A Real Eclipse and Writing Woes

Yeah. Tonight. A real lunar eclipse, like, the kind you see in the sky. My sister told me about it today, except I was quite distressed to learn it wouldn't even be visible where I am, it was only going to be seen in West Coast USA. Not me.

So being very depressed by this, I have decided to point it out. Not that I'm expecting random people from the west coast to find out from my blog, but seriously, I wasn't very pleased that I don't get to see it.

I had a piano lesson today - learning Bach music, it's different than my other instruments, and I've just started, which can make things difficult. But I have learned via life in general that practices makes - if not perfect, pretty close. So I'll just keep at it. . . And hopefully it'll get easier!

My family has been complaining that I spend far too much time on the computer - and whilst they may have a point, I do not spend it as wastefully as they think. Yes, I spend time online, but I also spend a good deal of time writing. Or, more, rewriting, because I'm working on an entry for a contest that I might not even get to enter - I'd have to mail the entry tomorrow, and the story isn't ready to be sent yet - and, as you may deduce, the whole thing just doesn't work.

Here's my dilema: I had about three pages of this amazing descriptive prose that was about this girl getting up from sleeping in a meadow and slowly coming back from her dream to reality. Except then I realized it didn't go anywhere, and there was no action, no plot. So I cropped it down to a page, and she goes home to her busy house and family, and has a conflict to solve there.

Two big problems: I can't think of a conflict, and I hate the new style that randomly creeps into my writing at about the middle of page two. It's just a different thing for me to write action than it is description, and the story changes pace, mood, everything. And I don't like it that way, but there's not much else I can do with it if I want to stand a chance to win the contest, because I know that three pages of description [typed] is crap, and nobody's going to want to read that much, and something needs to happen...

But I'm stuck. So I guess I'll go back to working on that now, and update you on the progress when I get somewhere....

~Luna~