Friday. Finally.

Weekend To-Do List

- Get new plates
- Clean bathroom
- Clean kitchen
- Write for at least 10 minutes Sat/Sun
- Read more Master and Commander
- Figure out ‘menu’ for family arriving later this week
- Make a list of favourite authors for possible ‘writing collage’ exercise

So, the ‘writing collage’ is actually something my husband suggested. It’s basically taking bits and pieces of writing that I’ve enjoyed and doing a bit of a collage or sections. Like a section of Jennifer Crusie, with a bit from another author, followed by a section of Terry Pratchett.

It’s part of my attempt to go a bit further in with my writing.

I feel that up to now my writing has really focussed on dialogue and I’d like to incorporate more details, more inner thoughts and descriptions. This collage exercise is just me picking out bits of writing that I enjoy.

At the moment my list of authors is:

Jennifer Crusie (which surprises nobody)
Isabel Allende
Madeleine L’Engle
Terry Pratchett
Stephen King (some of it, not all – the man can create an atmosphere of dread like nobody)
Raymond Chandler
Dorothy Sayers
Agatha Christie (these two especially for how they drop in important details so naturally)
Elissa Haden Guest

The plan is to re-type the sections I like to see how it feels to write them. Possibly overkill, but I like the idea of this, so we’ll see how it goes.

Anybody have any amazing plans for the weekend?