Musing and Philosophising.

I think I'm going to try and commit to updating this little blog more often - I kind of did that when I said I would be posting my NaNo project on here but I meant more on a regular basis. I need to get back in the habit of writing again - whether it be the large scale writing projects I (attempt to) tackle to something shorter to write - something to help me get in the right frame of mind to tackle those other things. Warm ups basically.

I've ranted and complained and constantly griped on this blog about how I struggle to write every day and how to get motivated and how I never get anything done anymore. I open up Scrivner - stare at it for a moment and then I am claimed by lethargy or - just when I think the muse is about to strike and I feel close to picking up the pen, something else crops up: someone wants to chat on Skype or something, just when I think: "this is it. Today's the day I really get going.".

I am not even going to say "But this time I really mean it" because that phrase has, in and of itself, lost all meaning.

I don't want to say 'make myself do it', or 'force myself to sit down and write' - that's entirely the wrong frame of mind. Writing is something I want to do - a chance to explore new horizons, gaze upon grand vistas and worlds, observe the turmoils of people far more interesting than myself - but those phrases about 'forcing' and 'making' sound more like its a chore, a tedious task that has to be tackled every day.

Writing fantasy is not that - I need to stay positive and approach this from a new angle. I have to want to do it, I have to get invested in the story. Planning, as I mentioned briefly in the last post with the overly complicated story, is really not something I do. I've tried outlines and I've tried figuring out the plot in advance so I can have notes to refer to...but that's not my style. That doesn't work for me.

My style is to sit down, open up my word processor and then to start plugging along on chapter one and make something interesting happen. Then chapter two builds on chapter one. Then chapter three...you see where I'm going with this. That's pretty much how I plan - write the first draft then start editing.

But I'm pretty pumped for NaNo this year. Got some great ideas, some of which I will steal from the really long thing that I wrote down below. There will be an epic journey, larger than life characters, the forces of darkness, superheroes, supervillains and - most importantly - cybernetic dinosaurs.

How could I not be excited about that?!