Daily Notes

It’s so nice to be writing again! Sometimes I forget how much I enjoy it, especially whenever I enter a period of self-doubt, but whenever I return to writing after a few days off, I am always reminded of how much I actually love it.  After today’s writing session I still feel like what I’m…

I’m on holiday right now, which is great. But this also means that my usual routine has been completely uprooted, which has really affected my writing. In fact, in the entirety of last week, I only managed to get one writing session in… In a way I’m proud of myself for having made the time…

A new challenge has arisen. Since Sunday, and for the next two weeks, I’ll be traveling, which means that my writing routine has been completely turned upside down…  Normally my writing routine looks something like this: Wake up, walk my dogs, exercise, and then write for a minimum of one hour. But at the present…

I read a quote from Stephen King once. In it he said that a good novelist doesn’t make their characters do what they want them to, but rather they follow the characters and write down what they see them do. He says that a good novelist isn’t a god creating everything, but rather a secretary…

I started my writing session by transcribing everything I had written longhand yesterday. When everything was digitalized, I was positively surprised to discover that I had written a little over one thousand words yesterday. The act of transcribing in itself had a very positive effect on me, because by reading everything I had written the…

I wrote longhand today. I did so because I found myself procrastinating this morning, having serious trouble getting myself started, and as I’ve mentioned in a previous post, sometimes writing longhand can get the writing inspiration to kick in. But in all honesty, I didn’t think I was going to get much done today. I…

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…