The re-write of Planes Shifter is going surprisingly well. I’ve written at least 429 words a day for 46 days in a row now. That’s 19,700 words. And in reality, as I often go over the minimum; I’ve written 32,522. – I …
Growing as a Writer: Trying Old Things
In the last 30 days, I’ve written 23,000 words. For a non-NaNo month, that’s pretty good going. I made a commitment, “just for a while” to write every day – like with NaNoWriMo, but on a smaller scale. I picked …
April Update: Goals
It’s May! Happy Beltain! At the beginning of the year I set myself four goals: track my daily wordcount, write a minimum of once a week, “sort out” Resilience, and submit my manuscript to someone by July 1st. April is …
Story Structure Tools
Sometimes writers fall into trappings of their own enthusiasm (see also: madness). With this being something like my seventh major re-write of Planes Shifter, I’m trying not to make the same mistakes as my last draft. If I’m going to …
March Update: Goals
At the beginning of the year I set myself four goals: track my daily wordcount, write a minimum of once a week, “sort out” Resilience, and submit my manuscript to someone by July 1st. March is coming to an end, and …
Trusting the Flow
I’m re-writing the beginning of Planes Shifter from scratch. I’m checking and re-checking my five main sub-plots to ensure I don’t veer off too far from them this time. But this is almost like a new story without those extra plot-hole-fillers I’d added …