I’m back at RIT now and getting ready to start my second half of my first co-op. I’m living in an apartment with a few friends and things should go well. We’ll have to see if housing tries to ruins our setup or not though. I don’t have much to say about school because I’m not taking classes and I’m just living here.
One thing that I am going to comment on is my writing. Everybody seemed to enjoy the Instant Neon Garden microstory. The first part of Leaves? Not so much. I understand that Leaves doesn’t have much going on and when you read ING first and then Leaves second, you’ll probably be like “What happened to the randomness that was in ING?”. They’re different stories. With Leaves, I have more to write. I have a plan and a basic plot line figured out. I would like to work on that one more, but it’s not going to get silly. That’s not the point of it. ING came from a moment where I was laying in bed and I sat up and went, “I need paper and a pen now.” The first paragraph and the last bit about Gatsby was all I had and then I had to fill in the rest when I posted it. It was spontaneous and was created very quickly. Not too much thought went into it. Is Leaves bad though? Are the stories that I actually think about no good?
I would like to write the next part of Leaves again, revise it, then go back and revise parts one and two as a whole, before going on with the next part. I have done some revisions of part one. They’re subtle though. My revisions won’t be complete rewrites though, which is a problem. I have to be able to say to myself, “Hey, this is okay, but not good enough. Try it again”. Why don’t I do this though? Maybe I’m lazy, making I’m just too stuck in the way I written it the first time. I’m no expert. I need to pay more attention to the things I write and fix them when something isn’t right.
I’d like to get some more non writing posts up here soon though. Maybe one about work, more non writing ideas, some reviews of books or comics (I just finished His Dark Materials, so there is a possibility), more about the things that are happening with me. And photography… that’s going to be the hard one. We’ll wait and see what happens though. I have a lot of plans this year and hopefully I will accomplish at least one of them.
P.S. Did you love the Elton John pun for this posts title? I did.
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