Daily Notes

Day thirty-seven of the writing streak & 85.000 words! Thanks to yesterday’s “breakthrough”, I spent a big chunk of today’s writing session working on lore and worldbuilding for my story. That’s because yesterday I actually added a new “species” to my novel, and now I had to make sure that they fit into the world…

Day thirty-six of the writing streak I really want to reach the point at which I can finally say that the first draft of my novel is done, but before I can do that I really feel like I need to figure out this subplot that I’ve been working on for the past few days.…

Day thirty-five of the writing streak Some of the effects of yesterday’s “bad day” stuck with me today as well, but I did my best to push ahead anyway.  When I sat down to write I wondered if my thoughts of yesterday were right and that my first draft is truly done. For a moment…

Day thirty-four of the writing streak Today was a bad day. Actually, it’s been a bad week. But I think that today was just the last straw. Don’t worry, nothing major happened, but it was one of those weeks during which so many things go wrong, and absolutely nothing goes right – with the only…

Day thirty-three of the writing streak I got a big fright today. The reason for it is that when I opened my Scrivener document, it indicated that I was underneath the 80.000 word count, even though I KNOW that yesterday I passed it by about a hundred words. And then, when I checked the last…

Day thirty-two of the writing streak & 80.000 words! I did it! I reached 80.000 words today! Yuhuuu!! This was the goal I had set for myself for this month, and I’m super proud of myself for reaching it. I also feel a little bit astonished to have reached this point because, for me, this…

Day thirty-one of the writing streak Today’s and yesterday’s main focus for me was to work on something rather important: the overall plot structure for the novel. I know it’s something that many people generally work on first, before nearly reaching the end of their novel, but the thing is that for this story, what…

Day thirty of the writing streak Today is day thirty of my writing streak. I would never have expected for it to go so long when I set myself a one-week-challenge a month ago. But here we are today, thirty days in, and I don’t have the intention to stop any time soon. As you…

Day twenty-nine of the writing streak I went to the cinema today to watch “The Odyssey”. I rarely go to the cinema, in general my average is once every couple of years. The funny thing is that every time I went in the last six years or so, I always came out of the screening…

Day twenty-eight of the writing streak I know I’m really close to the ending of this first draft. It feels like the ending is just around the next corner. And yet, I also know that I am missing something, something important. I’m missing something that’s supposed to happen right before the final scene. I am…