ieva melgalve

The change in setting helped a lot. I was stuck in my pre-defined place, with my pre-defined characters and while I liked them and there was a lot to explore, I somehow just couldn’t get myself interested. That makes me think of outlining for future works. There are two versions I can do: to see [...]

When I was a child, I had a theory. The theory went that all the events in the world were pre-determined (I don’t remember whether it was by God or by causality, or by a weird combination of both) and the only thing that we can alter is our perception of these things, our attitude. [...]

The name of this post comes from that yucky cold and gray thing that was attached to kids’ magazine. I never gave it to kids (it’s too gross and, most likely, dangerous to the lil one) but today, I ended up playing with it for ten minutes or so, shuddering with perverse pleasure. I just [...]

Today (after a cool and productive doing-nothing on Sunday… well, I did plan stuff and I did write some lines on The Longest Night, but mostly I read and lazied around) I wrote 1000+ words, stopping mid-scene in what might be one of the key events of the novel. I thought about pushing further today [...]

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 [...]