Posts Tagged ‘character’

treading on tiger’s tail

It was 600+ words on Friday (well above my Drop Dead Word Count) and my weekly norm is finished. Also, I did a bit of plotting and prodding on my chapter 5 which is a sorta complicated thingie… so I think I won’t pressure myself and take time to plot my stuff carefully instead of [...]

good talk shall be short

My slacking has somewhat paid off: now I’ve figured out what has happened and what effects does it have on my characters. It turns out that the loooong dialogue I vaguely imagined can be condensed to a couple of sentences, straight to the point. The funny thing with Vega is that in her world, all [...]

stalling

The usual sentiment is that whenever a writer starts slacking badly, this means that she should just keep on writing and hope for the best (e.g. that it’s her natural laziness keeping her from doing what she has to do). For some reason, the usual rule does not work that well for me. Whenever I [...]