Saturday, December 19, 2009

New Writing

I has this idea for a novel for a long time, but I thought it sounded too intimidating to write. Plus I can't write romance to save myself, which would be a main feature of the story. I thought I was terrible at writing non-fantasy, but in the end it was my competition story which made me decide to write it. Half of that story was non-fantasy, and I think it worked quite well, so I'm giving this one a go.

And I seriously need to try and force myself to write in discription :( i just wanna let the reader imagine it themselves, but it means the setting is almost non-existent!

Meanwhile, inspired by one of my sister's books on yarn bombing, I decided to give it a shot myself. I went for a walk around the block, and found a nice chair that no-one ever sits on, and making sure no-one was looking, I quickly measured it. I then went home, and in a few hours I had created some knitting to my own made-up pattern. The name reads "Llama" and a smiley face, and I realised through this that I need to develop my sewing letters skills more as both my parents walked past it, stopped and said, "this looks suspiciously like something she would make....." but couldn't read the letters.

Also, I didn't measure it well enough as I was try to get away as quickly as possible, and so it was far too bit and the seam bulges out quite a lot.