[writing log] October 2024, part 1 of 2
Qualities of coming-of-age stories, the arguments I have with my internalized bad-faith reader named Janet, and a structural activity I made for myself.
My sincerest apologies for my 7 week absence. It was definitely not my intention to drop off the deep end. I started having terrible side effects of a medication I was on, so I went down a dose, not realizing that med was balancing out all the others and, long story short, I’ve basically been asleep this whole time. And when I wasn’t asleep, I wished I was.
But now I’m back to my previous dosage and managing the side effects in other ways, and my energy is slowly returning. I’m hoping to return to my 3x per month posting schedule.
craft concepts & process index:
bildungsroman and künstlerroman — 10/2 — genres of coming-of-age stories
Janet — 10/3 — the name I gave to the bad-faith-reader voice in my head
constraint vs. restraint — 10/4 — a helpful device for creativity and a deeply unhelpful one
novel structure (+ an activity I made) — 10/4 — per Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel: exposition, rising action, climax, denouement