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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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Summer Writing Goals

Summer is HERE !

Or do I mean heatwave after heatwave (many thanks to the brain behind air conditioning)?

Anyhoudelidou…

Fellow writers, here’s the June 2020 writing news: I finished the first draft of a novel. I wrote a book! High five to me!

It’s very exciting and I’m proud to have persevered, but there’s work left to do, in order to have a polished, presentable, sale-able novel by the end of July, at the very latest.

I also want to start rough drafting another MG novel, a fantasy one (no surprise here, Fantasy is my favorite genre and the one have been writing in for… ever!). I want it to be a totally fun medieval fantasy novel, with some magic and romance and mystery. Ha, I can’t wait !!

However, fellow writers…

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