Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

I dont want to abandon the weekly writing post but I sure wish I had something more to say. Granted I'm a bit not myself right now.

Let's see, naturally the big news was I sold another story this week. Yay.

My writing was abdominably slow until yesterday which I did accomplish a lot. Not so today mind you but at least i have that.

halfamoon is starting their 2 week celebration of the women in fandom tomorrow (why do they get just 2 weeks, i do not know). I encourage people to give it a shot.

I'm not going to get into a discussion about writing female characters. been there done that and rahirah said it very well recently. To paraphrase, if you want to see strong females in a story, write them. Sounds like good advice to me.

So here's my challenge for the week, write a scene from the point of view of one of your female characters (if your story is first person male then at least include her dominately in whatever he's seeing). Rearrange an existing scene to her pov if you'd like. Did it get better? Worse? Have fun with it. I'm going to have to trot out my nano and work on it since right now both original fic stories I'm working on are m/m romances and not a lot of women in it.

Maybe that's why I'm so jazzed about halfamoon It's been a while since i wrote a woman.

11728 / 175000 words. 7% done!

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun! I think.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

poke a character into action

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*stares a numerous female characters*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

there are plenty to pick from

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the story sale!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

[corposant.livejournal.com]

This sounds like such a great idea and a fun challenge. Unfortunately I have been buried in so much school work this week that I barely have time to finish all my assignments let alone write creatively! I'm excited to read yours and other people's writings though.

Also, congratulation on selling a story!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

and I hear you on that one

[winters-queen.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun. I'm not that good with fanfic to really write anything in regards to that though.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

readers are always good

[winters-queen.livejournal.com]

That I could do.

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Too bad it's a fanfic challenge, not OF. I thought my Nano novel was going to be about the alchemist Pendrake, but the druidess Eithne hijacked the plot shortly into the story. Apparently the book is going to be, in large part, about her growth journey to empowerment, with Pendrake as the vehicle, not the protagonist. Not at all what I expected (but it would fit the "strong female character" guideline, most definitely).

"Eithne" is pronounced "Enya," by the way. I didn't know that when I chose the name, and now that I've written it one hundred million times it's too late to go back and change it. Stupid Gaelic.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

actually they're totally pissing me off so you didn't miss a thing other than aggravation.

But I'll be glad to meet Eithne (I have yet to read your stuff. I apologize...i can't find time to do anything)

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

I can't seem to find time to post any more of Ever Summer, so don't feel bad about not having time to read it. I mean, it's already written. All I have to do is copy and paste, so what's my excuse?

On a similar note, have you posted any more of your NaNo writing? I believe I saw some of the novel, but only a snippet. Send me a link if there's more of it somewhere. I'm interested to read further (and I'll keep in mind that it's raw NaNo-babble if you promise do the same when you read mine).

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'll try to put up a few chapter here. It's on my original fiction filter too but yes it's frighteningly raw.

still haven't read yours. go me