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[pagemistress]

Hello, Dreamwidth!

OK, so I am very, very new to this place so please bear with me. I know that this place has many of the same functions as Livejournal (but apparently more user friendly) so it shouldn't be too difficult, right? I have been on LJ for years and use it predominantly for my fanfiction but I wanted a place for my original writing also, to keep them both separate and thus this journal was born!

What can you expect to find here? Well, I created a prompt calendar for myself (which I am failing miserably at fulfilling, I might add) so as and when I fill any, I will probably put them up here. I am also currently working through my first novel called The Fates of Angels so I will probably post parts of that and just generally my process of how it's (not) going. I am a terrible procrastinator so if anyone feels like giving me a motivational boost it would be most welcome.

I'll use tags to make things easier to navigate so any prompt fills will be under...wait for it..."prompt fills"! Genius, right? And anything about my book will be under "Fates of Angels". If I decide to start posting the prompts, regardless of whether I've filled it, I'll tag it "daily prompt".

Please feel free to follow/friend/add/whatever me if you are also a writer and enjoy discussing your work and especially if you are willing to trade work for critiquing/feedback.

In my fiction, I tend to lean towards fantasy and science fiction but where my prompts are concerned, it can be all over the shop!

Comments

[moonoverwater]

Hello, I came across your page through the muse_prompts community. I'm also a writer (sort of)...at least I wish to be. Right now, I'm actually leaning more towards scripting, since I'd really like to enter the field of animation writing. But I can never give up my love for writing books.

Anyway, I'm also writing my first novel. I was wondering if I could add you as a friend for support. It seems like a strange request. XD But I swear, I'm not creepy.

[pagemistress]

Hey! Listen, if you write, you're a writer; doesn't matter how you go about it or whether you're recognised by outsiders. I tried my hand at scripting but I found it a lot harder because of the limits it put on my interior monologues...I like getting inside the heads of my characters, hence the joining of the muse communities!

Add away, please! I will add you back and hope to read some of your work :)

[moonoverwater]

Thank you for the add!

Haha, writing novels is actually extremely difficult for me. I guess it's because I stopped working on it for years, and would only start again sparingly. I definitely have a lot of work to do as far as improvement goes.

I guess the reason why I find scripting a lot easier is because I generally don't work with inner monologues. That and I tend to be focused on cartoons more nowadays than books. Being an English major...kind of tuned me away from books for awhile. XD

[pagemistress]

I think there's always room for improvement, no matter how good you are. I still have a lot to learn but diving straight into something has always been my nature.

The book I'm working on was originally intended as a script but I found the characters were becoming too complex for the medium so changed direction. But there are still moments in the plot that I think would look great on screen and I can't do them justice in writing, it's infuriating!