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Yesterday night, I sneaked out to the kitchen like an alcoholic mother looking for that hidden bottle of cheap cherry wine, sat on the floor and typed 700+ words, got my heroine in trouble (but she was asking for it big time, and really, how much leeway is she supposed to have, bringing trouble everywhere [...]

1163 words written in the local bar, and apparently we have a changeling in the scene. Oh well. At least she’s not the changeling-that-is-in-fact-shapeshifter. I was thinking about the theme of my work today. Actually, I was thinking about my mortality, and how everything I write is, in fact, redacted from my life and so [...]

Today I finally called one of my old friends. Here’s a snippet: – Listen, you’d know… can somebody die of epilepsy, and can her doctor be sure she’ll die in given amount of time? – Ummm, I don’t think so. You don’t die from epileptic fits unless it’s an accident. – No? But I found [...]

Today, I found out that even a day and a half of not writing, I start feeling withdrawal symptoms: restlessness, frantic housekeeping (I baked bread and cherry cake, and watered the orchids and even cleaned the aquarium) and after that I started wondering, what the heck are people who are not writers doing with all [...]

It was 600+ words on Friday (well above my Drop Dead Word Count) and my weekly norm is finished. Also, I did a bit of plotting and prodding on my chapter 5 which is a sorta complicated thingie… so I think I won’t pressure myself and take time to plot my stuff carefully instead of [...]

The usual sentiment is that whenever a writer starts slacking badly, this means that she should just keep on writing and hope for the best (e.g. that it’s her natural laziness keeping her from doing what she has to do). For some reason, the usual rule does not work that well for me. Whenever I [...]

I wrote my 500 words on “Vega”, my work in progress, on my way to work and I have more bubbling inside. The little event that I planned to speed things up did just that. Also, I found a way of writing an outline that suits me: as I progress, I stack notes related to [...]

Due to my troublemaker nature, I got myself in bigger mess than I expected. So here is what I learned (well, besides the fact that I can full well grow up but dropping trouble-making entirely isn’t going to happen any time soon): the thing that I am truly afraid of when poking the anthill is [...]