Diary of a new writing project. Day 37-38: Shifting writing routine

It is a lovely office.

And these days, I can’t sit there.

This week’s word count goal: 32 500 words
Day 37: 21 303 words
Day 38: 22 175 words

Day 37: writing before dawn

My dear laptop friend is actually a borrowed one.

It belongs to my hubby-to-be. He doesn’t need it often, except when he does. And when he does, I have to use the old noisy PC stuck in a corner of his not-so-big office.

So, I woke up early (I am use to it, kiddo is very early bird) and wrote a bunch.

I was happy with the results and was looking forward to the evening writing session.
After putting the kiddo to bed, I should have taken my bottom back in that office and finish what I worked on earlier.

Oh dear how that did not happen!

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Diary of a new writing project. Day 36: Backstories forever

I always start a new writing project by writing a rough backstory for each of the main characters.
With this project though, I went deeper and wrote way more detailed backstories.

This week’s word count goal: 32 500 words
Word count so far: 20 764 words

Something very funny happened with this story.

Turns out I wrote a good chunk of the middle of the book first.

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Writing a novel: On Fantasy

I recently went back to an old fantasy novel draft (I’m trying hard to make it a stand-alone; very hard…) and, as I now do before working on a novel, try to sell it first.
I hit a problem: the many sub-genres of literary Fantasy.

The marketing of books created many, many sub-genres for genres fiction in general, and for literary Fantasy especially.

I recently went back to a old fantasy novel draft (I’m trying hard to make it a stand alone; very hard…) and, as I now do before working on a novel, try to sell it first.
I hit a problem: the many sub-genres of literary Fantasy.

Suddenly, I was not writing a Fantasy novel anymore. I was writing… what exactly?

I was at lost. Ends a bit of research on the topic.

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