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[erastes]

Sometimes I love writing. Sometimes I hate it of course. Some days I struggle to get as high as 300 words. Some days I sit and glower at the screen like Beethoven blaming the screen for my deafness. Some day I play Bejewelled all day going "La La La If I don't think about writing then I don't have to do it!"

Not today though! Today I rock. I am the Monster Of Rockness.

2000 words in 2 days. For me - that's HUGE! Once I get to the end of this chapter though, I'm sure I'll be back in Denial and unable to move along.

I would give you a snippet, but cuts don't work at work. But there is young man adoration. Naked. Young. Man. Adoration.

BTW - SANDMAN - Gaiman. Which is the first one? I'm ordering stuff from the library and it doesn't say. Useless.

Comments

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Preludes & Nocturnes is the first one. It's good, but they get better progressively.

[rwday.livejournal.com]

Good job with the writing!

Order for Sandman - excuse the caps shouting - I pulled it off a website.

1. PRELUDES AND NOCTURNES -- #1-8 (story arc called "More than Rubies")
2. THE DOLL'S HOUSE -- #8-16 (since 1999, new editions of this
collection omit #8, "The Sound of Her Wings")
3. DREAM COUNTRY -- #17-20
4. SEASON OF MISTS -- #21-28
5. A GAME OF YOU -- #32-37
6. FABLES AND REFLECTIONS -- #29-31 and 50 ["Distant Mirrors"], #38-40
7. BRIEF LIVES -- #41-49
8. WORLDS' END -- #51-56
9. THE KINDLY ONES -- #57-69 and "The Castle" from Vertigo Jam
10. THE WAKE -- #70-75

[irana.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I love writing. Sometimes I hate it of course. Some days I struggle to get as high as 300 words. Some days I sit and glower at the screen like Beethoven blaming the screen for my deafness. Some day I play Bejewelled all day going "La La La If I don't think about writing then I don't have to do it!"

OMG I'm so glad I'm not the only one like that. I've managed a great whopping 452 words today before I decided just to edit stuff and have done. Congrats on the word count love!

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

Have you read any other Gaiman???? If not, it's worth trying his novels too. I'm getting very addicted to his writing.

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

I actually read Sandman totally out of order and wasn't ever that confused. I agree they progressively get better, but Preludes and Nocturnes is pretty good.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I've read

Good Omens. (started well, bit of a damp squib towards the end)

Stardust (bored me rigid will be avoiding the film)

Neverwhere (which i really liked)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Luckily the library has them all (if not in my stupid (size of a drive through) branch) so I have to pay to order them, but I'm looking forward to it.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you hunny bunny!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think it's because I've been running this scene through my head so often that I already know the mechanics of it, and my fingers are free to extemporise around the action with description and stuff.

Note to self: Do this more often.

:)

Well done with yours too. 452 is decent enough, specially added in with editing.

[liebesdammerung.livejournal.com]

We are like writing twins. I can't write more than 100 words a day, usually. :/

[erastes.livejournal.com]

now that would be scary - if I knew a book was going to take 3 years... of course, Transgressions DID, but I blame the discovery of LiveJournal and RPG for that! I don't want Junction X to have taken 3 years... I'm not as young as I used to be!!!

[annowre.livejournal.com]

2000 words in 2 days? I'm in awe of you. Why can't I write like that?...Perhaps I shall have to sacrifice a goat to your awesomeness. (Or maybe not a goat? Will a timtam do?) :)

x

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

But there is young man adoration. Naked. Young. Man. Adoration.

I like the sound of that.

Also, I'm so glad it's not me going, "lalala, if I don't think about writing etc".

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's rare. Believe me. I think it's because I have been visualising this scene for weeks and weeks and so I just know it well enough to romp away with it.

Goat please. You can't have a timtam curry.

:)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm very good at focussing on something that completely is non productive....

:)