tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56442187968747914202024-03-14T04:07:26.079+13:00My Online NotepadIf I could use metaphorical leeches to suck all the thoughts and visions from my head and get them to regurgitate it for the world to see, I would use an online blog.C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-68051915284415838092016-01-03T20:31:00.001+13:002016-01-03T20:31:46.161+13:00The cons of having a famous seriesFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
I stumbled upon the preview for this movie because when I'm looking for inspiration, I watch movie trailers. It's set in the Harry Potter universe, some seventy odd years before Harry Potter happened.
It sounds interesting. It tickled my curiosity, but only to the extent of sharing the news on my FB status. I'm not much of a Harry Potter fan. I am a fan C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-12024903405807746372016-01-01T17:17:00.002+13:002016-01-01T17:17:22.452+13:00There are 365 days in a year....
...you can write one sentence every day. Two if you really really have to get it down right then and there. More, if you have the time to do so.
Next year this time you'll have 365 sentences on paper.
How many pages does that equate to? No idea!
The point is that you write, a little bit, a lot, every single day. Make it a habit if you don't have time.
Make it routine if you're not inspired. C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-18576977200712472382015-10-07T09:28:00.005+13:002015-10-07T09:28:59.206+13:00Writing Tip #1[The first scene should]
Establish voice and tone, orient readers in time and space, either start conflict or hint at conflict to come, and - above all - offer the reader something interesting: an intriguing character, a tense situation, a fascinating question, or gorgeous prose.
Quote by Nancy KressC.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-80638182367233746942015-02-02T15:45:00.003+13:002015-02-02T15:45:39.692+13:00All the Bright Places Contest entry
(Photo credit: freedigitalphotos.net)
So the prompt is writing about the place that inspires you most in 555 words.
I don't think I'm going to send my entry in, since I don't live in the US and therefore would forfeit the award IF I had won because they don't post to outside the US yet.
There’s nothing all that flash about it. The bungalows are
white, square, flat-roofed; fairly C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-46064977637981499212015-01-29T16:39:00.001+13:002015-01-29T16:39:30.513+13:00Setting Up Some Writerly Things
I think I need a break from my novel, despite not having really written anything for a week.
One of the local writer's groups that I'm part of on Facebook shared a writing contest for a magazine from our neighbours across the ditch. I had a look at it, being the curious person I am, but decided I'm probably not cut out for what they're looking for (political and cultural themes - things C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-24041438839842667022015-01-24T23:13:00.001+13:002015-01-24T23:13:06.447+13:00
Listening to: BF4 replays
Mood: Curious and hungry
Reading: Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Writing: Chronicles of Derenvere - Black & White (Book 1)
I thought I'd write a quick update on what's happened (and not happened) since December.
I haven't finished my Nano novel. I've only barely scraped the surface of chapter seven at the moment. Not that it's a case of writers' block C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-44173460408378481162014-12-02T14:04:00.004+13:002014-12-02T14:04:50.464+13:00After five years...
Listening to: Fall Out Boy - Centuries
Mood: Still reeling emotionally
Writing: Chronicles of Derenvere - Black & White (Book 1)
So after five years of participating in Nanowrimo and only barely scraping past the mid-20k, I've finally done it. I won my first Nano with a strutting 50,234 words.
I say strutting because I've just gone past the halfway point in my novel and have C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-257583381365094512014-10-24T20:10:00.001+13:002014-10-24T20:10:16.448+13:00Taking the Plunge
I wasn't going to do it this year. I wasn't planning on joining in, anyway.
Yet here I am, 6 days left to go and scheduling in my Nano calendar.
So I guess it's safe to say that I have not gone sane yet.
C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-3111832750501817412014-10-06T21:00:00.001+13:002014-10-06T21:05:08.069+13:00The One-shot habit
Listening to: The Pretty Reckless - Heaven Knows
Mood: dipping my toes back in the water
Writing: One-shots/cut scenes for Chronicles of Derenvere
I don't know if any other writers out there do this, too.
I picked up this habit on fanfiction sites such as Twilight Tales and Fanfiction.net.
Whenever I try to get into, or back into, a fandom, I start off with one-shots.&C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-28717408048983370262014-10-01T18:28:00.000+13:002014-10-01T18:28:01.588+13:00Write, burn-out, beta-read, rewrite, repeat.
Listening to: Avril Lavigne ft OneRepublic - Remember When
Mood: Meh.
Writing: The Chronicles of Derenvere
I'd like to start this post off with: No, I am not participating in Nano next month. It would be the first time since discovering Nanowrimo that I don't join in the chaos.
But I am getting back into the swing of writing again. Not to imply that I haven't been writing, but I am C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-25218105803189919002011-12-21T16:23:00.001+13:002011-12-21T16:23:26.086+13:00That blank stare...
Listening to: Annabel Fae - Already HomeMood: tired from this cold...who gets a cold in summer anyway?Plotting: my hubby gave me an awesome bunny ^_^
Welcome to the blog of randomness!And that's the opening line I came up with after staring at the screen for several minutes. Writer's block, maybe? Or it could be that I just have too many things I want to blog about and can't decide on which.
C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-41991169114170741692011-12-01T14:48:00.001+13:002011-12-21T15:56:08.257+13:00Something I learned this YearListening to: Love the Way you Lie - Eminem ft RihannaWriting: Nanowrimo 2011 NovelMood: disappointed
First off: CONGRATULATIONS to all the passionate writers out there who made it to the golden 50k words!
Nanowrimo officially ended for me yesterday. I got to a whooping 26 000 (and some other numbers) words. So another year gone by where the goal line is just out of my reach, but I gave C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-2160862309502851612011-11-10T16:08:00.000+13:002011-11-10T16:08:01.091+13:00At this rate you will finish on December 8,2011.
I have a prologue and I have my first two chapters down. I'm on chapter 3 at the moment and it feels like I've only started picking up momentum now.
I met my MC, Haley, where she was leaving the principal's office after some incident (earlier that day she slipped and smacked her head into the floor and her sisters' friends laughed at her - Haley didn't appreciate that much so there C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-63512481220083327692011-11-01T13:57:00.000+13:002011-11-01T13:57:26.067+13:00Day 1 - Hello Nano, meet my Life!
I'm fairly sure that since midnight last night, just about everyone in my region has a word count higher than 0. Everyone except for me. It's lunchtime and that 0 is still there.
But you know what, I'm not going to sweat it this year. There's no pressure. It'd be nice if I could finally make the 50k, of course, but I'm not going to lose sleep, weight and a social life because of it. So on my C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-10308814654226559272011-10-23T12:00:00.000+13:002011-10-23T12:00:26.972+13:00The muse & plot bunny vs reality
I'm going to write a little story so that my friends and family (who are not writers) will have a much better idea what it means when a writer says 'The muse is calling my name!', or 'I'm inspired', or 'I NEED TO SIT DOWN AND WRITE, NOW!'
Your child/younger sibling/best friend (muse) has been very good with keeping themselves occupied while you deal with the C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-44924615044488046612011-10-13T10:12:00.000+13:002011-10-13T10:12:30.127+13:00Of Genres and NanowrimoListening to: The Devil's Trill by Vanessa MaeReading/revising: Shadow Legacy (w/t)
I had a scout around to familiarise myself (again) with the different genres and sub-genres out there. I've never slotted my work into a genre before. I've labelled myself a horror writer, because that's what I tend to read, watch, and breathe, but the horror in my mind translated onto paper oddly enough doesn't C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-14395342206363066462011-10-03T17:03:00.000+13:002011-10-03T17:03:30.000+13:00Beta Reader vs Alpha ReaderListening to: Unbreakable - FireflightRevising: Shadow Legacy (w/t)
Back in the day, when I had the luxury of morning and afternoon two-hour-duration naps to do my writing in, I was very much addicted to writing fanfiction(FF). The first writers I ever encountered and befriended were reviewers and authors on fanfiction.net. That was the allure of it - the reason why I opted to spend more time C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-8583742806985744932011-10-01T07:02:00.000+13:002011-10-01T07:02:02.653+13:00Revision: And so it begins.
Listening to: Hero - SkilletMood: Can't-think-straight-tiredReading: Demon in my View by... can't remember author name.Writing: Shadow Legacy
I have, at long last, taken the actual plunge into revision.
I'm on page 7 of my 112 page novel. My previous attempt at 'revising' it was a complete bugger because I had started to rewrite it from scratch.
Without a solid plot outline drafted up to C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-54027090326356448082011-09-16T22:00:00.000+12:002011-09-16T22:00:10.812+12:00Shadow Legacy (working title) and goal setting
Listening to: Evanescence - Lose ControlReading: The Forbidden Game - L.J. Smith
I have a completed manuscript of 39,692 words with an actual beginning, middle, and end, that has been nagging me for a revision for a long time now. The versions I have of it on my computer say that it was created in 2007, but I'm pretty certain that I wrote it sometime between 2005-2006. The original draft C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-81504162903365459292011-09-16T21:14:00.001+12:002011-09-16T21:15:36.569+12:00Blogpost 27 March 2010/Bayonetta review and some writerly rambles
Reposting this because I'm no longer using the other blog.xxxxxxxx
So, due to over-abundance of boredom and nothingness, I decided to play some more Bayonetta. I completed Route 666 - and that bike is killer. Although the game smacks of facepalm-worthy moments (the cherub statue with the tallywanker episode;the nutty babyfaced thing in Paradiso that falls in love with Cereza, to name a couple) C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-86518589765931073002011-08-27T08:20:00.000+12:002011-08-27T08:20:58.943+12:00Book Review: The Haunted
"Spectacular! The Hollow keeps you reading from beginning to end without coming up for air." - L.J.Smith, bestselling author of The Vampire Diaries and Night World.
I have a knack for picking trilogies, don't I?
Miss Smith couldn't have described the reading pleasure of this book any better. I got sucked in from the first line, and I didn't want to put it down until I got to the end. (Of C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-1374760069843280882011-08-22T11:10:00.000+12:002011-08-22T11:10:45.644+12:00Horror nibbles
Listening to: Ça Vaut Mieux Que D'attraper la Scarlatine Reading: TVA - Last SacrificeWriting: Black Eyes (title may change without warning)Revising: Shadow Legacy
I'm the kind of person who absolutely loves to watch 'extremely' intense horror movies. There was a stage where I'd watched just about every horror movie that our video store owns. I've read just about every YA horror book in our C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-53251542073443032082011-08-20T12:05:00.000+12:002011-08-20T12:05:12.286+12:00Book Review #1
The Vampire Diaries/ Stefan's Diaries, Volume 1, Origins - by Alloy Entertainment & L.J.Smith
Listening to: Rolling in the Deep (Adele cover) - Linkin ParkReading: book #2Writing: FF (for inspiration)Revising: Shadow Legacy
It's taken me a while to blog about this book due to the fact that I'm a fan of the original Vampire Diaries books. I found my inner fangirl sabotaging all my points C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-32379310897838853742011-08-13T17:31:00.001+12:002011-08-13T17:32:06.322+12:00Stories that inspire us
Originality is the art of concealing your sources ~ anon Reading: Last Sacrifice - Richelle MeadListening to: The Script - NothingMood: I've got a persistent headache. You can imagine.
We've all read That Book, or seen That Movie. The One that inspires you to create something of your own, that puts the wildfire in your heart and has you up at 1am in the morning, typing like a C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5644218796874791420.post-69750596132585121142011-07-24T09:46:00.000+12:002011-07-24T09:46:36.931+12:00Blog savvy
Listening to: Unbreakable - Fireflight
I procrastinated updating my blog this morning by surfing the blogosphere and reading random blogs. Now I'm not tech savvy, so I was having major fits of envy about all these thousands of people who possibly incorporated some HTML into creating their own expanded blogs.
Instead of feeding my green-eyed monster, I decided to go back and edit some C.Boschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426313847844722949noreply@blogger.com0