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So, it seems that I have a new “not-quite-nosebleed” wordcount for a day, namely, 1K words on a working day. (Given that I’m not miserably stuck, that I’m not using my writing time to work on a short story, and I’m distracted some other way… but then, I can grab 20 minutes or so in [...]

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 [...]

This has been a long and exhausting week and miraculously, I got a lot of writing done, and the amount of NaNo planning that makes it possible to get to actual outlining soon. Today, NaNo thing surprised me too, because it seems that the novel I started pondering on as “light, funny and easy to [...]

Yesterday, I got that brilliant new idea on a non-fiction e-book. (All ideas are brilliant in the first two days. They HAVE to be, or they’re not really ideas.) Now, I’m trying to figure out when and how I will write it. Luckily, right now I am so busy with Vega (I’ve been doing 1000 [...]

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 [...]

I am currently working on two things simultaneously, a short story and a novel. That’s my new way of getting past writer’s block (at least to the point where it becomes intolerable): writing something else that I have to write anyway. I’m approaching a difficult point in my novel, a point that also marks the [...]

Yesterday, I typed 900+ words which, I think, burned me out a bit (well, that and the three beers I had with a good friend), so no words today on Vega. I did a paid review that I was quite happy with and the publisher too. She asked to rewrite some of the expressions though, [...]

On Monday, 1000+ words. Today, 800+ words. I really have to get myself together to write all the stuff I’ve intended to do until November (including writing three new stories to stack up in the queue, since I won’t have the time to write anything else during NaNoWriMo). Also, next time I have to schedule [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]