I am in such an awesome mood this Sunday. I have been really living in a creative mindset lately. Focusing on my artwork. Focusing on my writing. Starting new projects. Keeping busy as I can. I worked on a few artistic projects today. Completely different styles and topics. It's interesting. I am working on a… Continue reading In a creative mindset
As you know if you read a few posts down, due to my health I had to close my larger chronic illness niche blog. It was just too hard to sustain with any consistency at all. Pretty much the same deal with everything really. But I didn't mention I haven't really been able to read… Continue reading I miss fiction writing
Trying out these cards called Fabula. They are designed to help writers physically map out their novels. I bought them while trying to hold off one of those narcoleptic like nap attacks during which sometimes I am sort of pretty much asleep and still doing things. So I don’t actually remember buying them. I do… Continue reading Fabula Cards
I have been focusing a great deal on my art right now. Mostly because I can't actually focus on much of anything. And I can just zone in on drawing. Long-COVID and my Work-In-Progress Novels I have two novels I am really into at the moment. I am completely inspired to write them. I have… Continue reading My focus is very specific right now
365 Questions, One Page Per Day: A One Year Self-Discovery Journal DAY 7: we are skipping to day 7 What has life been trying to tell you the past few years? Life has a way of telling me quite clearly that I have to just recover and get used to the idea of not working… Continue reading 365 days of questions:Â What is life saying
I haven't been able to write much on my current WIP during the pandemic. What has it been now? 5 years? 10? I lost track somewhere. I don't know who is writing this plotline but enough already! It is insanity we have stuffed into 2020 and already into 2021. This writer is clearly mad. Off… Continue reading New Year: Pandemic Episode II
It seems there is this idea Plotting and outlining are in some sense superior to the 'flying by the seat of your pants' method. But it isn't. It is Different but they are both methods that get you to the same place depending on your personality type. Pantser writing I know my character before I… Continue reading Writing: Being a Pantser. Not a Plotter
I have one NaNoWriMo for the 5th time out of 5 years. It was a bit closer this year due to being ill. Harder to get that word count in. So it was slow and steady wins the race instead of finishing mid-month. Two Works in Progress For this NaNo I had two half-finished WIPs… Continue reading NaNoWriMo for the win: two for the price of one
Okay so writing 50k in a month seems like and is insanity. But we do it because we are nutbars. But how do we stay at least a little sane? First analyze your actual level of sanity. Are you nutty nutty nutbars already? Then cool, it won't affect you at all. And if it does,… Continue reading How to survive NaNoWriMo sane
So I smoking a wee bit of pot to dampen a migraine. A I got stoned. And had a migraine. It is legal here for medicinal use and recreationally. I have chronic pain so I have from time to time tried it for pain. Migraines are iffy... they always are for every treatment and wouldn't… Continue reading Cannabis writing
I just finished my final edits on book 2 of the Alignment in time for Nano. Cutting it by a fine edge as well. NaNoWriMo as you might know is the writing month of November where a bunch of us nutty writers aim to write a novel (50k words) in a month. Or more. I… Continue reading Almost November: NaNoWriMo time!
We collect our tears because writer's tears are magical and can be used in various ways. If you don't collect your tears you should start. If you don't weep when you edit... well, you need to Edit Harder... and tears will happen. Writer's tear common uses Puting three, and Only three, drops into ones alcoholic… Continue reading Things writer’s tears are good for
So this thing on twitter how you should stop working and focus solely on your writing amused me. Because we all know some famous authors before they became famous who worked while they wrote. I think it has something to do with being able to actually live. I don't know. It is a theory. If… Continue reading Stop working and start writing
This is often seen in fantasy fiction. The Chosen One. So use it. Go with it. And here is a guideline on how to do that. Make them male Just going to put that out there. And often white. Make them a young, white, male. Farmboy or lowly servant Make them start from simple beginnings.… Continue reading Writing: How to write the Chosen One
There are a lot of exasperating posts like this. But I have come across the true path to being a 'real' writer. I know that is hard to believe. But it came to me in a dream, so it is true. Dreams never lie, you know. And I nailed every point on being a real… Continue reading How to be a really, real writer
And the war has continued since we were all told one space was now the thing to do. I keenly remember the effort it took to change manuscripts. And to learn to use that one space. And, man, it took some effort. But we were told a typewriter text is different than the designed ones… Continue reading Writing: Two spaces after the period? One?
Last day writing total for Nanowrimo: 91588 Words per day average: 3052 I enjoyed Nano this year. I thought I wouldn't be able to do it with all these vestibular symptoms lately. In particular the constant dizziness and spaced out feeling. But I wrote after my morning and afternoon meds kicked in and got into… Continue reading And so it is: NaNoWriMo is over for the year
So I have a few primary chronic illnesses and a few miscellaneous ones that currently make me unable to work. Fibromyalgia Chronic migraines, that are pretty much daily with a break here and there An unknown vestibular disorder that I have had for over a year now and still getting answers Major Depressive Disorder that… Continue reading The disabled writer
I found this prompt: Write about something you are currently having a problem with. So I do live with some suckiness on a daily basis So I have chronic pain. Via Chronic migraines and Fibromyalgia. And that is something I have had a problem with and struggled with for more than twenty years. Sometimes I… Continue reading Blogtober: Write about something you are having a problem with
So when I was younger I wrote a lot. Stories. Short novels. Flash fiction. And I was told I was pretty good at it. BUT then was told you'll never make money at it and it is a useless thing to pursue. And that is the thing about people, they don't get why we… Continue reading Blogtober: Worst writing advice
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