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The ending of Newil is approaching. There are several problems with that. 1. My Muse is now really, really easy sidetracked. Yeah, you. Look at me, babe, not at that next project you want to be starting. 2. I have no idea what sort of ending do I have (although just yesterday I added one [...]

Finally, I realized that I couldn’t take work any more and took a 2-week long vacation. This resulted in the mental equivalent of having my head smacked with a hammer (Tom&Jerry style): I suddenly lost half of my mental capacity because I figured I don’t need to think any more. I’m fine now, I think, [...]

I have been doing well, this far, on Newil. It took a lucky combination of my night owl nature and lil one’s kindergarten that started on November 1st, so now she goes to sleep at a more predictable time, and I have an hour to write after both kids are asleep. It doesn’t sit well [...]

I’ve done almost zero planning for more than a week, but at least I am at the very happy stage of getting ready for writing when everything seems to contribute to the novel. Ie yesterday I stumbled upon transhumanism, which seems to pretty much deal with the main conflicts in Newil. (I am, yet again, [...]

My Trusted reader and friend Russell arrived in Riga on Friday, and this is the first day when I actually have enough time and energy to post something. He’s just as great in person as in e-mails and Skype (really, need I have worried?). Also, I have almost finished the Flowers (will restart working on [...]

There is this point in planning, and writing, when your perception shifts, picking up more and more clues for the book you are writing. I sit in my kitchen, reading Oliver Sacks (who seems to be giving me really good pointers about the mystical part of Newil), and somebody out there, in the darkness, listens [...]

All this weekend I have been planning extensively, and right now I am feeling pretty good about all this NaNoWriMo thing. A fun, self-paced, moderately relaxed worldbuilding is much like what I guess fitness should be like: adding to places which felt too thin, getting the tangles out and reshaping plot lumps to more manageable, [...]

After returning from Tricon I spent a horrible amount of time recovering. Tricon was great, and the experience I got there was worth it, but still I have to find a way to work consistently even after receiving a large amount of information and emotions. (That is sort of funny, come to think of it–that [...]

Things I’ve done: – worked quite a bit on Vega revision (although the real value of this is still unknown; ie I have very little idea whether I will be able to put that thing in shape and how long it will take), – worked a bit on Newil planning, – worked a bit on [...]

Today, I started planning NaNoWriMo. It seems that I’m going with Newil after all–a decision that surprised me both because it came so easily and because it seems WAY too hard to pull off. I started with a sentence for the plot, and three sentences for the three sons of God. (Yes, capital G, since [...]