November Nanowrimo

I love the fact that I made a huge post about being BACK on blogger and then subsequently fell off the face of the earth. Oops?

So the past 6 or so months have been fairly full of writing. I wrote about 78k total in June and July for June nanowrimo. I'm looking at picking that project up again in the new year to finish the draft (A friend will be reading what I have so far over Holiday Break and I'm waiting to see what her thoughts on it are before I dive back in).

I started classes Evergreen, they have been going quite well. I was able to use November Nanowrimo as my sustained writing piece of a class this quarter. I did not finish nano unfortunately. I hit 36k, got sick the second to last day of november and decided it wasn't worth killing myself over. So my goal for December is to write 1000/day to finish the first draft (give or take a week). This story may be familiar to people who have been followers of this blog in the past, it's a reboot of Red Inside (which, sorry, is no longer available for public reading). And when I say reboot, I do mean reboot. The structure has been completely and radically revamped. The narrative is 3rd person though it vacillates between omniscient and limited, jumps forwards and backwards in time, loops back on itself and generally feels like something radically different than anything else I've written.

Because I have been writing it in conjunction with my class, I've also incorporated outside materials in a way I've never felt compelled to before. Chapters have epigraphs and scenes have quotes from my peer group work and from readings in class. I've also been incorporating "responses" if you will to Thalia Field's Experimental Theatre (link) as narrative excursions. It's been an interesting trip and I'm pretty far from being finished with it. For those interested, keep reading for an

Excerpt, from Red Inside (da) by K Rumsey (do not copy, reproduce, use without permission etc)

And we're back, paranoia over

So the thing is, I miss blogging on blogger? Like, I really like it and I like my layout and there are things I dont like (such as the comments set up) but I can live with it so... we're back! Excerpts are still restricted to mine eyes only and I probably won't be posting lengthy new excerpts but I WILL be talking about my writing. Or at least, that is the plan.

Long time gone...

Hello all and sundry, I realize it's been ages since I've posted. Life's been busy (ish) and mostly uninspired. Ive done very little writing since the end of January unfortunately (two months and maybe 2k max it's terrible) and havent felt very creative. Mostly this is down to stress, more stress, personal stress, terrible class choices in school and my propensity to avoid stress by ignoring it.

April is Script Frenzy month so if you are at all intrigued by the idea of writing a screenplay in a month check it out. I kind of want to do it though I dont have a lot of practice writing scripts so we'll see what happens.

The primary purpose of this post is to link you all to a meme I'm doing this year, it is 365 Movies in a Year. I've got a late start and Im not sure I'll manage a whole 365 movies but I do plan on keeping a record of the films (no tv alas) I watch and at the very least starring them. Might even do a bit of review, thoughts, analysis with the ones that strike up a chord. So the document for that is here and a more permanent sticky post here at the blog will probably be forthcoming if I get bored and want to jazz it up lol

That's all for now, hopefully I'll have some script frenzy news to post soon ;)

-KR

The periodic Glimpse @ the Writer's Notebook post

When I get stuck on a story I tend to start neurotically outlining. This is a glimpse at my notebook (which I'm messing around with instead of working but we'll just ignore that). And yes the posted notes are actually covering up even more crap.

A page out of my book

 

An average 'outlining' page from my notebook. Shows the breakdown of three sections, basic beat for each section, and detailed list of possibilities for a specific beat.

Because I am heartsick

Regarding the recent blogposts concerning drinking and rape -

"Jessica Wakeman at The Frisky 'bravely' ventured that maybe us laydeez really do need lecturing about 'how taking more drugs or drinking more booze than you can handle is stupid.'"

(Quote taken from feministe, read the full article here: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/12/16/girl-on-girl-victim-blaming-action-or-the-most-terrible-time-of-the-year/ )

First and foremost this statement is wrong because it is still VICTIM BLAMING.

Would you ever tell a man not to drink because it leaves him vulnerable to being raped? No? Because you do not define his existence as a human being as an object to be raped.This double standard that requires women to be constantly vigilant, putting the responsiblity and the blame on their shoulders, not only continues to perpetuate the victim-blame-game but highlights what is WRONG with socialized standards of thought.

By existing a woman is not asking to be raped. That's a choice on the part of the rapists. Rape happens because rapists rape, there is no consent involved, the rapist is not interested in consent. That anyone is going to disparage a victim because they werent able to fight back in a situation where THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAD TO FIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE, is deplorable.

And here's the point, women shouldn't have to be constantly vigilant. We shouldn't have to live in fear of being raped and assaulted and used. We shouldn't have to curb our behavior anymore than any man has to. We only have to be wary and fearful and constantly on our guard because there is something BROKEN and wrong with male patterns of thought; with this insidious, persistent idea that a woman by the simple act of breathing, is first and foremost, something to be fucked.

You want to know why chivalry is bullshit? There shouldn't be a need for protection in the first place.

This is not consent - June Jordan

Recapping november

Recapping november and writing since the end of NaNoWriMo....

Well, I hit 12k for my nano novel. Not great but it's still a pretty significant amount of writing to accomplish (for me). It averages out to like 4k/week but really I think I was doing more like 7k/week for the last two weeks which is not too shabby.

Since then I've been giving myself a tiny brain break by writing a fairly serious take on a crack Inception Kink Meme prompt. It's good. I started it about two weeks ago and have a little over 8k written. Not too shabby at all considering it was the last week of instruction + dead week (ie study for finals week) + FINALS this week. Am going to try to write 1.2k on it today and hit around the 9.5k mark if everything goes according to plan. I'm confident the entire fill should reach 15k possibly 17k. After that I need to write a couple short fills for Angst_Bingo since I REALLY want to write a blackout for that this round and April is the deadline (I think that means 25 fills at a minimum of 500 words/fill but knowing me they'll all be closet to 700-1500/fill)


Am looking at possibly being expelled from school. I'm basically 100% certain I'm going to fail one of my classes and theres a cap on how many classes you can drop in the course of your ENTIRE academic career which I used up last yr. What kind of policy is that? Ugh. So I'm going to get an F and I'm feeling pretty worried that this will lower by gpa too much. In the event of possibly expulsion though my plan is to finish my AA via online classes with SPS and get a job and save up enough money to go to film school.