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Feb. 1st, 2006 10:05 pmFaugh. Had my life-drawing-inspired emo-fit a bit early, this semester. =_= It's just so goddamn frustrating when I know how to do this shit, I KNOW that I know how to because I did well before and my teacher's approval and encouragement from last semester is the reason I'm in this class - I seriously wouldn't have bothered otherwise, it was only the first class I needed for my degree - and then we come in after winter break, the short break, and I can't control the charcoal and my damn hand won't ferking listen to my eyes and my brain.
Feeling somewhat better now. I'm still feeling kind of sad and discouraged, though. Ah, well. It's nothing a night's sleep won't cure. :3
And some more Robin Hobb. Mmm. Robin Hobb.
You know, I think I've figured out the reason why I don't write so well or so much anymore - I haven't properly sat down to read a nice novel for... ages, really. No wonder I was overwhelmed with temptation and booklust when I went to the library in December. It was the same reason I go on gaming binges after I haven't touched the Playstation for a month or two. I was starved of literature.
The inspiration started pouring back once I got hooked by Assassin's Apprentice. Today between classes I kept getting distracted from my reading of Royal Assassin because a Zenith scenario was plotting itself in my head and things kept falling into place. God, I've missed that. Plotting out a storyline, starting with a random idea and then meandering beautifully down a twisted path and figuring a whole slew of related things along the way.
1. "Hey, there's room for a new character here."
2. "Oh, let's involve him in this scenario, it makes sense."
3. "Wow, this scenario brings out aspects of the secondary main's personality I'd only touched on and hadn't really considered in depth."
4. "Oh wow, the way my main character reacts to the secondary main in this scenario is very telling, it gives his character a solid basis and totally fits in with everything else I've established about him."
5. "So that's how I can work the climax and why my secondary main does what she does there!"
Clearly I need to read more fantasy. Keep this fire burning, baby.
Feeling somewhat better now. I'm still feeling kind of sad and discouraged, though. Ah, well. It's nothing a night's sleep won't cure. :3
And some more Robin Hobb. Mmm. Robin Hobb.
You know, I think I've figured out the reason why I don't write so well or so much anymore - I haven't properly sat down to read a nice novel for... ages, really. No wonder I was overwhelmed with temptation and booklust when I went to the library in December. It was the same reason I go on gaming binges after I haven't touched the Playstation for a month or two. I was starved of literature.
The inspiration started pouring back once I got hooked by Assassin's Apprentice. Today between classes I kept getting distracted from my reading of Royal Assassin because a Zenith scenario was plotting itself in my head and things kept falling into place. God, I've missed that. Plotting out a storyline, starting with a random idea and then meandering beautifully down a twisted path and figuring a whole slew of related things along the way.
1. "Hey, there's room for a new character here."
2. "Oh, let's involve him in this scenario, it makes sense."
3. "Wow, this scenario brings out aspects of the secondary main's personality I'd only touched on and hadn't really considered in depth."
4. "Oh wow, the way my main character reacts to the secondary main in this scenario is very telling, it gives his character a solid basis and totally fits in with everything else I've established about him."
5. "So that's how I can work the climax and why my secondary main does what she does there!"
Clearly I need to read more fantasy. Keep this fire burning, baby.
