Well, hello everybody!
Wow, how did two weeks pass? You know, it's very weird... I've kept thinking that I'm making good progress, but actually I've just been making tiny *squeezes index and thumb together* progress. I have only added scenes or elaborated on ch6-8, which already had material. Why, last night I spent three HOURS in the bathtub, writing by candlelight, but all I got done was a page.
I think I have gotten even slower. o_o
In my defense, I have also taken up some of my free nights working on paintings. I did two paintings of scenes that happen at the same location in dramatically different circumstances:
Chapter 7 of rewrite, their first physical meeting:
Chapter 48 of first draft, when shit's about to go down:
It's funny, because I can't seem to paint at all if I don't have a very particular thing I'm dying to get out of my head. These came about because of a fire under my ass, and now I'm kind of missing what fun I had painting. I'm waiting for a new vision to pop up now.
But anyway, yes, yes, the writing HAS been happening! And the inspiration has been happening! I have been all over youtube doing phantom-surfing again. I found some beautiful sounding Dutch Christines. I discovered Norm Lewis. ♥o♥ A Phantom "whose balls have dropped" as the first commenter on that video has put it.
I also found a series from 2014 called "Daae Days", which has my favorite ALW Christine, Sierra Boggess, showing what it's like to work on Phantom. She's so cute, toooo!! In one of them, she had a chat with a bunch of past or current Christines. In my favorite one, she went to wake up Jeremy Hays (Raoul) wearing the full Red Death costume, with Norm just giggling it up the whole time. The Phantom and Christine pulling pranks on Raoul! She walked in on Carlotta warming up and twirking upside down, went out to eat with Liz Robertson (Madame Giry for 25th anniversary), and then wraps it up during intermission for the show, when she's all beautifully dressed up for Masquerade, and goes "welp, I gotta go to a party."
So anyway, I'm just charmed at the moment. Thinking about the good things that exist. Not wanting anything else but some time to write. I bought wine! And I discovering how strangely inspiring it is to write in the bathroom with candles (as I said above, even if it was just a page.)
The only thing that's been bothering me is that I'm so concerned about chapter 6 building up to their first physical meeting, and him really seeming to come into this Phantom persona, that I can't seem to make much progress on it. I've come up with ideas for things to happen, but it feels like I'm just stringing them together and still not building up the gravity and intrigue. If anyone can talk to me about this, I would love that. Chapter 7 is done, but I can't share it without chapter 6! And who knows, the way that chapter 6 might come about in its final form, it may change something in chapter 7! Since I was so blocked last night, I started doing more parts for chapter 8, too, which is more than half done. So I'm stuck keeping all this material to myself! ughhhhhhhhhh
-J
Wow, how did two weeks pass? You know, it's very weird... I've kept thinking that I'm making good progress, but actually I've just been making tiny *squeezes index and thumb together* progress. I have only added scenes or elaborated on ch6-8, which already had material. Why, last night I spent three HOURS in the bathtub, writing by candlelight, but all I got done was a page.
I think I have gotten even slower. o_o
In my defense, I have also taken up some of my free nights working on paintings. I did two paintings of scenes that happen at the same location in dramatically different circumstances:
Chapter 7 of rewrite, their first physical meeting:
Chapter 48 of first draft, when shit's about to go down:
It's funny, because I can't seem to paint at all if I don't have a very particular thing I'm dying to get out of my head. These came about because of a fire under my ass, and now I'm kind of missing what fun I had painting. I'm waiting for a new vision to pop up now.
But anyway, yes, yes, the writing HAS been happening! And the inspiration has been happening! I have been all over youtube doing phantom-surfing again. I found some beautiful sounding Dutch Christines. I discovered Norm Lewis. ♥o♥ A Phantom "whose balls have dropped" as the first commenter on that video has put it.
I also found a series from 2014 called "Daae Days", which has my favorite ALW Christine, Sierra Boggess, showing what it's like to work on Phantom. She's so cute, toooo!! In one of them, she had a chat with a bunch of past or current Christines. In my favorite one, she went to wake up Jeremy Hays (Raoul) wearing the full Red Death costume, with Norm just giggling it up the whole time. The Phantom and Christine pulling pranks on Raoul! She walked in on Carlotta warming up and twirking upside down, went out to eat with Liz Robertson (Madame Giry for 25th anniversary), and then wraps it up during intermission for the show, when she's all beautifully dressed up for Masquerade, and goes "welp, I gotta go to a party."
So anyway, I'm just charmed at the moment. Thinking about the good things that exist. Not wanting anything else but some time to write. I bought wine! And I discovering how strangely inspiring it is to write in the bathroom with candles (as I said above, even if it was just a page.)
The only thing that's been bothering me is that I'm so concerned about chapter 6 building up to their first physical meeting, and him really seeming to come into this Phantom persona, that I can't seem to make much progress on it. I've come up with ideas for things to happen, but it feels like I'm just stringing them together and still not building up the gravity and intrigue. If anyone can talk to me about this, I would love that. Chapter 7 is done, but I can't share it without chapter 6! And who knows, the way that chapter 6 might come about in its final form, it may change something in chapter 7! Since I was so blocked last night, I started doing more parts for chapter 8, too, which is more than half done. So I'm stuck keeping all this material to myself! ughhhhhhhhhh
-J
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