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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 [...]

So apart from being busy at work, busy with (good) personal life changes and stuff, I have finally found my way back to actual writing. Not the scribbles I sometimes do or an occasional poem (gah!), but something that could be, umm, of some value. It’s nothing big yet, not even grown to a zygotic [...]

Writing Virgin has been very smooth this far, despite the fact that I’ve barely planned anything. I sort of try to do my best at planning but editing and day job gets in the way. So I’ve done, well, almost nothing. The funny thing is that I don’t miss it. I have some things figured [...]

Now, cool. I’ve had a fine first scene, and today I struggled to get the second on page, but, while writing is still enjoyable, the forcing myself to write part is a horror. I suspect it’s because of two things: I’ve gotten darn lazy, and I’m still editing Vega (so for every scene write, I [...]

Since I don’t want to dwelve on NOW, here are my plans of December: – edit a couple of short stories (I mean come on, even *I* get bored at rotating three pieces around) and send them out, – if How To Revise Your Novel course kickstarts by then, I’m planning to be an early [...]

Normally this doesn’t happen like this. Slacking away for 48 hours, doing everything from getting drunk to baking three sorts of cake for house guests without even considering sitting at the keyboard and writing something? That’s not me. (Getting drunk and baking cake is me, but not writing somewhere along the way isn’t.) I guess [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]