Comments on: No Words Tonight http://hollylisle.com/no-words-tonight-2/ read with hunger, write with joy, live with passion Thu, 24 May 2012 02:55:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Megs http://hollylisle.com/no-words-tonight-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16574 Megs Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:32:09 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5253#comment-16574 644 words. Salorý wakes to serious nausea, no memories, and a man she doesn't trust telling her she's home now. I'm finally really able to get into the book with this piece and it segues nicely from my opening. 644 words. Salorý wakes to serious nausea, no memories, and a man she doesn’t trust telling her she’s home now. I’m finally really able to get into the book with this piece and it segues nicely from my opening.

]]> By: Ame http://hollylisle.com/no-words-tonight-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16573 Ame Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:04:07 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5253#comment-16573 710 words and romance is in the air with terribly bad timing. 710 words and romance is in the air with terribly bad timing.

]]> By: The Pencil Neck http://hollylisle.com/no-words-tonight-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16572 The Pencil Neck Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:18:52 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5253#comment-16572 959 words. The Princess wakes up and goes outside and promptly gets accosted by a filthy toddler. The Princess finds the mother of the child and they talk. The mother, seeing only a beaten-up girl, tries to see if the Princess has any money and when she finds out she doesn't, she suggests they turn tricks together... some of the spacers like their women bruised. The Princess is sickened and horrified and starts to cry and feel sorry for herself but realizes that she needs to think of a course of action or something. I meant to write more last night but I went to the Monday Night Football game and my team lost. :( It doesn't sound like much but this is the incident that really pushes the Princess on the way to fighting back and on the way to maturing into the woman she's going to need to be. I also realized that I didn't have a clear image of the station they're in. I hadn't expected them to spend this much time here. So while flying down to Houston, I really thought about the setting and this scene reflects those thoughts. 959 words.

The Princess wakes up and goes outside and promptly gets accosted by a filthy toddler. The Princess finds the mother of the child and they talk. The mother, seeing only a beaten-up girl, tries to see if the Princess has any money and when she finds out she doesn’t, she suggests they turn tricks together… some of the spacers like their women bruised. The Princess is sickened and horrified and starts to cry and feel sorry for herself but realizes that she needs to think of a course of action or something.

I meant to write more last night but I went to the Monday Night Football game and my team lost. :( It doesn’t sound like much but this is the incident that really pushes the Princess on the way to fighting back and on the way to maturing into the woman she’s going to need to be.

I also realized that I didn’t have a clear image of the station they’re in. I hadn’t expected them to spend this much time here. So while flying down to Houston, I really thought about the setting and this scene reflects those thoughts.

]]> By: DasteRoad http://hollylisle.com/no-words-tonight-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16571 DasteRoad Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:13:10 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5253#comment-16571 I think we all do that at various degrees :) Our own life experience and emotions are one of the most precious things we have as writers. Though I have to say that I've only been able to do this successfully *without* meaning to: all the times that I've written from my own experiences as a way to make me feel better about myself, my writing ended up horribly corny and judgemental. I suppose that was because my emotions were very recent and my wounds still open, and in an attempt to feel better, I wrote to tell myself not the honest truth, but only what I wanted to hear. I've stopped doing that, and I've started to know myself much better, in a way that I think has made me grow both as a person and as a writer :) What else can I say? DasteRoad here, Italian, 28 and female. Welcome on board! I think we all do that at various degrees :)
Our own life experience and emotions are one of the most precious things we have as writers. Though I have to say that I’ve only been able to do this successfully *without* meaning to: all the times that I’ve written from my own experiences as a way to make me feel better about myself, my writing ended up horribly corny and judgemental. I suppose that was because my emotions were very recent and my wounds still open, and in an attempt to feel better, I wrote to tell myself not the honest truth, but only what I wanted to hear. I’ve stopped doing that, and I’ve started to know myself much better, in a way that I think has made me grow both as a person and as a writer :)

What else can I say? DasteRoad here, Italian, 28 and female. Welcome on board!

]]> By: DasteRoad http://hollylisle.com/no-words-tonight-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16570 DasteRoad Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:03:36 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5253#comment-16570 Aw now, come on, don't hate yourself! That's a bad habit that won't get you anywhere ;) I do not munch during writing: I've found that if I have the idea to go get something to eat it's actually my brain looking for a quick distraction so it can fall back into idle mode and NOT do its job (which would be, putting words on the screen through my fingers). That's because munching keeps my hands busy, easily distracting and interrupting whatever train of thought I'm following. I often drink while writing, though: warm tea, fruit and herb infusions/decoctions, hot milk and cocoa in the winter; in the summer instead I drink a lot of iced tea, lemonade, fruit juice in general and mint-flavoured drinks I prepare myself (nothing fancy though: I just mix cold water and mint syrup :)). Aw now, come on, don’t hate yourself! That’s a bad habit that won’t get you anywhere ;)
I do not munch during writing: I’ve found that if I have the idea to go get something to eat it’s actually my brain looking for a quick distraction so it can fall back into idle mode and NOT do its job (which would be, putting words on the screen through my fingers). That’s because munching keeps my hands busy, easily distracting and interrupting whatever train of thought I’m following.
I often drink while writing, though: warm tea, fruit and herb infusions/decoctions, hot milk and cocoa in the winter; in the summer instead I drink a lot of iced tea, lemonade, fruit juice in general and mint-flavoured drinks I prepare myself (nothing fancy though: I just mix cold water and mint syrup :) ).

]]> By: DasteRoad http://hollylisle.com/no-words-tonight-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16569 DasteRoad Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:47:43 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5253#comment-16569 Congrats on tackling on your new project! I know how hard it can be to let go off old roots. Best of luck with Memoir! :) Congrats on tackling on your new project! I know how hard it can be to let go off old roots. Best of luck with Memoir! :)

]]> By: Leigh http://hollylisle.com/no-words-tonight-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16568 Leigh Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:15:50 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5253#comment-16568 Zero words today. ZERO. Although yesterday I cranked out 5,000. I am still hating myself for not making Nano. Out of curiosity... what foods if any do you guys munch on while writing? Zero words today. ZERO. Although yesterday I cranked out 5,000. I am still hating myself for not making Nano.

Out of curiosity… what foods if any do you guys munch on while writing?

]]> By: Jessica http://hollylisle.com/no-words-tonight-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16567 Jessica Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:30:17 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5253#comment-16567 After a bad breakup with a boyfriend I vented on paper and came up with an 80K story with him as the "hero" who actually isn't. He was supposed to die in the final battle, leaving the scorned female MC with the last laugh - only I never wrote the ending. I met someone else... and married him. :) It's great to take life experience and twist it into a scene though, very self-satisfying. And makes it feel like it happened for a reason. After a bad breakup with a boyfriend I vented on paper and came up with an 80K story with him as the “hero” who actually isn’t. He was supposed to die in the final battle, leaving the scorned female MC with the last laugh – only I never wrote the ending. I met someone else… and married him. :)

It’s great to take life experience and twist it into a scene though, very self-satisfying. And makes it feel like it happened for a reason.

]]> By: Nancy http://hollylisle.com/no-words-tonight-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16566 Nancy Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:23:59 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5253#comment-16566 Congrats on your Nano win! Talk about crazy word counts! Way to go! Congrats on your Nano win! Talk about crazy word counts! Way to go!

]]> By: Nancy http://hollylisle.com/no-words-tonight-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16565 Nancy Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:21:51 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5253#comment-16565 Hope you feel better soon! Hope you feel better soon!

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