Would it help to give yourself permission to do a sucky first draft, and take out your perfectionism in revisions? Or is that where you get stalled?
Would help if I actually believed the permission *sigh* As it is that's often where I get stalled. Working on it though.
What's the novel about, or shouldn't I ask? :)
It's really hard to give a short answer to that question. It's about Skye. The sea always so close and vital. Music and what it can mean to us. Musicians, and how insane and funny they can be. Love and what we'll do for it, give up for it. About how tough it is being a teenage girl, and how cruel teenagers can be. About breaking the rules. About the ways that history repeats. About longing for a homeland, reaching it, and knowing it can never be yours. It's about the struggle to fit round pegs into square holes until one day you just yell, 'I'm a round peg damnit, I'm not meant to go there, stop trying to hammer me down!' It's about finding connections in unlikely places. About how we tend to forget our parents had lives before we came along, and the ways their unknown stories my influence our own. It's about Selkies, the seal people, and how sometimes on the West coast you can almost believe in them. Deaths. Betrayals. The church. The Gaelic language. Sexuality.
That actually makes it sound a hell of a lot more complicated than it is, probably just easier to read it in a year or two when I get it written (-:
I really hope you manage to find a way through your not!writers' block very soon.
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Date: 2004-10-22 04:26 pm (UTC)::snorts::
Would it help to give yourself permission to do a sucky first draft, and take out your perfectionism in revisions? Or is that where you get stalled?
Would help if I actually believed the permission *sigh* As it is that's often where I get stalled. Working on it though.
What's the novel about, or shouldn't I ask? :)
It's really hard to give a short answer to that question. It's about Skye. The sea always so close and vital. Music and what it can mean to us. Musicians, and how insane and funny they can be. Love and what we'll do for it, give up for it. About how tough it is being a teenage girl, and how cruel teenagers can be. About breaking the rules. About the ways that history repeats. About longing for a homeland, reaching it, and knowing it can never be yours. It's about the struggle to fit round pegs into square holes until one day you just yell, 'I'm a round peg damnit, I'm not meant to go there, stop trying to hammer me down!' It's about finding connections in unlikely places. About how we tend to forget our parents had lives before we came along, and the ways their unknown stories my influence our own. It's about Selkies, the seal people, and how sometimes on the West coast you can almost believe in them. Deaths. Betrayals. The church. The Gaelic language. Sexuality.
That actually makes it sound a hell of a lot more complicated than it is, probably just easier to read it in a year or two when I get it written (-:
I really hope you manage to find a way through your not!writers' block very soon.