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It's 2011 woohoo!
Jan. 4th, 2011 09:15 pmCan we start saying "twenty-eleven" instead of "two thousand and eleven" now? Or "two thous and eleven", thank you radio announcers? (Thou means thousandth [of an inch], not thousand, and the plural of thou is thou, not thous, and we measure our tappet clearances using the metric system these days anyway.) I want to say "twenty-eleven" and I also can't wait four years for my hoverboard and for my fruit to come out of the ceiling when I call it.
I made a New Year's resolution to Write Stories, and I've not broken it yet although there's still time to break it before bedtime. I'm counting writing half a paragraph of a story I've been writing for four years as Writing Stories, and I'm counting writing some thoughts about what I might put into a story if I wrote one as Writing Stories, so it's been pretty easy not to fail at it so far. I find it very easy to make lists of things that might happen and write background details and do things like scribbling maps and inventing place and character names, but I have no idea at all how to turn that into actual stories where something happens and there's a beginning, middle and end. I'm sure I used to write stories as a child, so I must have known how to do it once, though I recall often having ideas and starting stories but not knowing how to finish them. I'm hoping that either if I try hard enough I'll eventually learn how it's done, or that the internet will suddenly give me sense-making instructions on how to write stories without me actually figuring out what to type into Google to find it.
I made a New Year's resolution to Write Stories, and I've not broken it yet although there's still time to break it before bedtime. I'm counting writing half a paragraph of a story I've been writing for four years as Writing Stories, and I'm counting writing some thoughts about what I might put into a story if I wrote one as Writing Stories, so it's been pretty easy not to fail at it so far. I find it very easy to make lists of things that might happen and write background details and do things like scribbling maps and inventing place and character names, but I have no idea at all how to turn that into actual stories where something happens and there's a beginning, middle and end. I'm sure I used to write stories as a child, so I must have known how to do it once, though I recall often having ideas and starting stories but not knowing how to finish them. I'm hoping that either if I try hard enough I'll eventually learn how it's done, or that the internet will suddenly give me sense-making instructions on how to write stories without me actually figuring out what to type into Google to find it.
