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Did I Write This Week? – Perspicacious Geek

by on September 13, 2016 at 12:28 pm
Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Keith, Perspicacious Geek
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I had taken a cool picture of my notebook up at the cottage but then my SD card crashed, so here’s a cool picture of the rain in NDG

Did I Write This Week? I sure did. Actually, quite a bit. Which is good because it’s been two weeks since I’ve written one of these so if I hadn’t, it would be extra shameful.

What Did I Write?

So this was an interesting little period for me since I got to do a couple of different little creative writing workouts.

Despite not being my turn up as “head writer” for our little comic strip, we’ve had a few sessions lately hammering out the next comics from Jon and Sophie. Everyone kind of has a different style of how we approach the comic-writing process, and in this case both Jon and Soph only had sort of vague ideas and a few punchlines. The four of us then sit around and think about how to structure it into 4 strips, each with its own joke, that also kind of tells a story and wraps up to some degree at the end of the final comic.

I really like the process, I like the immediate response of knowing whether or not a joke lands (even if it comes at the price of immediately seeing that something you think is hilarious falls totally flat to three other people) and I like being able to ask questions like “will people get this?” and having a group to figure it out, or to make it pop a little more. You can get stuck in your own head writing and it’s pretty easy to down on yourself. Writing in a group gives you a bit of validation for your good stuff and also lets you know what your bad stuff is almost immediately.

Really hope that with everyone’s new schedule we’ll be back up and rolling weekly again with the comics, since chilling with the gang and writing funnies is one of my favorite things to do.

I wrapped up another piece of Zombies and Loathing, which is turning out to be more and more of a chore as I get more excited to really start cutting into the supposed novel plan. It’s good though. My idea, as previously mentioned is to get the last parts finished up and then publish them to the site. I also want to test my hand and editing them so I’ll likely be going back to Part 1 and revising everything. After that, I think I will make it all available on Amazon for free or a penny or something. Whatever. It will be done and that is what will matter. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Did I Write This Week? – Perspicacious Geek

by on August 30, 2016 at 4:27 pm
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20160830_135840Did I Write This Week?

YES! But not as much as I would have liked to.

What Did You Write?

Once again trying to flesh out and finish Zombies and Loathing, I’ve got about 700 words of the next part down. I’m thinking that when I’ve got 3 or 4 of the final 6 parts completed I’ll start posting them. So there’s that.

Last week I spoke about the struggles of actually finishing a project. Back in June I talked about how I generally try to stay motivated without someone breathing down my neck and the reality that in all likelyhood there won’t be any sort of financial payoff.

I’d like to (and who’s going to stop me) expand on that a little bit.

Last time I really focused on writing for the joy of it, not taking yourself too seriously and kind of forgetting that maybe, if you’re incredibly talented, motivated and lucky, you could make some money doing the creative thing that you love.

This week I’m going to let myself dream a little bit and imagine what it would be like if someone told me “Hey, I would like you to write about this, and I will pay you.” Or, more realistically “Hey, I would like you to write about this, and I will give you exposure.”

What do you do then? You’re doing this thing (be it writing, making music, painting, pro wrestling, or whatever) and you’re all about just doing it for fun and for yourself. Now, somebody comes along and is wanting to make it a little more professional, either offering you actual financial compensation or some other intangible reward (like exposure and recognition). ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Did I Write This Week – The Perspicacious Geek

by on August 24, 2016 at 4:35 pm
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diwtwAs promised, my weekly log/confessional about whether or not I managed to make time to write.

Did I Write This Week?

Yes!

What Did You Write?

I finally got around to writing Part 14 of Fear and Loathing after the Bomb. That’s exciting, right? Remember in 2012 when zombies were all the rage?

I thought it would be fun to take my own little spin with the zombie genre and inject a little gonzo style journalism into the mix. I wrote 13 parts between April 2012 and March 2013, which, all things considered isn’t too bad.

Anyhow, I’ve got a pretty big problem creatively and that’s that I can’t finish things. When I start a story, I’ve got this idea of an outline. I create the characters, the premise, the setup but I almost never know how it’s all going to play out. I enjoy letting the story breathe a bit and let it grow a little before I actively think how I’m going to tie up all my plot points.

It’s probably not the best way to write, but I’ve never really claimed to know what I’m doing.

At some point or another I figure out my ending and then I stop actually writing. Part of the joy of writing for me is figuring out exactly what story I’m trying to tell and I’ll admit, once I figure that part out the process loses some of it’s luster.

This has pretty much been a problem for me for as long as I can remember. My first “serious” attempt at writing something was some kind of a sci-fi epic about a space station built around the remnants of Earth that had been blown apart in a nuclear war. The explosion had knocked Earth out of the orbit of the Sun so humanity could no longer actually survive on its surface so humanity built this space station around the remnants of the planet. I’m sure the science doesn’t hold up. I’m also sure I was about 13. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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