A philosophical question

[winter]

What does one write about in Livejournal when there's nothing to write about that would be interesting to other people?

In the past few days I've managed to crack a tooth, break two nails, learn the basics of financial modelling, start arranging the four days I'll spend in Berlin in June (watching dancing vampires, of course) and chat a bit with fyrie. Work's taking up a large enough chunk of my mind that I don't have much energy left once I go home - enough to write a bit of our RP/collaborative fiction thing, read the comms I follow, and that's about it. About the only interesting thing in my real life is that I'm going to the last audition stage of the Moniuszko vocal competition on Saturday. I'm tentatively arranging to buy a Takarazuka DVD via a friend, but again, that's not of interest to anyone.

I don't see any points about meta, I'm not watching/reading/listening to anything that'd constitute a fandom other people follow, and what writing creativity I have is engaged by the aforementioned RP/collaborative fiction thing.

I'm seriously entertaining the idea of taking up drawing again just so I'll have something to post that other people can poke fun at.

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[fyrie.livejournal.com]

We really need to get back to our independant babies, don't we? Silly muses, interacting so nicely.

(Also, have worked out prologue and epilogue of Edouard's story :D)

[winter]

Hey, not complaining! Just about the fact no-one else'd be interested in hearing about how well Amidio and Tara go together, or how much fun it is to femmeslash two androgynous mortal enemies :P

(Besides, I have a feeling that once you graduate, life will get in the way of quite this volume of RP, anyway.)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*grins* Don't forget the gender-flipping drinking buddies, the ambisexual American and the ex-Empress :D

(True, alas)

[winter]

But hey, we both HAVE to get published before we hit thirty, right? And since you write quicker, that works ;)

(And really, the RP's given me tons writing-wise. Experience writing new character types, new scenes, writing-on-demand basically...)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Definitely :D We've both got enough writing experience to back us up :) And seconded on that :D Now, if only we could both independantly sit down and pull something together, we could probably manage to write it in record time ;)

[winter]

For the moment I'm considering an improved version of "morning pages" - after a 1000 or so words of freeform writing to be discarded (which is very, very freeing - did it after today's incident and it calmed me down with a snap), 1000 words of fiction. Nanowrimo lite, sort of thing :)

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

You do morning pages, too?

And I maybe should try that sort of thing, too. I've been horribly writer's blocked lately.

[winter]

I've stumbled on the idea on several LJs recently and did it for the first time today. I think I'll make it part of my routine from now on - mornings are usually easy at work, anyway :)

Btw, have you actually read Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way"? I'm wondering whether to order it.

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

I've been doing them for nearly two years now and don't want to live without them, they've become such a part of my morning routine. They help me loads in both getting my life and mind into a better order, and in making it easier to write a lot.

I read "The Artist's Way" and worked through it a couple of years ago, that's what got me started on the morning pages. I simply loved it - in fact, in the stage of my life then, it both helped me in my writing and pretty much saved my mental health. It's hard to say whether everyone will find it equally useful, it probably depends on who you are and what's going on in your life at the moment. But the exercises are in any case helpful in exploring your creativity, and I don't know anyone who didn't like it. I also liked her "The Right to Write", lots of exercises and encouraging talk about writing.

[winter]

I think I will order it, then. It sounds incredibly nifty, though I'm usually worried about those kind of books.

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

I do recommend it. I was suspicious of it at first, but it did turn out much better than I imagined. What I like about Julia Cameron is that she makes writing (and creativity in general) be all about what you think is fun or what you want to do for whatever reason, not about attempting very seriously to do Great Art that someone else has defined as great. :D

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*ponders* Could start doing things like that, because goodness only knows I have enough scenes rolling around in my head. Most especially Caspar's stalking of Edouard, because really, nothing says love like being stalked by a psycho.

[winter]

Plus sooner or later, those little scenes do add up :)

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

Well, I would be interested. ;)

Also, I envy your travelling plans. Though I will get myself to Berlin at some point, just not sure yet when. Btw, do you already have a hotel reserved? Because my father is going to Berlin next week and he's staying in a hotel that is at the same street as the theatre and fairly cheap. If it turns out to be any good, I could recommend it.

[winter]

I'll keep that in mind ;) I'm up to mid-January in archiving the threads and wibbling on whether to put them in a timeline order or leave them as is.

I'm staying in a hotel that's near Tiergarten and I'm paying 40 euro per night for a double ensuite with breakfast, so it's kind of hard to beat :) We're generally planning on a lot of sightseeing and shopping...

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

Well, I at least won't have much of a problem reading them out of timeline order if that's too much trouble.

And that certainly sounds good! Hmm, would you let me know the name of the hotel so I can compare that and my father's hotel for when I go there, whenever it will be.

[winter]

I actually think it'd read better in thread order, because that was the way we "saw" it, so to speak. We plan ahead sometimes, but often things just work out :)

http://www.berlin-hotel-sickingerhof.de - but their rates there are higher. I went through Booking.com and just like with Vienna, I got a sizeable discount through them :) I have to admit I'm kind of enamoured of the service, since their customer service is also stellar - I had a slight issue and I got a reply in Polish, explaining everything, and they even contacted the hotel for me :)

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think thread order would be fine. It's not like operating between different time levels is difficult anyway, that happens even in published literature that is planned that way.

Thanks! Booking.com seems to be very useful for this kind of stuff.

Bah, I want to go and travel - I wonder if I could afford it. Stupid being stuck here on the edge of Europe where it's a lot more trouble and cost to travel to interesting places. Though of course it's better than being stuck on another continent...

[winter]

I must say I'm quite thankful for trains most days. Though Budapest will be plane, simply because it'd be two days lost on travelling otherwise.

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

Can't wait till I'm in Geneva and have a considerable part of Europe in relatively easy reach. I'll only be able to travel on weekends and will not have much extra money in my disposal, but still, I'm thinking I'll at least go to see Les Mis in St. Gallen (Jesper will be there then, hopefully Mathias Edenborn will be, too) and whatever is playing in Stuttgart at the time - can't recall if Wicked is supposed to start by then but I think so... Plus I'll probably go doing shopping in France or Germany at some point just because it'll no doubt be cheaper than Switzerland.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

In sequence! I wouldn't make sense otherwise! :D And we only have a couple more old story arcs to cover (H and A's first encounter, and possibly the first trial?)

[winter]

Sequence meaning?

And I'd rather not do the trial, though some individual stories pre- and post- might be good. It makes sense to have it be the big thing everyone only alludes to :)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

In linear order, timeline-wise, because we're so all over the place and we know where we're headed but anyone who reads it might not.

Plus, I don't think I could rein Ildri in and make hir behave for it.

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

> What does one write about in Livejournal when there's nothing to write about that would be interesting to other people?

I thought that was considered a blasphemous question in the Land of Blog?

FWIW, I agree with your sentiment, but there seems to be a lot of things that could be made interesting even in the short snippet above. Why do you want the Takarazuka DVD? Is it good? What is it about? What's the Moniuszko vocal competition about - not "Polish Idol" I hope?

Anyway, while there's no deatch of subjects to write about - there never is - I get a feeling it's more limited by the two constant enemies: Time and Energy.

Would you have T&E to draw?

[winter]

*snickers* Polish Idol it ain't. Vocal opera competition.

I think half the problem is because I write so much between work and the RP, I'm kind of burned out on it. Drawing is something I want to get better at, so it's a technical effort rather than a creative one. Plus I've just learned to draw noses facing forward - which is much harder than it sounds, IMHO.

[shisakura.livejournal.com]

Well, in that case you simply don't write. Like me :D;;;

[winter]

Which is what I'm trying to avoid, I think ;) Keeping in social circles and so on.

always nice to see you in LJ land............

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

sad to hear about the tooth.

good luck if you decide to draw again. I can't draw:(