So NaNoEdiMo has been slowing down lately, not for lack of interest or importance, but for more pressing assignments. I recently discovered that the short story I was writing for Fiction class is actually a novel, and I’m knee deep in a full length play for playwriting that’s quite complicated. However. I’m still making progress. So that’s good.
We’re nearing the last week of this experiment, and I think the pattern I’ve fallen into will continue into the rest of the year. I really like the act of going to a coffee shop after class and just writing for a couple hours before going back to my room. It just seems natural, and it’s not like I do stuff during that period of time anyways.
But back to the actual writing I’m doing. Eugenia is taking shape, finally, and although I feel like there are still things I’m leaving out, I’ve got a few friends that have offered to read and edit it for me, so that should be good. As well as my individual edits are going, it’s always better to get outside opinions.
However, because I like to stress myself out, I’m really starting to get intrigued with Super, my fiction class accidental novel about superheroes, and Holding, my playwriting class full length play depicting an interrogation room love story. Super is just really fun, because it’s the most overtly humorous and satirical piece of writing I’ve ever done, and that’s really new for me. You guys should know; I’m a tad too fond of torture scenes and sadness, and Super is a nice change.
Holding is another story altogether, though. It’s an incredibly ambitious concept, and it’s both terrifying and exciting. The entire play takes place in two interrogation rooms, one at a police station and another in a warehouse, and the play switches back and forth between these two places without the audience fully knowing which scene comes chronologically first. It’s a play that’s (hopefully, if I can pull it off) about love and expectations and bank robberies, and although it freaks me out, I am in love with the concept and I really hope it works out.
So I’ve got a lot of projects to juggle, in addition to all the other stuff I have to do for my other classes and for my life in general. I thought I was busy before? Hah. HAH.
Well, I really just wanted to check in with ya’ll, since I’m waiting for my Fiction professor to finish talking to another student so we can discuss my accidental novel start. That should be fun. See you Thursday for the Thanksgiving with Gandalf episode!
