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My Trusted reader and friend Russell arrived in Riga on Friday, and this is the first day when I actually have enough time and energy to post something. He’s just as great in person as in e-mails and Skype (really, need I have worried?). Also, I have almost finished the Flowers (will restart working on [...]

Last Saturday, I spent a beautiful day with Emma Jones, and am still digesting her book, slowly, a poem-on-poem basis. Emma is one of those people with whom I reach immediate contact—and have no way of adequately expressing it afterwards; or maybe I’m afraid to talk about it too much lest I shatter that gentle [...]

All this weekend I have been planning extensively, and right now I am feeling pretty good about all this NaNoWriMo thing. A fun, self-paced, moderately relaxed worldbuilding is much like what I guess fitness should be like: adding to places which felt too thin, getting the tangles out and reshaping plot lumps to more manageable, [...]

After returning from Tricon I spent a horrible amount of time recovering. Tricon was great, and the experience I got there was worth it, but still I have to find a way to work consistently even after receiving a large amount of information and emotions. (That is sort of funny, come to think of it–that [...]

Things I’ve done: – worked quite a bit on Vega revision (although the real value of this is still unknown; ie I have very little idea whether I will be able to put that thing in shape and how long it will take), – worked a bit on Newil planning, – worked a bit on [...]

Today, I started planning NaNoWriMo. It seems that I’m going with Newil after all–a decision that surprised me both because it came so easily and because it seems WAY too hard to pull off. I started with a sentence for the plot, and three sentences for the three sons of God. (Yes, capital G, since [...]

So I’ve done 130 pages right now and it’s clear that instead of 5 chapters (150 pages) as I planned, this will take 6 chapters (180 pages). And yes, I’m back in my productive mood, sort of. I am, as always, dissatisfied with how little I actually do, and I’m quite sure I could be [...]

Today, I finally put the end to the chapter 4 of Flowers. All the main players are in the key location (except for the dark horse, Daniel, who’s about to make his move very, very soon). And it’s fun. I don’t know at what point had I decided that everything I write has to be [...]

So I’ve had a weekend that really reset my stress-counter to zero (not that I feel obliged to run myself down again). And I’ve added a couple of pages to the Flowers. This is good. I’ll be going by tram to work again, starting tomorrow–but my son will come with me, so I don’t know [...]

I managed to create three more pages for Flowers today, and thus the morning has started brilliantly. All in all, it seems that in those days when I can find some time for writing, I feel much better in the mornings. On the other hand, I’ve got my old anxiety back, and can’t figure out [...]