Today is the first day of my vacation. Curiously enough, I’ve managed to keep myself fairly busy with stuff, writing, editing and kids.
Anyhow, the bottom line is… well, there are two bottom lines:
1. I seem to be quite unable to Do Nothing, Really Nothing except when I’m totally burned out.
2. I seem to be able [...]
On January I had one false start on Virgin. I got the protagonist wrong–she was one of those whiny creatures thinking that all the society had wronged her; and even though she was right, I hated her. So I stopped to regroup and figured out the right start in the last quarter in January. The [...]
Today, I did some work on Vega edits (figured out the plot and two subplots out of six). That was rather inspiring, especially since I am reading Sherlock Holmes lately–it seems that mystery line will grow rather strong. I hope I can pull it off since I know next to nothing about mystery writing.
When I [...]
Everybody must have some resolution, right? Well, mine isn’t really a resolution, it’s a not-too-ambitious plan of what I could accomplish without driving myself nuts (either with burn-out or lazy-crap-writer syndrome that kicks in whenever I don’t write much).
1. Edit Vega to the final, query-able version. (That’ll be the hardest, but I believe that with [...]
If I am to meet my self-imposed goal I have to read and mark up 173 pages of Vega today to finish the thing and get on to the next stages of editing. So, can I do it? I could, if I were Stephen King (I spent my allocated editing time reading Misery, with subsequent [...]
Since I don’t want to dwelve on NOW, here are my plans of December:
- edit a couple of short stories (I mean come on, even *I* get bored at rotating three pieces around) and send them out,
- if How To Revise Your Novel course kickstarts by then, I’m planning to be an early bird,
- read [...]
After 2262 words today, Vega is finally finished. Two final scenes written, one of them will need to be reworked massively, but the last one almost made me cry. I also ended just a tad before 81 000 words, which is a pretty good number for a first novel.
I am now a bit too exhausted [...]
Last week, I wrote “finish Vega” in my to-do-calendar.
As a result, I barely wrote 2K instead of my usual 4K words, I got a bad attack of “I’m a crap writer” and all in all, it was a horrible week, writing-wise.
Now, I have “Vega 2000 words” entry, I’m not telling myself I’m finishing the thing, [...]
Normally this doesn’t happen like this. Slacking away for 48 hours, doing everything from getting drunk to baking three sorts of cake for house guests without even considering sitting at the keyboard and writing something? That’s not me. (Getting drunk and baking cake is me, but not writing somewhere along the way isn’t.)
I guess I [...]
Who would have thought that I’ll obsess so much about a such a simple matter.
Namely, whether or not Vega should have sex with that guy she’s in love with and who is in love with her, although it all happens in their weird mage-style that never allows for real emotional closeness.
Well, I think that if [...]