I feel like my creativity has been sucked out of my brain through my stomach. It no longer exists where I can find it, which is depressing. How am I supposed to write my world famous novel if I can't even bother to put pen to paper? It's been...months. It seems like forever.
Besides that, I have a stack of 24lb linen paper that I thought would be awesome for my penpals, but I misunderstood and it's flimsy and gross. Surely not stationery. And so, I'm creating a challenge for myself. I want to write a 50 page short story. I don't even know if that's short anymore, but I'll do it. I just haven't decided if I'll use both sides of the paper. I probably can't because it's flimsy and gross, but I'll just have to see.
But I don't know what to write about. :(
4 comments:
If you figure 250 words per page, then you are looking at 12,500 words. I think that puts you solidly above the short story range (~ 1,000 - 7,500 words).
So, you'd be in the novellette range (~ 7,500 - 20,000 words) most likely.
Its strange that 24lb paper is flimsy, as usually the pound rating is a designation of how heavy a ream (500 pages) is. Normal copy paper is around 20lb and the onionskin I have used is 8lb and flimsy. I guess linen is just really heavy...
You need to do something to relax and stop thinking of how much time has gone in between writings. I am not a writer but sometimes you just got to give it some time and the creativity will come.
deek - I have no idea what's up with my paper. I figure I just got lied to on ebay, or linen IS really heavy. But I doubt it.
I should add in the title, "a novellette." It sounds so pretty!
Mommyandchloe! - you're totally right, but the worst part is I've pretty much been relaxing all month. I haven't done a single thing, but nothing inspires me anymore. Even though I came up with a title, I can't even think of starting it.
My daughter is a new writer and I tell her to think of things that have happened in her life and make them into stories. Isn't that the best way to make the storie great.
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