Defragging
Jun. 19th, 2007 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI've been spending my writing time this week doing a writing exercise. That isn't something like "the gap" or "driving to the story," it's something more personal.
The Journal Entries are a huge, sprawling work, with a ridiculous number of settings and characters, and they're all clamoring in my head for attention. After a while, the number of ideas has simply built up to the point where I've got to do somethig with them: they're occupying creative cycles that I should be using for the current work in progress.
So I've been defragging, spewing out all of the story fragments and scene ideas stuck in my head down into their own little story folders. I allow myself about a thousand words per fragment, just enough to get down the essentials: a love scene between Wren & Katrina; a character from Sterlings: Polestar abasing herself in a chapel to the goddess; a young man in a downward spiral receives a most peculiar delivery; Aaden and Wish at a tea shop just before a bomb goes off; Aaden and Ken standing next to a coat rack, discussing whether or not Aaden has a "manly" voice; Aaden and Ken at a wine tasting festival; Misuko discussing with an old friend how she can be monogamous when Linia isn't; Belle waking up in her penthouse to realize that old habits have isolated her from the dreams Linia and Misuko taught her how to have; and so on. Once these are down into little note forms, they'll hopefully leave me alone (or sort themselves in priority order) and I'll be able to get back to writing kinky sex.
The Journal Entries are a huge, sprawling work, with a ridiculous number of settings and characters, and they're all clamoring in my head for attention. After a while, the number of ideas has simply built up to the point where I've got to do somethig with them: they're occupying creative cycles that I should be using for the current work in progress.
So I've been defragging, spewing out all of the story fragments and scene ideas stuck in my head down into their own little story folders. I allow myself about a thousand words per fragment, just enough to get down the essentials: a love scene between Wren & Katrina; a character from Sterlings: Polestar abasing herself in a chapel to the goddess; a young man in a downward spiral receives a most peculiar delivery; Aaden and Wish at a tea shop just before a bomb goes off; Aaden and Ken standing next to a coat rack, discussing whether or not Aaden has a "manly" voice; Aaden and Ken at a wine tasting festival; Misuko discussing with an old friend how she can be monogamous when Linia isn't; Belle waking up in her penthouse to realize that old habits have isolated her from the dreams Linia and Misuko taught her how to have; and so on. Once these are down into little note forms, they'll hopefully leave me alone (or sort themselves in priority order) and I'll be able to get back to writing kinky sex.
