Daily Notes

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…

Wow, today was weird. The moment I opened my Scrivener document, I knew exactly what I wanted to write about, but as soon as I began actually writing it, the idea became all foggy… I tried to push through and I managed to get a few words down on the page, but honestly I don’t…

Another day of writing completed; how exciting! Today it was much easier for me to enter into a writing mode. I didn’t stare at a blank page on my screen for as long as I did yesterday. The difference between today and yesterday is that today I remembered a trick that I occasionally used in…

I recently reached the 20.000 word mark and although this is exciting, it’s also kind of scary since this is generally the time when I start to doubt my work and whether or not it’s any good or not. Sadly, I have never managed to reach the 25.000 word mark so far, and even though…