Catégorie : Writing project

This week writing goal: 15 000 words
Word count so far: 6 557

I love writing. I love writing novels even more.

Yes, it is difficult to write a novel. Sometimes, I get or lazy or stuck, or downright frustrated. And when those rejections letters hit… aie aie aie!

Still, writing novel is my life, the one thing I feel really confident about, even though I have not been published yet. I work hard to better my writing craft and I always learn.

One thing I really, really love writing is the meet-cute scene. I get all giggly and excited and ultra cheesy.

And today in Ya-Wip, it was time to write meet-cute moment. Hooray! I wrote, wrote, wrote, stopped to look up a detailed (it bugs me to leave a note; I need on-the-spot accuracy or back-up proof, or I froze) and while doing so, stumbled upon some writing tips about story beats.
Of course, doubt rosed its hands.
It’s too soon, isn’t it? Yes? No? Since it’s not a romance, since the focus is on long-gone friendship reconquered through weird, fun, sort of spooky times?
I looked up the tossed away outline I wrote. Turns out I did planed the meet-cute way later in the story.
But the story I am writing now is already taking a different path then the outline – that feels like a creative writing class homework now.
In this rough version, it definitely makes more sense for that meet-cute to happen right after the inciting incident.
I think the intro will have to change a little.

Sooo, I am left tonight with this interesting dilemma: should I just re-write the intro right away or should I move forward with the story?

The decision will have to await the rise of a new day. I got yet another 4:30am Peppa Pig wake up call this morning, and it has been a long work-chores day.

Word count goal for the week: 7 500 words
Word count this week: 5 356 words

Week-ends are always busy around here. Especially during the fall.
And extra especially since we had a wonderful kiddo!

There’s always an activity of some kind to go to, or to get ready for; birthday party’s; apple/pumpkin picking; Thanksgiving (it happens in October here).
It is fun… and down right exhausting.

I am not even trying to write during the week-ends anymore. If I can squeeze it in, awesome. If not, no guilt-trip. Even if that’s means I won’t be able to reach my word count goal for this week.

The perks of being your own writer boss 😉

Thanks for reading this post, writer friends.
Until next time!

Word count goal for the week: 7 500 words
Word count so far: 5 316 words

It was cold and rainy, lovely day today.
A day with no paying work deadline, no chores that couldn’t be postponed.

The perfect day for writing, like, you know, like 10 000 words, plus a scene involving some ghosts action!

Pouha ha ha…prout prout proooouuuuut.

Rainy writing day fail

I did manage, somehow, in between all the wasted hours spend on Internet « researching » – there, I said it, and in quotation marks too -, to wrote, at the very least., chapter 3 today.
Oh geez, did it took me a long while to girl up though, stop goofing around and actually write the lovely thing.

Funny too I kinda procrastinated about writing that chapter, since its (at this stage anyway) the inciting incident, where the beloved normal world of Main Character takes a hard punch in the guts.
Its all fun and more fun, action, big emotions. Main character is going through the « what the f*** is this » phase. Its awesome!
And yet…

And yet, it is all about a new beat. A new phase in my own little writer life.

I used to write very late at night, or very early in the morning, depending on what kind of job I had at the time (I did work a wide range of different low-pay jobs in the past twenty years).
So, when I have time during the day, my instinct is to start writing as soon as possible, as I once did. Long before that strange, yet, still new to me somehow *not-single – not-married – with-a-kid* life I’m living.

I have to face the facts: the writing routine of the past is not working no more. Time to embrace a new beat. And, so far, it’s working good.

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Until next time!