quick weekly recap

ieva — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:22:51 +0000

This week, I didn’t do particularly well writing-wise (two days I didn’t write at all due to death in husbands family and funeral) but on the rest of the days, I fared sufficiently (even today, when I was slacking for the most part of the day and managed to pull my act together rather late). I did almost everything I needed to write and learned a couple of things, both personal and writing-related.
- I got a small notebook for noting small glimpses of ideas, this seems to be working just great. Some ideas come from books I read, some from dreams.
- Got un-afraid from writing slow and literary (however, the simple tricks of raising stakes and sticking with people that matter seem to work here, too).
- While editing, I discovered that I actually make more sense than I thought (namely, some of my scenes that seemed pretty useless plot-wise actually are about critical character development stages. I’ll have to change them but at least now I know why I wrote them in the first place).
- Personally, I found out a marvelous thing: that you can communicate with people way more rewardingly if you open up and give them back relevant information, connect with them on levels that aren’t normally in place within first communication with a stranger. Well, that’s a weird thing to discover when you’re almost 30 (normal folks figure it out at 7 or so), but better late than never.
- Also, I found out that (except today) I waste little or no time at all. That’s sorta cool, but also a bit frustrating (it means that I cannot free up more time for writing, I must focus on doing more in shorter amount of time instead, and use a short-short breaks more effectively).
So all in all, this has been a fulfilled week.

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quick weekly recap