ieva melgalve

This has been a long and exhausting week and miraculously, I got a lot of writing done, and the amount of NaNo planning that makes it possible to get to actual outlining soon. Today, NaNo thing surprised me too, because it seems that the novel I started pondering on as “light, funny and easy to [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, I got that brilliant new idea on a non-fiction e-book. (All ideas are brilliant in the first two days. They HAVE to be, or they’re not really ideas.) Now, I’m trying to figure out when and how I will write it. Luckily, right now I am so busy with Vega (I’ve been doing 1000 [...]

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 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 [...]

These are the Days of Poetry in Latvia, and I’m doing my best in attending as many events as I can to rejoin the folks I abandoned in my several years long hiatus. Somehow, returning after a while, it’s easier to enjoy my local literature, see things in perspective and relax and have a chat [...]

I’m having these vivid dreams lately, featuring dead people and people long lost as well as people I don’t know at all. I also have stuff brewing and characters spawning for my nanowrimo project (now tentatively called Urchin). Yesterday, I did the first character sheet. I also have major headache today (perhaps it’s all those [...]

So. After my initial worldbuilding of Keir, I realized that I was going to do the same mistake as with my previous NaNo novel, namely, making a very complex world with protagonists that are extremely tricky to write while following at least two storylines. Which is a breathtaking idea, but not at the speed of [...]

I’m at some breathtaking point in my writing where I feel my head spinning and for the third day in a row, I’m promising myself not to write today and give myself a break. Yea right. Well, zero words written this far. However what I promised myself was doing some outlining and some rounding-up of [...]