2/20

it's presentation prep time!!!!! :):):)
I made my slide, filtered my background images, and added captions to show what I learned so far and what I expect to learn.

2/13-2/15

The wild thing about writing on different days is that my writing style is a chameleon; it changes. Chapter one is written in purple prose, but it quickly morphs into regular prose. I definitely planned to write in purple, but it's hard to maintain the style in dialogue so I ended up switching between the two styles.

On Thursday I watched HSM. It was wild, too.

2/7 - 2/9

Today's the day I absolutely gave up on Everything and wrote with zero regard for planning anything. I wrote my epitaph poem for the beginning, though I'll probably have to revise it later to make it tighter. I also edited chapter one.

2/1 - 2/5

In which I finally realize a major flaw in my first chapter and fail to find sufficient motivation - it doesn't open with clear conflict.

Which means, I'll get to have the Great Fun of starting somewhere else in the narrative where a problem is a little more obvious, even if it's not the major story arc. I think I need one more major catastrophe, too...

1/26-1/30

I read an interesting article today about how setting can reflect the story - which is something I'd never really thought about. Like, how a mystery story set in a place with winding roads and a lot of narrow alleys contributes to the milieu of uncertainty and indecision. I'm not really sure how to use this revelation to apply to my own though, without changing the setting. For a ghost story, it might be better to use a stereotypically haunted location, but oh well. Maybe I can build upon urban horror tropes.