Writing update

[janradder]

I passed the 200 page mark of my manuscript tonight (a little over 70,000 words).  And I'm feeling pretty stoked about it.  I've been spending the past couple of days writing about Psychos in Love, the movie I worked on when I was fifteen.  In writing this I am finding myself amazed at how much time can really change as you get older.  I'm thinking back to these sections of my youth that seemed to take so long when they were happening and I'm realizing, in writing them, that they only lasted a month or two and I have to stop and think about that to make sure I'm right because even my memory of the events seem like they lasted longer than that.  My grandparents tell me that time moves even faster for them.  I seriously can't imagine that.

Comments

[rambleflower.livejournal.com]

Congrats on passing the 200 page mark! That rocks!

Re: time passing more quickly. I read somewhere that this seems to be true because, as you get older, you're not experiencing new things as much, so your brain sort of "tunes out" more and more because you're so familiar with most of it. So, as a kid, everything is new, so time goes slowly because you're processing so much of the world around you. As you gain familiarity, you tune out, and time zips by.

The solution? World travel. I think. I can't afford to test my theory, other than 2 weeks in Spain in 2000 which, yes, did feel more like a month to me, time-wise.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

That's a really interesting theory. I'd never heard it before but thinking back now, when Haddayr and I travelled to the UK and Ireland for a month in 1999, it really did seem a lot longer (and looking back on it, it seems longer as well). It's kind of sad that we tune out though (I guess it's sort of like a longer version of tuning out while waiting in line or on a car trip).

[janradder.livejournal.com]

And thanks for the congrats!