This morning, I looked at my Virgin file. Due to untimely shutdown, my last scene and most of the next-of-the-last scene were gone. I looked at the single sentence hanging, and thought, yes, this is the whole scene, 12 words. That’s it. There’s everything I need for this scene.
Then, during the day, I received two [...]
I just came home from a loooong night out. I hadn’t done any writing, nothing useful at all (blame Michael Crichton). So under three beers and something-dunno-what, I’m staggering to the car, and my husband says, how much can you do? Can you do ten words? Ten-and-a-half? Can you do half of a word?
And I [...]
Last week was one of the busiest, most stressful weeks ever. I still managed to get my writing done and accumulated 3K words for Virgin, as well as got some editing done (acceptable amount).
Last week was also when we launched a social project in Latvia, one that proclamates 2010 as The Reading Year. At some [...]
Today, for the first time in a long long while, I got the kicks out of writing. Finally (after 7K words), I led my protagonist to really really hate me. Well, not me, but the people and the culture I created.
She is, it seems, very resistant to pressure. She can take it, for a long [...]
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 [...]
Since writing The Virgin hasn’t been easy (considering that I’m editing on the side etc., probably that’s understandable), so I needed a little nasty whip to urge me on. Hence the nice little “250 word challenge” widget from Inkygirl.
For the record – I’ve written 400+ words yesterday and 500+ words today (edit: Whoa, I just [...]
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 [...]
Now, cool. I’ve had a fine first scene, and today I struggled to get the second on page, but, while writing is still enjoyable, the forcing myself to write part is a horror. I suspect it’s because of two things: I’ve gotten darn lazy, and I’m still editing Vega (so for every scene write, I [...]
Whenever I’m actively writing I am having those wild dreams that boggle my mind as much as actual writing does. So after having one of those horrible, guild-ridden dreams tonight, I woke up with a “I’m writing today” thought I didn’t even question. (Not that I really wanted to question it.)
So I did my 500+ [...]
My idea to have a first draft before any serious worldbuilding is working out nicely. Well, it isn’t technically a “first draft”, it is, so far, unattached semi-scenes, more of a setup than a reality, glimpses into the world. However, I’m writing 300 words a day average (well, at least I should be writing; I [...]