Writer Problems
The countdown begins until I leave for my internships at Walt Disney World. I'm pretty stoked about it, not gonna lie. I haven't even begun to start packing, which I probably should. I just got my email this morning about registering for apartments and picking roommates, and I've been trying to figure all that out. It got me thinking about how different the next five months will be. When am I going to find the time to write? Obviously, I can't just up and stop. Not only is it an addicting habit, it's also my job.
I was going over things I need to bring in my mind: my DSLR, my guitar... and then I realized something kind of distressing. How the heck am I going to take my story boards? I picked up this neat idea from Ally Carter-- she storyboards with sticky notes. I never thought about doing that. I've always kept thought journals, which are usually pretty messy (not that my storyboards aren't a work of art in themselves). The storyboards help me take all the puzzle pieces I found and put them all together. It keeps my brain organized. I can't just up and pull them off the wall-- it might mess up their order. This is a pretty big problem. I'm working on book 2 in Legends of Illdueh, and the third installment is brewing along with several side projects. If I don't storyboard everything, I lose my thought process-- my version of Sherlock's mind palace, I suppose.
The next few months are going to be tough, trying to balance an almost full time job with writing. My hope is that someday my writing does well enough I won't need a secondary job. Writing, for the most part, is full time. There's travel and research, storyboarding, and then the actual writing bit. It's not easy, and trying to be concise in the midst of another job sometimes causes it to suffer. I'm still recovering from taking Journalism classes, which forced me to write less creatively and more objectively-- I despised it. Still do. It killed my workflow.
I suppose the long story short is I'm freaking out about getting my novel done properly and not growing lazy. Better work hard to avoid that....
...maybe a pinboard with my sticky notes on it? That could work for travel...
I was going over things I need to bring in my mind: my DSLR, my guitar... and then I realized something kind of distressing. How the heck am I going to take my story boards? I picked up this neat idea from Ally Carter-- she storyboards with sticky notes. I never thought about doing that. I've always kept thought journals, which are usually pretty messy (not that my storyboards aren't a work of art in themselves). The storyboards help me take all the puzzle pieces I found and put them all together. It keeps my brain organized. I can't just up and pull them off the wall-- it might mess up their order. This is a pretty big problem. I'm working on book 2 in Legends of Illdueh, and the third installment is brewing along with several side projects. If I don't storyboard everything, I lose my thought process-- my version of Sherlock's mind palace, I suppose.
The next few months are going to be tough, trying to balance an almost full time job with writing. My hope is that someday my writing does well enough I won't need a secondary job. Writing, for the most part, is full time. There's travel and research, storyboarding, and then the actual writing bit. It's not easy, and trying to be concise in the midst of another job sometimes causes it to suffer. I'm still recovering from taking Journalism classes, which forced me to write less creatively and more objectively-- I despised it. Still do. It killed my workflow.
I suppose the long story short is I'm freaking out about getting my novel done properly and not growing lazy. Better work hard to avoid that....
...maybe a pinboard with my sticky notes on it? That could work for travel...
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