still alive and kicking …
July 7th, 2003Hey, I’m still here.
One of the problems with a public journal, is that there may well be interesting news, worth writing about … but, far too personal to include in a public forum. Therefore, the stuff that does get written is on the “tame” side … books I’m reading, movie’s I’m watching, a few notes about work … nothing overly exciting!
I think one way to make it more interesting, and keep my private life private, is to use the journal to add to a work of fiction. That gives me good motivation to write everyday, the content should be (slightly) more interesting then a day-2-day rant on minutae … and I’ll have something for my efforts when I’m done.
By the way, I finally finished the book, The Power of Full Engagement and have started Harry Potter, The Order of the Phoenix.
I’ve found that the easiest way to start any story is to being describing characters. In the act of describing even a single character, the interaction with other characters introduces them into the story. Then, you have to describe places where these interactions take place, and organizations, and something about the world they live in, and the world’s history, and the character’s history. I’m not kidding, start with a single character description and before you know it there are more ideas then you can write and they are comming at you faster then you can type.
