Catégorie : Writing project

Diary of a new writing project. Day 11: Rainy writing day

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… … … … …

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.

Thanks for reading this post. Feel free to show your support by buying a ko-fi to this crazy Writer on a Quest.
Until next time!

Diary of a new writing project. Day 10: dig

Today, on my way to daycare, I spotted a archaeological dig. Sort of.

Word count goal for the week: 7 500 words
Word count so far: 4 309

A writing diary is about a writer’s progress with a novel. What is there to improve, change; maybe write about characters arc, story beats.

And write about the inspiring things real life provides sometimes. Today, on my way to daycare, I spotted a archaeological dig. Sort of.

See, in my very small town, there was an old house at the corner of a round-about. Apparently, it once belong to a important figure of the Patriotes movement, a group dedicated to kick the British out of the country. The conflict happened in 1837-1838. The Patriotes lost, some of them were hanged, it was a big deal for the time.
Anyway, this centenary house (can you say that in English?) was destroyed without so much as a warning, out of the blue, order of the Mayor at the time, who always swore the small town would save it from its horrible state – we was forced to quit soon after that.
Scandal! Destroying history like that, without saying a word, after promising to save it! It made the news all over the province.


A big hole surrounded by a cheap gate and angry citizens were all that was left.
Politicians said they would ask archaeologists to analyse the site, which will become… a park maybe (I’ll keep you posted 😉 ).
So today, when I saw actual archaeologists digging on the side of the very big hole, I thought it would be fun if they find something… improbable.

Better yet, what if archaeologist students were to find a improbable something? What that improbable something could raise all the poor souls who drown in the small river basin near by?

Right now, I don’t think I can use those « if’s » in the current YA-WIP.
But a crazy writer on a quest never knows…!

Diary of a new writing project. Day 9: writing in a office

I am also trying something new, for my own sanity, and for the sake of getting through the first draft (or draft zero, if you’re more familiar with that term).

Word count goal for the week: 7 500 words
Word count so far: 3 336 words

I spent the entire day on a office chair. Most of it anyway.
What I really mean to say my butt hurt, my eyes are burning, twinkle twinkle little star is stuck in my head and I just want to go to bed, watch Ghostbusters again (it is the season after all) and call it a night.
But here I am, keeping up with that writing diary project, simply hoping it will be useful to someone.

Changing up the writing routine was not has dreadful as I feared it would be. I couldn’t work on the YA-WIP as much I would have like to, but still, I wrote more than I thought. All thanks to the tips I picked up in one of Chris Fox craft books.
I clear the distractions, Internet included this time, put in some white noise – a show I know by heart – and sprint-write my way through chapter 2.

I am also trying something new, for my own sanity, and for the sake of getting through the first draft (or draft zero, if you’re more familiar with that term).
I will neither revise nor edit until I reach 25 000 words.

Why revise or edit something I might trash anyway? Because it helps me with the story structure, the characters arcs; in one word, it helps with the general flow of it all. Plus, I love working on the writing, on how I can make this description shorter, or more to the point. I keep an eye on repetitive words or turn of phrase, hoping I won’t have to write too many drafts before the novel is ready to send to the publishers (where I live, no literary agent; query is addressed directly to the publishers).

Time for a chocolate pudding. Nope, I didn’t quiet reach the word count goal for today. But close enough for a chocolate pudding.