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Nov. 25th, 2007 02:08 amThe post-holiday blahs are upon us. Or, rather, they were upon me for most of Friday until I snapped out of it with an injection of fangirl straight into my veins. I blame it all on Thanksgiving recuperation and finishing The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. It's a great book but boy is it depressing. Sammy Clay pretty much tore my heart out. I might have over-identified just a tad.
Ahem, but it did start me thinking about my own Great American Novel again. I have most of it worked out, the setting, the characters, the emotional arcs, the journeys. The only problem is that I don't have a plot. There's no reason for the characters to leave point A and end up at point Zed. Though maybe I don't need a reason. Maybe the journey is the whole point. Maybe the fact that, in the end, there is no earth-shattering reason for anything is the plot. That life is enough.
Holy crap. Just, holy crap. Sometimes a dream is just a dream. And maybe I'll actually have something to show for this epiphany in a decade or whenever I have the time to sit down and write it. It's funny, I used to never think that I would ever have the patience to be a writer and now it's all I want to do.
BTW, I'm at that point where it feels like law school is never going to end. I have so many story ideas bouncing around in my head, both fic and non-fic alike, and it never seems like I have half of a chance to sit down and do anything about them. It's most frustrating.
However, there are many things that are not at all frustrating and my friends are amongst them. My dearly beloved birthday twin!Erin has tagged me to do the Seven Random Facts meme and I am nothing if not her's to command.
( Seven More Things You Never Needed to Know About Me )
You know, I should probably go to bed. This whole staying up till 3 in the morning thing has got to end.
Ahem, but it did start me thinking about my own Great American Novel again. I have most of it worked out, the setting, the characters, the emotional arcs, the journeys. The only problem is that I don't have a plot. There's no reason for the characters to leave point A and end up at point Zed. Though maybe I don't need a reason. Maybe the journey is the whole point. Maybe the fact that, in the end, there is no earth-shattering reason for anything is the plot. That life is enough.
Holy crap. Just, holy crap. Sometimes a dream is just a dream. And maybe I'll actually have something to show for this epiphany in a decade or whenever I have the time to sit down and write it. It's funny, I used to never think that I would ever have the patience to be a writer and now it's all I want to do.
BTW, I'm at that point where it feels like law school is never going to end. I have so many story ideas bouncing around in my head, both fic and non-fic alike, and it never seems like I have half of a chance to sit down and do anything about them. It's most frustrating.
However, there are many things that are not at all frustrating and my friends are amongst them. My dearly beloved birthday twin!Erin has tagged me to do the Seven Random Facts meme and I am nothing if not her's to command.
( Seven More Things You Never Needed to Know About Me )
You know, I should probably go to bed. This whole staying up till 3 in the morning thing has got to end.
