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Now, cool. I’ve had a fine first scene, and today I struggled to get the second on page, but, while writing is still enjoyable, the forcing myself to write part is a horror. I suspect it’s because of two things: I’ve gotten darn lazy, and I’m still editing Vega (so for every scene write, I [...]

Whenever I’m actively writing I am having those wild dreams that boggle my mind as much as actual writing does. So after having one of those horrible, guild-ridden dreams tonight, I woke up with a “I’m writing today” thought I didn’t even question. (Not that I really wanted to question it.) So I did my [...]

Everybody must have some resolution, right? Well, mine isn’t really a resolution, it’s a not-too-ambitious plan of what I could accomplish without driving myself nuts (either with burn-out or lazy-crap-writer syndrome that kicks in whenever I don’t write much). 1. Edit Vega to the final, query-able version. (That’ll be the hardest, but I believe that [...]

My strategy on beginnings vs middles is like this: (and a word of caution here, it doesn’t give for the best structure or story arc or whatever, but it does make writing interesting throughout the novel) on beginnings, I hold back as much as I can, giving the minimum of what I know to readers [...]

Now, when I finally started writing my NaNoWriMo novel, I found out that having short chapters is way more inspiring for accumulating wordcount. Telling to myself “I added wrote 1200+ words to a chapter that I’ll finish a day after tomorrow if all goes well” doesn’t sound as good as “I wrote chapter 9 today”. [...]

NaNoWriMo has started for me an hour ago. Two hours ago, I didn’t have a clue what to do. I thought I knew the first scene, but after that, everything was blank. Then, I sat down to sort my wordcount sheet and suddenly realized that I have to start earlier in the story, and suddenly, [...]