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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On public transportation, it seems that working on a netbook is the best choice (because it’s easy to prop it on my bag and I can forget about the fact that I’m in a tram until somebody starts leaning over my shoulder and begging me to type faster because he has to get off soon… [...]

I have written novels before, but never before have I had the ending to tie together so smoothly. Usually, I just discarded the lesser threads along the way, assuming they weren’t important enough, or ended with a protagonist deciding he didn’t care about anything else than a single problem he was having, something in that [...]

Yesterday, after doing my 1K (and moving the aquarium and flowers to my new apartment) I stole some pleasure time with a Moleskine notebook and a real fountain pen. Writing a story this way is definitely different from writing on computer. For one thing, I can comfortably jot down a sentence or two in the [...]

I’m sorry for the long hiatus in this blog – it’s just now that I’ve somewhat regained my senses after moving and the computers (including the server) are back online. For three days, I didn’t write a word. Now I’m thinking that probably I should have because technically, I had the time even if not [...]

I might steal a minute here and there, but generally this week is closed for writing officially. I did my 500+ words today, ended chapter 14, with only two chapters left (but I wouldn’t be surprised if they would turn out to be three. This weekend will be crazy busy with moving, buying stuff and [...]