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Woohoo–subject! After the long and procrastinatory arrival at the ending, I am now there, @50 K and some, and with a good ending too. It’s certainly a “serialized something” format since the end, while wraps up the main problems faced in the novel(-ette) creates a cliffhanger even worse. Before I slink off to vegetative state, [...]

I’ve been neglecting this blog for a while. First, NaNoWriMo. Some days, I didn’t have enough words to write a letter, much less a blog entry. When I did, I rather wrote a letter. The good news is that I got my words done on a steady pace, and I’ll get the 50K by the [...]

The change in setting helped a lot. I was stuck in my pre-defined place, with my pre-defined characters and while I liked them and there was a lot to explore, I somehow just couldn’t get myself interested. That makes me think of outlining for future works. There are two versions I can do: to see [...]

Change the hairstyle (something, by the way, Urchin did in my novel). Or change the setting and even character cast of the novel (which is what I just did). Or change the wordpress theme for something that you’re not sure you like but it’s different. Anything but dwell on the “I’m never gonna do this [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, I was so sick of my novel that at one point I arrived to the conclusion that I don’t like it, I don’t love the theme, I am sick of my characters, I’m not interested in the setting, and what I’d rather do is to blow everything up and end the story in mayhem, [...]

I guess I’ve bored/sickened my dear readers with this theme, but until I get my teeth fixed there’s no escapement. Today, I learned that writing zealously before the dentist’s appointment is great; I could open my eyes, stare at her and think “probably this is how Urchin saw the surgeon”, and when she hit a [...]

OK, here’s what every day taught me. Monday. Writing Helps To Improve Wordcount. Tuesday. I should’ve used that trip to the dentist to write instead of obsess about what she’s going to do to me. What’s two root canals compared to not having your words done by evening? (Also, it *is* tecnically possible to write [...]

Subj. disrupted my writing yesterday: 1400+ words done when I should’ve had 2500 or so. Considering that today won’t be much gentler on me (I have a small party with a potential to go wild at home), I’ll really have to work…but when? Tomorrow when I’ll go with my family to the country and “will [...]

I’m one of those people whose performance drastically alters whenever the air pressure changes. Last night, it started snowing – something I could have expected since yesterday, I didn’t even reach 700 words. But that whas what I’ve been expecting. As long as I keep up with my best wordcounts, I’ll be fine.