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Mar. 6th, 2009 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI just wrote 7 pages, 2000 words, of a script based on my day at college. So far everything is true, but edited together from different days and with added Comedy Timing. And so far I've only got as far as sitting down and starting the lesson. Getting places takes quite a lot of work.
Now I have two problems. Even if I finish writing this, nobody is going to want to read it. And to finish writing it the exact way it is in my head means using chunks of a real conversation from yesterday, which I probably shouldn't ought to. I think I'll write it and then ask permission. Then on the second draft I can change those bits and see if I can keep it making sense.
I started out just writing about Things That Happened but already by arranging them and adding some timing themes are happening. I only meant to write about Rainbows because they're pretty, but now there's a theme about Order and how things are Supposed To Happen. And it ties in with what I've been studying in Renaissance class, and becomes funny. In my head. To me. Anyway. So, what I mean is, the act of storytelling turns Stuff into Themes, just because you put them next to each other. Although I fear I may be exaggerating things rather to have everything in one day, but story always does that too. Shall see if it is interesting.
ETA: 9 pages and 2678 words. but a lot of them are pasted in from my Renaissance notes so that's not very impressive.
I need to look up how to format stuff that you're seeing on screen, specially if you're meant to see it while people are talking.
ETA2: 10 pages, 2922 words, and I have concluded I am Not Funny. *sigh*
I will continue writing because if I gave up every time I decided something was bad in the middle I'd... end up with a finished work history very greatly resembling my own... oops...
Now I have two problems. Even if I finish writing this, nobody is going to want to read it. And to finish writing it the exact way it is in my head means using chunks of a real conversation from yesterday, which I probably shouldn't ought to. I think I'll write it and then ask permission. Then on the second draft I can change those bits and see if I can keep it making sense.
I started out just writing about Things That Happened but already by arranging them and adding some timing themes are happening. I only meant to write about Rainbows because they're pretty, but now there's a theme about Order and how things are Supposed To Happen. And it ties in with what I've been studying in Renaissance class, and becomes funny. In my head. To me. Anyway. So, what I mean is, the act of storytelling turns Stuff into Themes, just because you put them next to each other. Although I fear I may be exaggerating things rather to have everything in one day, but story always does that too. Shall see if it is interesting.
ETA: 9 pages and 2678 words. but a lot of them are pasted in from my Renaissance notes so that's not very impressive.
I need to look up how to format stuff that you're seeing on screen, specially if you're meant to see it while people are talking.
ETA2: 10 pages, 2922 words, and I have concluded I am Not Funny. *sigh*
I will continue writing because if I gave up every time I decided something was bad in the middle I'd... end up with a finished work history very greatly resembling my own... oops...