Writing

Tried a different way of writing a story yesterday. I've had this story on the go for a few weeks but nothing much was happening. So taking advice from Tess Gerritsen (not personally I read her blog) I decided to not worrying about writing in a linear way, just get it all down and then work on it later. I normally write very tidily A to B and then fine tune a little bit. Tess's way is much more fun , I wrote key scenes, character studies- the time flew. I'm in the rare position of writing more than I will probably use. I've nearly got the bare bones of the completed story. Its odd but I was a bit scared of trying something different, now I wish I did it ages ago. The Open University will be offering a stage 3 creative writing course next year that I want to do. If any of you enjoy writing and want to take it further I do recommend the OU courses.

Last night Christopher Eccleston leaned over to me and whispered 'Take me to paradise' And I woke up. Even in my dreams I'm faithful.

Friday

Horrendous day at work. Blummin awful. On the plus side got lots of compliments on my hair - I don't care if I had to solicit them ("Do you like my hair?" "Yes")
I'm working on a short story to submit to Hackwriters. Did the first draft in the third person, but I find writing in the third person really hard. Trying not to used "she" or their name. It all gets a bit muddled. I think I'll rewrite it in the first person. I'm really rubbish at thinking up names as well. For one of my OU stories I used the dogs' names, it was quite funny reading Ashley's critique of Tom and Penny.