Creative Boot Camp, day 1

caitirin has enrolled me in Creative Boot Camp, which for us means that I am to do one creative effort per day for a week. There are several options and rules, such as:

- I have to write at least 400 words, or
- I have to spend at least an hour on writing revisions, or
- I have to draw at least one complete picture ("complete" to be decided by caitirin; detailed busts are fine. Turtles in party hats are not. Unless they're extremely life-like turtles.)
- I am to journal about my Creative Boot Camp experience, publicly or not.

Tonight I worked for a little more than an hour on something from the dark depths of my computer: LotR fic. It's taken me years and years to work up the courage to even write any of my ideas down, let alone contemplate posting them anywhere (eeugh). The one I'm working on now has the most likelihood of seeing the light of day (out of the whopping two I've ever written), and it's still pretty... eeugh. LotR doesn't come easily to me, in spite of how I love it, much in the way that Utena fic doesn't. But I'm enjoying myself and finding my work fulfilling, which is what it's all about :)