May 2008
17 posts
Word Count .
776 action packed words.
Plus 142 loved up ones.
Word Count.
a big fat zero…
Word Count
274…
Boo!
I’m a bit stuck, bit hungover, bit tired…
The Ending.
I now have the ending to my series of interconnected stories. There will be a running story in the background of all the stories; on the news, on the television. The characters will be aware of it and discuss it. Then the gun which has to be fired will resolve itself by meeting head on with the running story. The two constants; the gun and the killer will colidet to end the story.
Word Count
612 in the morning.
Editing in the afternoon and any additions.
Word Count
A tortuous 440.
Having second thoughts about the series of linked but interdependent stories.
The story seems to be asking the other characters to come back and interweave into a larger narrative.
A third story line - a policeman, maybe? - needs to be introduced.
“We need to find the time to daydream and be bored, and to see that, too, as a...”
– Psychologist and author Adam Phillps on coping with our ever accelerating society.
Song of the Week
The Gutter Twins - The Body
Word Count
Done my morning 500 - 569 to be precise.
Now its all gravy.
Onto the second chapter; Raul, Francis and Annie.
“Today I thought that maybe my writing might be like window dressing (that is a...”
Word Count
551
Got to the denoumount, the twist.
At the moment it’s a cliffhanger, as I now have two endings.
1) Something shocking and violent, but perhaps predictable, or
2) Something unpredictable (in light of Chekhov’s gun at the beginning) and interesting storywise.
This is the first chapter of the story of a gun and all its travels looking to get fired.
Girl Talk - Rotoscoped
Word Count
1500.
Taking shape: The story of a gun that never gets fired.
The reverse of Chekhov’s gun.
Giving up drinking; the slow pegging back of all lifes pleasures until there is only yourself, there, bored, in the centre.
Song of the Week
Ameiina - Sogg