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some thoughts on learning to write, sorta.
Feb. 4th, 2002 10:06 pmWell, I've been having a hellacious time w/ LiveJournal tonight...
seems like every other link I click gives a Server not found error. I assume it's timing out for some reason or other... :รพ
Satyrday, picked up Silver On The Tree, the last of the Dark Is Rising sequence. (reading them out of order, basically when I get them from the library. Love Interlibrary Loan!! :) Read about half of it during the day.
Sunday, worked at B. Dalton. Picked up Volume Six of The History of Middle-Earth: The Return of the Shadow, which is Part 1 of The History of The Lord of the Rings o.O (I would hate to have to catalogue that for a library!)
This basically shows how The Fellowship of the Ring evolved as JRR Tolkien wrote it. Edited by his son, Christopher.
It's quite interesting for those who are trying to write better (like me), because it DOES show the evolution/rewrites, etc. I know it takes a lot of rewriting, self editing &c. to write a story, but I still feel that when I try to write something, it should come out right the first time. Reading the changes LotR went through helps me get the feel that it doesn't have to be perfect the first time.
I'll probably eventually get the book that The Gneech and Frisk have mentioned.
Nowadays, you probably wouldn't be able to do a book like Return of the Shadow, because Christopher Tolkien has taken all the various manuscripts his father wrote, and rewrote, sometimes having several versions on a single sheet of paper. JRR was writing during the early phases of WW2, and paper wasn't the most plentiful thing... Some parts were written on the back of exam papers, and even over the exam itself....
Now, with most ppl. probably doing this type of writing using computers, the intermediate stages probably get deleted.
seems like every other link I click gives a Server not found error. I assume it's timing out for some reason or other... :รพ
Satyrday, picked up Silver On The Tree, the last of the Dark Is Rising sequence. (reading them out of order, basically when I get them from the library. Love Interlibrary Loan!! :) Read about half of it during the day.
Sunday, worked at B. Dalton. Picked up Volume Six of The History of Middle-Earth: The Return of the Shadow, which is Part 1 of The History of The Lord of the Rings o.O (I would hate to have to catalogue that for a library!)
This basically shows how The Fellowship of the Ring evolved as JRR Tolkien wrote it. Edited by his son, Christopher.
It's quite interesting for those who are trying to write better (like me), because it DOES show the evolution/rewrites, etc. I know it takes a lot of rewriting, self editing &c. to write a story, but I still feel that when I try to write something, it should come out right the first time. Reading the changes LotR went through helps me get the feel that it doesn't have to be perfect the first time.
I'll probably eventually get the book that The Gneech and Frisk have mentioned.
Nowadays, you probably wouldn't be able to do a book like Return of the Shadow, because Christopher Tolkien has taken all the various manuscripts his father wrote, and rewrote, sometimes having several versions on a single sheet of paper. JRR was writing during the early phases of WW2, and paper wasn't the most plentiful thing... Some parts were written on the back of exam papers, and even over the exam itself....
Now, with most ppl. probably doing this type of writing using computers, the intermediate stages probably get deleted.
