Monday, May 4, 2009

Third meeting

The third meeting is due today.
In the email circular our leader suggested that there would be less projects and more fun in the classes.
This time I am way behind with my homeworks. We had like 4/5 tasks and I'm finished with 2.
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One of them was to revise one (or one part of) my previous work.
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I have two ongoing projects (wips). One is Halo, the other one is called Copper Moon. I have not contributed a single line to the latter in more than a year. Do you think it means I will never ever finish it? I don't think so. I want to finish Halo first, you know.
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So, since none of my longer-sized wips are ready I re-composed a poem instead.
It is a simple 8-line paganistic poem.
I adjusted the number of syllables so as to have the same length of lines, removed 2 cliches and 1 inappropriate word. I chose more suitable words and expressions. Also I changed 1 word to avoid unnecessary repetition.
This poem is written in Hungarian.
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I usually do this revision as a habit, you know.
Now the strange thing was to do it deliberately and with defined methods.
I tend to write impulsively, which sometimes results in quite a flow of words, sometimes with not a word at all for weeks. I assume this is not the right way, but I find it hard to manage and control my inspiration. I don't even know if any control is possible.
Whenever I'm finished with something I usually check the thing over to remove and unwanted repetitions, cliches, misused words, inappropriate subjects and objects, verb usage, grammar and so on.
I do it impusively, too -
How your writing's going?

7 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

I wrote all day yesterday, but on nofiction. hopeing to get back to fiction today.

steve on the slow train said...

I've been neglecting my writing lately, wasting time on Facebook. I'm in the process of moving myself out of Bloomington, Illinois, and back to Elkhart, Indiana. "Things Done and Left Undone" is stuck at Wednesday, August 28, 1968, during the big police riot outside the Conrad Hilton in Chicago. The historical chapters are hardest because of conflicting accounts of what happenend.

Best wishes for your writing projects,

SzélsőFa said...

Thank you Charles and Steve.

I'm stuck with both my projects.
Thank you for the good wishes !

Vesper said...

Revising with a specific method - that's very interesting and helpful.

My writing is doing badly... I can't seem to gather the necessary energy.

Good luck with your projects!

SzélsőFa said...

Thanks Vesper - I've been absent from writing, but I do visit your blogs.

Karen said...

I want to write daily but have to wait for inspiration to hit. I'm afraid I'll wreck my car trying to get a phrase written down. I've found that if I don't write it when I think it, I sometimes lose it.

SzélsőFa said...

Hi Karen, I'm happy you found out about this other blog of mine.
I absolutely feel the same way about writing - but I don't have a car, so I'm probably safer.
;)