ieva melgalve

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 [...]

So the last post left me & The Virgin in a rough-rough idea state, with a vague impression of a protagonist and magic system. The next day, I jotted down very simple bulletpoint lists about the protagonist and magic system (known things and possible spin-off ideas, noted as “weird stuff”–the places where the gray areas [...]

More than a week ago, I was putting the lil one to sleep, both of us dozing off, her hands in mine, and I thought–this is the feeling I want to write about. Then I thought–what if it wasn’t even my child, and the feeling remained? What if I pretended to be her mother? Now [...]

I’m working steadily on my NaNoWriMo novel, and here’s one thing that I think I have learned from writing Vega: I am less afraid to confront my characters with the reality of my novel’s world. I think that I myself am always a bit reluctant to press on the reality, question it, study it harder. [...]

800+ words written in Vega and some things scribbled down for world-building because I suddenly needed laws and punishments for mages. I made them laughably simple though (as in fifth and final law: “Do not fail when killing another mage”). I also did some beautiful language stuff on Keir. Somehow, I’m not that interested in [...]

600+ words today, and I’m well over my weekly goal already (still having Saturday and Sunday to go). I am going to do some work on Keir today and perhaps write later in the evening when I have figured out what exactly to write. I am uncertain whether I’m running bloody short or bloody long [...]

I’m at some breathtaking point in my writing where I feel my head spinning and for the third day in a row, I’m promising myself not to write today and give myself a break. Yea right. Well, zero words written this far. However what I promised myself was doing some outlining and some rounding-up of [...]