ieva melgalve

If I am to meet my self-imposed goal I have to read and mark up 173 pages of Vega today to finish the thing and get on to the next stages of editing. So, can I do it? I could, if I were Stephen King (I spent my allocated editing time reading Misery, with subsequent [...]

Today, I took the Project Humanity and rewrote it from zero. Changing my protagonist to the direct opposite. Rendering the story, if I can trust my husband, 2-3 times better. I know there is a lesson in there, I’m just a bit too tired to learn it.

Yesterday, I put off my regular Vega-writing to whip up a 2000+ word story, now named Project Humanity. I’m fairly happy with the idea and feel, although now I think I’ll have to add three scenes or so to get a proper ending, change stuff along the middle and do some research in order to [...]

This is how the Wordle for my story-in-editing, Mermaid’s Song (yea, the title will most likely get edited too), looks from wordle point of view. I’m just going to edit half of the just‘s out and see if I can find better words for those nondescript ones that keep repeating. No thesaurus-bonking, just a little [...]

Since this has been a day of mostly slacking. 300 words done and they’re not good enough… I’m approaching the point where the mystery starts unfolding, and it’s talk talk talk, and while I’m good with dialogue, it still takes time to do it properly… time and inspiration, and clear understanding of what has passed. [...]