It's so much more fun to go over the posts that I wrote before university whilst still in the early stages of Tellan. I spent that time learning about and exploring my own world, creating three-dimensional people from two-dimensional idea's.
University and editing are a little bit more of a brain drain. And as I've said countless times before, A whole lot less exciting to write about. So why am I writing this now? Easy, because I have a huge assessment due on Monday and some procrastination is required...
In one of those old post's I said that I would finish Tellan, that University wouldn't stand in my way, that I could do both. I certainly will never take that back, but it is just as certain that this 'quest' I set out on (editing a novel whilst juggling full time study) probably isn't as easy as I thought it would be.
It can difficult to find inspiration when you're fried from reading pages and pages of tedious readings, or writing pages and pages of equally as tedious essay's.
I draw motivation enough for editing Tellan by working on Tellan maps and making shiny little necklaces.. that and the fact that I am a crazy perfectionist... It needs to be perrrrrfect. But also, I am as determined as they come, and as passionate about the story as I am about eating... or life (even if I sometimes think the way it's written is a little hopeless...). I've taken it upon myself to take printed chapters of Tellan to school with me, so that I can edit between classes, (when I should be studying) or edit on the bus.
And of course there are those days when I decide that my writing is useless, until I read something that makes me think, JESUS, if this can get published then so can I...
In the last week or so Tellan has lost, from three chapters, more than 1000 words. And I am only just getting started... It's amazing how much text, that I once believed to be so vital, is really superfluous to requirement... (like many words in that sentence).
Since a lot of my old posts we're short, this one will be too. here's 'Synopsis in a sentence' from a very old post... Peace.
"The book follows a member of the 'missy's', hidden at 5 months she grows up a dreamer at 14 she is given information -and a revelation- there ensues her quest toward great power and a list of discoveries -truths beyond her imagination- at the conclusion there are new beginnings, a bit of success and a series of endings all resulting in one outcome -the start of an epic journey......"
