not have a fic I started in 2010 that I’m still intending on finishing. I suppose she does have a point though. If it was detrimental to my health I’d have to stop.
My six month probationary period at work finished a week ago. Which yay! Some level of job security. On the other hand I’ve had quite a hard week with my anxiety. I think I was holding on a little too hard on getting through the six month probation without and thought that after I wouldn’t have to be so anxious as I wouldn’t be on probation anymore. I forget that I can’t think so logically when it comes to how my anxiety issues are going to choose to manifest.
Hmm, yeah, I guess I don’t do light and fluffy welcome posts.
Anyway back to the writing, I’m going to focus on shorter pieces for now but still do planning for the novel. I really need to understand the language and voices the characters use properly before I begin anyway. The main premise is a slave rebellion, with slaves fighting to overthrow the regime. Would a slave who has only ever known masters speak like a slave? In terms of submission yes, in terms of phraseology probably not. There are also slave ‘training’ centres so I need to think about what someone trained from birth would’ve been trained to speak like. Would the supposed ‘high quality’ slaves be given different training in use of language and if so wouldn’t the trainers of ‘lower quality’ slaves try to replicate the language usage so they would get more money for them.
But of course before I can do any of that I need to develop the type of English everyone speaks. I want to go beyond mere surface adjustments of the odd word here and there. I have decided that the word ‘waxed’ will be used as a synonym for excited though.
What have you been writing? What writing obstacles are you currently navigating? Come sit by my fire, let’s discuss.