Writer's Brain is contrary
Feb. 19th, 2013 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anthimeriaI mentioned I put Trial on hold to work on the outline for Flying Machines, right?
Plus waxed poetic about the citybuilding I've been doing for Flying Machines, in addition to the outlining?
So why, oh writer's brain, did you decide that whenever my thought processes wandered too far from the City in the Sky, it would wander to my dragon book?
Long story short: the bones of the outline for Flying Machines are finished, after something like twenty-three hours of intensive work over the last five days.
And also I wrote a chapter and a half of Trial, because WHY NOT.
Seriously brain, I do not understand you.
Also, I really really want to wax poetic about citybuilding and how it brought my whole outline together and how knowing how something works means knowing how to break it and then also how to fix it, but I wrote that post already and everyone I live with is sick of hearing about it, possibly literally, so I won't. Suffice it to say that building the City from the ground down was AWESOME FUN and I feel sorry for spec-fic writers who don't enjoy worldbuilding, because I can get GIDDY doing that.
Not as giddy as getting a full request from an awesome agent, but still. SO EXCITED. I have built the City, and it is steampunk-y!
And then there were dragons, the end.
(NB: The steampunk and the dragons are entirely separate projects, though if anyone knows of a story where those two elements are combined, sign me up.)
Plus waxed poetic about the citybuilding I've been doing for Flying Machines, in addition to the outlining?
So why, oh writer's brain, did you decide that whenever my thought processes wandered too far from the City in the Sky, it would wander to my dragon book?
Long story short: the bones of the outline for Flying Machines are finished, after something like twenty-three hours of intensive work over the last five days.
And also I wrote a chapter and a half of Trial, because WHY NOT.
Seriously brain, I do not understand you.
Also, I really really want to wax poetic about citybuilding and how it brought my whole outline together and how knowing how something works means knowing how to break it and then also how to fix it, but I wrote that post already and everyone I live with is sick of hearing about it, possibly literally, so I won't. Suffice it to say that building the City from the ground down was AWESOME FUN and I feel sorry for spec-fic writers who don't enjoy worldbuilding, because I can get GIDDY doing that.
Not as giddy as getting a full request from an awesome agent, but still. SO EXCITED. I have built the City, and it is steampunk-y!
And then there were dragons, the end.
(NB: The steampunk and the dragons are entirely separate projects, though if anyone knows of a story where those two elements are combined, sign me up.)
Steampunk Dragon
Date: 2013-02-20 03:36 pm (UTC)When you mentioned combining steampunk and dragons, this image immediately popped into my head, from a Deviantart account I have bookmarked: http://ironshod.deviantart.com/art/Steampunk-dragon-262127553
Just thought I'd share. :)
Re: Steampunk Dragon
Date: 2013-02-21 09:08 am (UTC)