As I think I’ve mentioned, I’ve been feeling stuck. Tonight, I unstuck. I have the next four days off. I’ve challenged myself to add another 10,000 words to the novel by the time I go back to the day job. I decided to go back to my old process tonight, that is, writing everything out
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This afternoon while I was walking I finally figured out why I’ve been unable to make forward progress in the novel, why I’ve been stuck rewriting. On the one hand, I’m frustrated that it’s taken me so long to make this connection. I’ve been stuck for close to three weeks now. On the other hand,
I don’t get writer’s block. I really don’t. I do, however, get stalled now and again. Like now. Did I write a 2500 word short story this weekend instead of working on the novel? That would be a yes. See — stalled. Not blocked. Can still write. So tonight I’m going to spend more time
The process for writing this novel is of course different than any novel I’ve written before this. A huge part of that is due to the fact that I wrote out a proposal for this novel, before I wrote the novel. Sometimes I do a brief outline — the proposal had a lot more information
Back in 2005, my life imploded. I stopped writing for a while, about two years, actually. When I started writing again, I completely changed my process. I got myself back into writing by doing writing prompts. I would write by hand, and when I started doing fiction, would then type it up. For Clockwork Kingdom
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I picked up my keys this morning. Kept grinning because I couldn’t believe it — I’m here! I’m going to be living here! In this amazing, oh so special city! I did allow myself a purchase today — my first pair of replacement earrings. I’d felt so naked without any earrings. They were expensive, but
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During the end of the six week challenge, as well as immediately afterward, I felt as though I’d lowered the level of water in the old creative well. I didn’t drain it — water was still in the well, if I’d needed it, I could have gone deep enough to get at it. But it
I don’t know how much progress I’ve made this week. I think I’ve done 9000 words. We’re flying out today, and I always write in airports, so I think I’ll be close. I haven’t typed any of it yet, which is one of the reasons why I’m uncertain of the word count. This would be
After I finished writing yesterday, I figured out that one scene that I’d summarized in a paragraph really needed to be written out — about 1200 words. Wrote that tonight. So here’s the official word count. I’m not where I wanted to be — wanted to write the first 2000 words of chapter eleven tonight.
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–I’m currently at 35,965 words. This means I only have another 4000 to go for this weekend. I need to write chapter ten, basically. I need to plot out chapter ten first, however. Always helps if I have a clue about what I’m supposed to be writing. –While outlining chapter nine, I realized that the
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