Manifesto Of The Point In Writing

Monday, December 19th, 2005 @ 21:10

I’m bouncing off a comment I posted earlier on, itself triggered by several posts I had read on the NaNoWriMo forums. At times, some people would ask “what did your family/friends said when you announced you were going to write a novel in one month?”. And at times, some people would answer that they got told “what’s the point of writing a novel if you’re not going to publish it?”.

Perhaps this is why there can be such a rift between authors and non-authors, artists and non-artists. As odd as it can seem to me, who love what I do both as a hobby and in the hopes of taking it onto a professional path, there are people who don’t see the point of writing just for the sake of writing.

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I Love This Blog, It’s Making Me Write

Saturday, December 17th, 2005 @ 22:17

You know, I wonder if, without this blog and without posting entries about this journey into writing, I’d get as much done.

I know I’m a whiner, up to a certain extent. I often think too much, wonder about too many things, and “whine” about them here, because as always, writing helps me to understand my feelings better, and to define what exactly is wrong. It’s somewhat efficient, but not always. After all, if I throw my words in a well, I don’t get any feedback, and it’s easy for me to forget about it, or rather, to pretend to forget.

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FYI: Yzabel.Net

Thursday, December 15th, 2005 @ 22:23

A few months ago, I gave in and got a domain name with, well, my pen name in it, and found myself facing the following problem: what to do when you have a brand new Yzabel.net to deal with, but nothing to put on it? Granted, this webspace has been put to use for more than only a handful of pages (I direct other domain names to these, is all), but it was the entrance one, the index.html, that I didn’t know what to do about. I contemplated migrating my illustrations site, but what for? Paradygma does very well where it is now. A writing site, maybe? Sure, but what to put on it? I can’t afford to give away first print rights on everything I write, and if it’s to publish a couple short stories only, it’s not really worth it.

Thus, for anyone who’d be interested, Yzabel.net will, for the time being, feature announcements regarding my available blogs, websites, updates, and the likes (yes, including Paradygma). I figured out it might be easy enough to keep everything in one place this way.

You can start stalking me now.

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Dilemma of Writing

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005 @ 22:29

From www.gamerselite.org What is the best method when dealing with an inspiration overload? Yes, mine is not over yet (somehow, I hope it never dries out, because too much is always better than not enough when it comes to ideas), and I’m torn between the two main choices that I see lying in front of me.

One of the roads leads to dropping the novel I’m finishing these days, to jump to another idea, fulfill my desire to write that one, then come back to the previous novel—with the risk of this taking weeks or even months.

The other road goes through forcing myself through finishing the work in progress first, even though this may feel very painful and end up in written crap just for the sake of “getting rid of it until the moment to edit comes”.

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Misunderstandings Or Real Attacks?

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 @ 22:34

I’m pondering this matter today, after having considered a discussion I’ve had (well, started, too) on a forum in the past few days.

The thread itself turned out in an unexpected way. I was ready to wake up to a flood of insults and to an angry mob flaming me for my “evil” views (which all readers here know of: I don’t want children, and am tired of seeing certain people trying to persuade me into it); instead, I discovered that a place I thought ridden with angst and immaturity was in fact also home to a good deal of sensible people respecting others’ opinions.

Save for one.

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