I actually kinda do shoot everything in front of me..

So it's been a while since I produced anything. Partly because it's not easy to produce quickly when you're as busy as I've been and partly 'cause I don't have anything to write right now. Anyway, I'm not viciously popular anyway and my number one fan (*Forsaken2544) is gone. That's actually really sad. Josh and I have been friends since we were in middle school and I've really enjoyed having him around to talk to so often over the last couple years. It's going to be really stinky to not have him around bugging me to edit his shit.

Anyway, this is a promise that you'll have the Iago "chapter II" edit up in no time and that I'll be writing some more.

Hope all y'all are having a happy Jul and all that. I'm in the Netherlands with my sister and her family so it's pretty freakin' cool. My parents will be flying over for New Years and it'll be the first time that I've had Christmas with my sister since.. shit.. I don't even remember probably since I was 15. So 10 years or so. It'll be great.

Yeah.. so.. god Jul, gott nytt år and all that jazz.
/Phil

So here's what I need help with and it's a doozy.

OK, so..: I have ideas for a story. I have a plot arc, I have a few ideas for scenes in between and a general direction.. I have NO clue how to connect the dots. How do I approach this? What's the best way to actually pull that off?

Ok.. so I'm getting the feeling that I should explain my purpose here.

I joined deviantART because my friend *Forsaken2544 has been on here for goddamn ever and has been bugging me and sending me stupid pictures I can't look at because of the bleeding content filter. I'm not much of a writer, really. I mean, I've always thought it would be "neat" to be a writer, but there is a very pragmatic side to me that (when I go there) says "... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Ok, that's a rough paraphrasing, but you get the idea.

The thing is that I don't think I'm a bad writer, per se, it's more that I'm a bad "plotter." I don't have the 'creative drive' to come up with plot-lines that really entrance the mind. When I *do* finally come up with a good plot-line (plot line? plotline?) I usually am not sure how to execute it. Also, I think that fantasy writing is hit or miss, really. In fact, often times I think that fantasy fiction is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to writing. Until recently, when I read George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (speaking of which, according to [link] A Dance with Dragons comes out on April 7th, but Mr. Martin hasn't announced anything on his website yet), I had pretty much written off the entire genre as being made up of talentless hacks who couldn't write a novel for an adult if their life depended on it.

But lately between Josh and Shaun and myself we've been building a little writing group and I find that really fun and unique. It makes me really want to write for the first time in years. I want to piece things together, if for no other reason.. well.. the challenge of it. But at the same time, while I enjoy writing, I don't write for me.. I write for other people. I want to be read which brings us back to the scathing, pragmatic voice in the back of my head.

So how does one DO that? And how does one become a writing scab in Hollywood? Those are the operative questions, today.

It's like they expect you to have a fucking plot or something...

So, the worst part about writing is writers block. It's not only frustrating, but it's a little disheartening. It's like this.. you have an idea of where you want to go but that open gap between here and there is fillable by nothing in your head.

So I write stupid journals and I chat in Swedish and I think about all the ways that I can go forward with this story but the next logical step is still missing. I don't know that I can write this non-chronologically, either.

So it appears that the quite noble and intelligent *Forsaken2544 and I shall go in together on a combo piece about Iago and Torea. I don't want to say too much, but let's just say the proto-dialogue that we talked about made me laugh pretty hard. It should be good. Sort of like a fantasy version of the odd couple.

So far 4 people have looked at my profile! I'm goddamn popular.

This thing isn't letting me insert my sig..

Hi everyone! (THAT MEANS YOU !)

So, I guess I'm making the step into deviantART even though I'm not terribly deviant or anything. I'm going to try to update this stuff fairly regularly but who knows how frequently I'll be writing. I hope to be doing some serious writing because I've been enjoying doing it lately quite a bit.

Anyway, I've got two stories up already. First is a very old story from a shared world with my very good friend *Forsaken2544. In fact, he and I write in the same world when we write fantasy stuff and will definitely team write in the future.

The second story I started for NaNoWriMo but I just haven't had the time. Anyway, I'd like real critiques and.. well.. compliments are fun, too!

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