Auteur : Marie Alice

Writing away and reading books. Joy! Écrire à tout vent et lire des romans. Joie!

Weekly Writing Diary: Writing Slump

Monday, Day 37

You know that nagging feeling, fellow writers?

That feeling of forgetting something you promised yourself you weren’t gonna forget?

In front of the ex-YA project revision, or surrounded by the handwritten (so far) MG Fantasy project, I keep… doing something else. Like trying to write a post, erase it, try again only to erase it again.

At some point, I stopped everything and forced myself to understand what the heck was my problem today.

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Weekly Writing Diary: Dreams and Nightmares in Writer Wonderland

Monday, Day 30

Dreams.

Fellow writers, is your writing influenced by your dreams?

The whole YA paranormal novel comes from a dream I still can remember with such clarity, it’s crazy!

Me dreams have been busy last night. There was people from the past. From movies I love. A funny scene with one of my favorite movie director.

Also.

A very dear friend who past away, sitting outside in a chair, surrounded by twilight. People busy prepping a party.

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Weekly Writing Diary: The Tides of Imagination

Monday, Day 23

What feeds the creative writing words?

It may change from writer to writer, but there’s some common ground.

Can one be a stay-at-home parent and keep the creative writing in a healthy state?
The answer is fudgingadoodle yeah, of course !

But you do get yourself in some kind of a bubble. And that bubble, a tiny world itself, may affect the creativity, may narrow the writing horizons.

Anyway…

I was able to tackle so much work today, despite the fact that kiddo was with me all the time, and had a very short nap.

Let’s hope it’s a good omen for the coming writing week !

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