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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, [...]

Now, when I finally started writing my NaNoWriMo novel, I found out that having short chapters is way more inspiring for accumulating wordcount. Telling to myself “I added wrote 1200+ words to a chapter that I’ll finish a day after tomorrow if all goes well” doesn’t sound as good as “I wrote chapter 9 today”. [...]

NaNoWriMo has started for me an hour ago. Two hours ago, I didn’t have a clue what to do. I thought I knew the first scene, but after that, everything was blank. Then, I sat down to sort my wordcount sheet and suddenly realized that I have to start earlier in the story, and suddenly, [...]

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 a two days’ work, 1600+ words on Vega. I’m a bit troubled about how my love line is progressing. I feel like writing a mystery or a suspense novel *inside* the love line. Right now, it’s like running back home from a scary forest and even scarier driveaway, locking yourself in, leaning [...]

Yesterday, I pulled 600+ words out. On the re-read this morning, they’re horrible, incoherent and bland and I’m the only person who can possibly decipher what’s happening in the scene…but I’m letting it go for now. This morning, 300+ words, probably better. The good thing about this is that before St.Petersburg I was quite convinced [...]

400+ words this morning. I actually don’t know what to do, my “big bang” is somehow turning out to be a mild, gentle bang. That makes the plot a tad less action-packed and dangerous, but makes sense from antagonist’s viewpoint and the general build. I’ll stick with the gentle version and add some crash and [...]

So. I did 800+ words yesterday and 600+ words today, thus wrapping up a tiny story line with a splash (in an ice-cold water with severely traumatized child in hands). I am now pondering what on earth do I do now. I see the next sentence and the next, but that’s about it. I want [...]

I sat down (tired, exhausted and severely blocked… this really is becoming a rather constipation-like experience) to do some 100 words “for seed” so that I’d have an easier go tomorrow and surprised myself by writing 500+ words. Not that I’m complaining. Lesson 16 of How To Think Sideways arrived today, and I tweaked my [...]

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 [...]