Another writing day, and another thousand words. Little by little the story advances. It’s on days like today when I am reminded of how much work is behind every single one of the books I love to read. So “chapeau” and a huge thank you to all you writers out there putting in the work […]
Another successful writing day completed. I started by transcribing what I wrote longhand yesterday, and this exercise really got me into the mood of writing, and by the time I had finished transcribing everything, my fingers simply continued on typing. I ended up typing a little under a thousand words today. For the past few
I’m back! I didn’t manage to write my daily posts this weekend, but today I’m finally getting back to it. Don’t worry though, even though I didn’t write my daily posts, I still worked on my novel every day. Saturday I had a really great writing session. I was super inspired and the words just
I have so much to say about today’s writing session. Today was one of those that made me feel like I’ve made a breakthrough in my knowledge of myself and how I function. (Sometimes I make the same breakthrough more than once, but every time it feels like a total mind blowing revelation.) First of
Today was an off day for me. I made the big mistake of doing research before getting my daily writing done. I don’t usually allow myself to do that because I know that I have a tendency to fall into a research spiral, and then be overwhelmed, and then not write anything. And that’s exactly
I don’t have much to say about today’s writing session. It was neither good, nor bad. It wasn’t especially easy, nor was it especially hard. It simply was a very standard writing session. What I can say is that, after having completed my minimum required writing for the day, I allowed myself to enter research
I’m learning more and more that, especially on the days when I feel stuck and don’t feel like writing, I should push through. Today I was stuck… I knew the general direction of where I wanted the story to go, but I was missing clarity in some key events that are, I believe, core motivators
Today I spent most of my writing session writing longhand. I didn’t get any new scenes done, but instead I invested my time and energy working out a few very important answers for my main character. They may have seemed like basic “why” and “how” questions, but in the end they turned out to be
I just had an amazing writing session! I picked up right where I left off yesterday, and the same scene that I was struggling with so much only 24 hours earlier, today it just flowed out of me so easily. I felt fully immersed in the story and I just wanted to know more! You