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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 [...]

I figured out my middle/ending for The Keyman, who transformed to Keyboy somewhere along the road. That’s most of what I’ve done for the last few days. It’s actually weird, how this story evolved from a dream I had, a very vivid, movie-like dream. I woke up and typed it in a new document. Then, [...]

Who would have thought that I’ll obsess so much about a such a simple matter. Namely, whether or not Vega should have sex with that guy she’s in love with and who is in love with her, although it all happens in their weird mage-style that never allows for real emotional closeness. Well, I think [...]

I have written novels before, but never before have I had the ending to tie together so smoothly. Usually, I just discarded the lesser threads along the way, assuming they weren’t important enough, or ended with a protagonist deciding he didn’t care about anything else than a single problem he was having, something in that [...]

I’m sorry for the long hiatus in this blog – it’s just now that I’ve somewhat regained my senses after moving and the computers (including the server) are back online. For three days, I didn’t write a word. Now I’m thinking that probably I should have because technically, I had the time even if not [...]

So, it seems that I have a new “not-quite-nosebleed” wordcount for a day, namely, 1K words on a working day. (Given that I’m not miserably stuck, that I’m not using my writing time to work on a short story, and I’m distracted some other way… but then, I can grab 20 minutes or so in [...]

I am currently working on two things simultaneously, a short story and a novel. That’s my new way of getting past writer’s block (at least to the point where it becomes intolerable): writing something else that I have to write anyway. I’m approaching a difficult point in my novel, a point that also marks the [...]

Yesterday, I did almost everything but write. Now, it’s even hard to remember what exactly. Well, I was to a couple of performances, but that was in the late evening. Anyhow, it all left me with slightly less than 1000 words to write today. I can do that, theoretically. I fear though that with my [...]

Well, of course, it doesn’t. However, writing after rejection kicks ass because I’m having fun writing, even though I had all reasons to feel discouraged. Which means two things: a) I am really writing because I like writing (which is cool, as it is a reason less dependent on others), b) I am getting used [...]