First Victory!

So it would appear this blog is actually having an effect. I wasn't getting much (read: anything) done throughout the course of the night in terms of writing, but the more I thought about writing this entry before going to bed the more I hated the idea of saying for a third time that I'd gotten no writing done. This would be, it seems, the first victory of my blog to help me continue my writing.

I didn't get a tremendous amount of writing done, of course. However what little I did get done is I believe fairly good, something I'm not often eager to say about my own work. Most of my work to date has been fairly action-oriented, and I've gotten to the point where describing activities and events in the physical form is rather easy. Describing conversations however, coming up with what characters say and do when there's no major action going on...that's something I have woefully neglected and I hate myself for it. So I am forcing myself to do exactly that. Conversations in which nothing actually happens. Even emotional moments in which characters exchange or express feelings without any real (or very many) words. This shit is hard.

I did it, though, I got a good moment down between two characters. It involves few words, a much more established exchange of emotion than I've worked with in the past, and I am actually moderately pleased with it.

Although my writing certainly hasn't been hurt by the fact that I've been bruising my eardrums with Oomph! songs all night long. Fuck I love this band.