So, first: it is entirely possible to write 1100+ words on Sunday and still have time to goof around with some plotting. Second: it is quite impossible to “wing” more than 2000 words, at least for me and at this stage. Scooping up the mess created by “winging it” was quite cumbersome (but interesting). Third: [...]
After the most depressing start of the week, today I finally got my brain back and did a whole lot of good writing. 1000+ words and a beautiful, surprising scene. Seems that sometimes, it is good to take a break. Now only to find a way to recognize these occasions…
I’m having these vivid dreams lately, featuring dead people and people long lost as well as people I don’t know at all. I also have stuff brewing and characters spawning for my nanowrimo project (now tentatively called Urchin). Yesterday, I did the first character sheet. I also have major headache today (perhaps it’s all those [...]
I wrote 300 words for the past two, now three days. I’m going to use something big and heavy and bad to force myself to write at least the 300+ words necessary to meet my goal. In other words, bad bad girl. But a life-enjoying happily-bouncing girl nevertheless. Update in 1 hour or so: nothing [...]
After some (well, after lots of) struggle I seem to have a break-through in this tricky chapter. 1000+ words for me, and passing 30 K mark. I have a problem with a lot of secondary characters appearing at this point, but well, they technically appeared in the first third of the story (albeit barely) and [...]