ieva melgalve

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 [...]

On Monday, 1000+ words. Today, 800+ words. I really have to get myself together to write all the stuff I’ve intended to do until November (including writing three new stories to stack up in the queue, since I won’t have the time to write anything else during NaNoWriMo). Also, next time I have to schedule [...]

Yesterday, I scrapped all Chapter 11 words (not that there were many) on a premise that “that was just too boring”. The realization that it’s dead boring kicked in when I started procrastinating by making edits to Siren’s Song. I mean HELLO, me and editing out of free will?

Today, due to lack of internet connection, I managed to: – lick up the wounds on a rejection and submit my squad 4 to a new market (and this time, I didn’t shoot myself in the foot by misspelling the genre name, of all things!), – stroll through Project Humanity and queue it up for [...]

Today, I edited The Final Turn, I hope I haven’t ruined the story. By now I have gained that eerie detachment from it; the story is not really “mine” any more, it’s “a story”, and as such edit-able and publish-able. I’m waiting for some feedback from my trusted reader (yea, I’m looking at *you*, Russ), [...]

I just got enough incoming critiques for my short story, “The Final Turn”, to realize one simple, baffling thing. While I myself am fairly good critiquer (able to point the flaws, ask the right questions etc.), I so often fail to ask these same simple questions to myself or point out these same flaws in [...]