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Another update
Jun. 26th, 2009 12:43 amI submitted my first Clarion story tonight, and returned to the Real World to find Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett dead, as well as Jerri Nielson FitzGerald, the scientist who diagnosed and operated on her own breast cancer in Antarctica. It's given me plenty to think about, and no doubt I'll repost that Michael Jackson Billy jean video when I get a moment.
But I promised a Clarion update. And so I note that I picked a way-too-ambitious story project for week one because it happened to be the one I wanted to write. I think I'm already noticing a "Clarion improvement effect" in that for the first time in many years, I actually *plotted* the story. My usual thing is to just start with an image and keep going. I think (read: am hoping) the story structure is better as a result. Certainly, I predicted to my classmates around scene 1 that this would be a 6000 wd story, and it ended up clocking in at 5,995 words. Behold the miracle of plotting!
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....aaaand that's it for tonight. I need sleep. So I'll post more later.
But I promised a Clarion update. And so I note that I picked a way-too-ambitious story project for week one because it happened to be the one I wanted to write. I think I'm already noticing a "Clarion improvement effect" in that for the first time in many years, I actually *plotted* the story. My usual thing is to just start with an image and keep going. I think (read: am hoping) the story structure is better as a result. Certainly, I predicted to my classmates around scene 1 that this would be a 6000 wd story, and it ended up clocking in at 5,995 words. Behold the miracle of plotting!
( Read more... )
....aaaand that's it for tonight. I need sleep. So I'll post more later.
