Adrienne's Notebook
Fiction-writing ideas, challenges, and updates.
Procrastinating Again…
Should I post my stories on Tumblr?
http://fiction-is-cheaper-than-therapy.tumblr.com
Moving to Tumblr
Well, sort of.
It’s just easier to post on Tumblr, because I’m always on it anyway. Plus I like the attribution when you reblog something; the Notes feature shows everyone who liked and reblogged a post. You almost always find out who posted an entry first. In addition, submissions are welcome and appreciated. Also, I love that you can put the link for your source. Lastly, you don’t have to worry about text posts all the time because you can post photos, videos, audio files, links, quotes, and conversations.
I won’t completely abandon this blog, but it may take a while before I post original content on this blog. I do plan to post links to the Tumblr posts.
I have the URL down, but I do need an awesome – and creative – title. My choices are:
- Adrienne Dinen (boring!)
- Writing is cheaper than therapy. (may be confused with my editing blog)
- Writing > Therapy
- Writing Fiction
Do you have any suggestions? Leave a comment here! Thanks.
Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing
I found this on Tumblr in February and I reblogged it for its brevity. I have been trying to apply these rules in my own fiction writing. Especially in the story I’m writing. I’m kind of struggling, though. I have acquired so many bad habits in writing that it’s hard to break them. And I mean, incredibly hard.
I think all writers should follow these rules. Do you guys think so? Fellow writers, have you applied these rules in your own writing? Has it worked?
Like this:
I Need to Start Reading Again
I haven’t read much for about a year and a half now. It’s weird and it’s sad, but it’s true.
There was a time when I read one book after another. Most of them were novels, but I also read biographies, memoirs, and self-help books. Despite the rain or snow, I brought a book in my bag and read it during the bus ride or the train ride to work or school and back. If it didn’t rain or snow, I would even read while walking home from the bus stop.
Now it takes me months to finish a book. For example, I read the entire The Dark Tower series in nine months. I finished The Shining in about half that time.
I just don’t have the time and the energy to read anymore. My bus ride these days is a little too short to get some reading done. (It’s one of the reasons I miss working in Burnaby/Vancouver.) If I weren’t watching TV or a movie at home, I would work on bids or doing some other stuff. Most of the time, I did both. iPod Touch games also keep me from reading (among other activities like writing and sleeping); Wedding Dash and Virtual Families are great time-wasters.
But now I’m starting to read books again. I just finished Stephen King’s short story collection Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. Thank God for the iBooks app on the iPhone/iPod Touch. I can read a book on my lunch break, while eating dinner, or while waiting for the bus (if it’s not raining or snowing) for about the same price as a paperback or mass market paperback edition of the same book.
I will also try (operative word: try) to turn off the TV except between 8 to 11 PM and read – or write – instead. Besides I have to reread The Hobbit in time for the release of the movie (part 1).
