On January I had one false start on Virgin. I got the protagonist wrong–she was one of those whiny creatures thinking that all the society had wronged her; and even though she was right, I hated her. So I stopped to regroup and figured out the right start in the last quarter in January. The [...]
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 [...]
This year, I started with editing and writing. That was going pretty well until this morning when I woke up…well, I didn’t really wake up, i sorta came to consciousness and realized I can’t get out of my bed without swaying and I can’t look into light and I can’t have five minutes peace from [...]
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 with [...]
As I was pondering on the real theme of Vega, I realized that the thing I sort of “prove” in the novel, it’s theme/morality is something that I disagree with.
That’s it.
“It is worth it to fool yourself in order to follow your dream.”
“The best you can ever do is be yourself, never more.”
“You have to [...]
For the last few weeks, I’ve been sorta out of myself. This morning, I slept in a bit and for the first time in a long time I actually had some sensory experience (cold drizzling rain on my face in the morning), something that actually surprised me.
The mundane explanation is it’s sleep deprivation and exhaustion [...]
Since I don’t want to dwelve on NOW, here are my plans of December:
- edit a couple of short stories (I mean come on, even *I* get bored at rotating three pieces around) and send them out,
- if How To Revise Your Novel course kickstarts by then, I’m planning to be an early bird,
- read [...]
I think that part of my problems with editing stems from the language used. It’s “edit” and “cut” and “rewrite” and whatnot. It’s violent.
On almost every other thing I’ve done in my life, I haven’t been so violent if the thing I’ve made hasn’t turned out the way it was meant to be.
For example, embroidery. [...]
Normally this doesn’t happen like this. Slacking away for 48 hours, doing everything from getting drunk to baking three sorts of cake for house guests without even considering sitting at the keyboard and writing something? That’s not me. (Getting drunk and baking cake is me, but not writing somewhere along the way isn’t.)
I guess I [...]
So, I’m going to write a novel during NaNoWriMo. (Who isn’t?)
Also, I’m trying to plan my future somewhat (more a cold-shower exercise, not a snuggles-and-dreams one).
One thing that I’ve been avoiding is marking down “then, I’ll edit my NaNoWriMo novel to completion” point. The reasons are obvious: if I write something in that ungodly speed [...]