A Quick Note Before I Head Out
Mar. 21st, 2023 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse Last night's class was one of the best I've had so far. Whatever ice was left to break finally did and we had the kind of freeform, cooperative overlapping discussion that I usually achieve WAY earlier than session 8 of 12. But, I'll take it.
I'm not sure what made everything snap into place. Maybe it was the subject (the dreaded middle,) the pre-class discussion about the business of writing, or my own admission that I don't always know what to do with middles, myself, since I'm currently stuck in one, but I sure hope that the magic stays with me. Today I'm headed down, in-person, to a student's afterschool/late day program (starts at 3:15) to talk to a bunch of GLBTQIA+ students about being queer and being an author. We might try to do some writing exercise around fan fiction, but I currently have nothing planned and I need to leave in an hour.
I mean, I've had a lot of time to think about this? But, I'm also not getting paid so my feeling is, "Meh, we'll see what occurs to me on the spot?" Which is probably dangerous, but, again, the only person I will truly disappoint if I am a failure is my Loft student. (Which maybe sounds morose? But I find this attitude to be very freeing? Like, if I don't worry about sucking, I tend to actually perform very well under pressure? Of course, maybe I just jinxed myself by making this meta/thinking about how it works out loud? I guess we'll see.)
The other news is that Shawn is reading my lesbians in space novel (which is stuck in the dreaded middle and has been for a long time) and she's already given me some great advice. I was able to write a couple hundred words on it today already and, more importantly, the writing feels... natural? Comfy? The way it's supposed to.
So, that's also nice.
Now, if only I could get back into writing my own fan fic, too, things would be golden. I've left poor Ichigo and Aizen hanging for some time. Byakuya and Renji have been languishing for years.
I'm not sure what made everything snap into place. Maybe it was the subject (the dreaded middle,) the pre-class discussion about the business of writing, or my own admission that I don't always know what to do with middles, myself, since I'm currently stuck in one, but I sure hope that the magic stays with me. Today I'm headed down, in-person, to a student's afterschool/late day program (starts at 3:15) to talk to a bunch of GLBTQIA+ students about being queer and being an author. We might try to do some writing exercise around fan fiction, but I currently have nothing planned and I need to leave in an hour.
I mean, I've had a lot of time to think about this? But, I'm also not getting paid so my feeling is, "Meh, we'll see what occurs to me on the spot?" Which is probably dangerous, but, again, the only person I will truly disappoint if I am a failure is my Loft student. (Which maybe sounds morose? But I find this attitude to be very freeing? Like, if I don't worry about sucking, I tend to actually perform very well under pressure? Of course, maybe I just jinxed myself by making this meta/thinking about how it works out loud? I guess we'll see.)
The other news is that Shawn is reading my lesbians in space novel (which is stuck in the dreaded middle and has been for a long time) and she's already given me some great advice. I was able to write a couple hundred words on it today already and, more importantly, the writing feels... natural? Comfy? The way it's supposed to.
So, that's also nice.
Now, if only I could get back into writing my own fan fic, too, things would be golden. I've left poor Ichigo and Aizen hanging for some time. Byakuya and Renji have been languishing for years.
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Date: 2023-03-21 09:10 pm (UTC)