Let's try that again

[rolanni]

What's up with I-Google, anyway? I had -- still have, actually -- the Japanese Fox theme, except I can't see most of it now. I dumped my cache and history, as suggested, but -- still no joy. *Is sad* The fox made me smile.

Because of various problems of voice and timing and stage-setting, I have scrapped my first bold foray into Ghost Ship, shedding whiskers, kittens and spaceships; and set the word count back to Zero. From Zero, then, we venture forward once more. Cautiously. And carrying a Big Stick.

Progress on Ghost Ship

1497 / 100000

Comments

[shana.livejournal.com]

The kittens protest. They weren't done with ... ooh, string!

[berneynator.livejournal.com]

I am sorry you're having troubles with Ghost Ship and wish you better luck on this new venture!

i google

[(Anonymous)]

I had the fox for years, and yes, he made me happy. Sigh.

Much luck with Ghost Ship- wait, not luck, you are a professional.
Well, good hunting then.

Nanette

[mardott.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Starting over on Ghost Ship sounds heartrending. I bow to your professionalism - both in realizing it needed to be done, and in being able to do it. Good luck with that big stick.

My i-google seems to be behaving at the moment, so no clue what the problem would be for your fox. I have Misty Morning, and I luvs it much. So peaceful.

Master-Level Storytellers

[(Anonymous)]

I believe the wonder, and the terror, of writing "speculative fiction" of the highest order really centers around the fact that story staging/setup in your imagination, where such thought experiments occur, can actually get much messier than in the mundane "real" world. Fortunately, relevant world clocks can feasibly be reset to zero when the need is great enough. I suspect the need to persevere and manage such situations adeptly is why so many lesser authors are constrained to less adventurous genres, especially non-fiction. That's why they, unlike you two, are not "Storytellers" in the most extensive connotations of that rare and wondrous title. Creation is surely the persistent application of your will to shape and order the threads of situations in which you place your oft rambunctious characters to tell this next tale.

[rose-07.livejournal.com]

So, do you delete? or save what you have written under a different filename?

...and I just realised that all the Liaden cats, that I can recall with perhaps the exception of Coyster, are adult cats - brim full of wisdom and catitude. Why no kittens? Surely they could create some wonderful 'complexities' in a story?

Rose

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Oh, not this isn't trouble. This is just flailing around looking for the right lead. Business as usual.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Starting over on Ghost Ship sounds heartrending

At 3,220 words -- not heartrending. Annoying, yes. You'd think I'd know how to start a book by now.

"Heartrending" is being 50 grand or more into a novel and realizing that a story-peg you set 'way back in Chapter Two has collapsed under the weight of the narrative and you now have to clear the rubble and see what can be salvaged.

Re: Master-Level Storytellers

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I think that all genres have their unique challenges; but the need to get it all straight in your head is something common to all writers.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

So, do you delete?

Good Ghod, no. I just tuck them away; you never know when they might come in handy. It happened just recently that something we cut from one book went into another neat as if it had been cut to fit.

Why no kittens?

Possible auctorial bias: we usually adopt adolescent or adult cats. Possible second auctorial bias: one way to show a continuing domestic relationship is to have an established routine/pet in evidence. A kitten would signal that the relationship is new. A middle-aged, contented, cat shows that the arrangement has been in force for some time.

[timepiece]

If you use Gmail, it *also* has a fox theme, with different pictures. This set is from the other side of the house (I am unsure if the lake would be the front or back, but this is the non-lake side).

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Right, the inner garden, I think it is. I am very fond of it, as well, but. . . I still miss the action at the front of the house.

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

And if both kittens and adult cats are in evidence?

Doc