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Works in progress.
As of yesterday, I'm setting a 1k words per day goal for myself at least for the short term on a novel-length story working-titled Black Swan that I started a while back and haven't been able to get into. I've been waiting for the material to 'gel' because I haven't had a good feel for the story, despite knowing the most major events beginning to end. I keep telling myself I don't know the tone, I don't know the voice to write this in. Then, of course, once I pull my head out and sit down and actually work on it I discover that I really do. It won't, of course, be perfect the first time... there will be issues with structure and consistency but that's obvious. In addition, that doesn't scare me. I wrote 1,088 last night before I went to sleep. We'll see what it looks like after a week or two of this and a review of the work I did a year and a half or two years ago or whenever.
Also, I've gotten to reading a little bit of writing advice every morning. There's an excellent Twitter feed (http://www.twitter.com/BubbleCow) that aggregates articles for writers on a variety of subjects including editing/revising, publishing, and marketing your work. The intentions are three fold. One, I'm new at this. I've never had to go beyond the process of simply finishing the story before. Not to any great depth, anyway; I've finished work so rarely. I'm getting better at that now, I've gathered enough understanding of my own process that I'm no longer daunted by the simple fact of having to get something written in the first place. There are so many steps after that, though, that I start to feel a little lost. Secondly, I'm hoping (and trust me when I say I know well enough not to take anything someone decided to throw up on a blog as gospel, no matter how successful they are) I can orient myself within my own workflow. All these things, all these steps. Some of them obviously have to be done before others but in general I aim to get a handle on a process that works for me, in the present. Thirdly, in the endeavor to make Halflit a more useful place for writers (and possibly artists of other breeds?), I'd like to start building a database of well-annotated resources that can be added to by the community.
Every little bit counts, I say. Now, off to work! It's Labor Day, right? Isn't that what I'm supposed to do?
Also, I've gotten to reading a little bit of writing advice every morning. There's an excellent Twitter feed (http://www.twitter.com/BubbleCow) that aggregates articles for writers on a variety of subjects including editing/revising, publishing, and marketing your work. The intentions are three fold. One, I'm new at this. I've never had to go beyond the process of simply finishing the story before. Not to any great depth, anyway; I've finished work so rarely. I'm getting better at that now, I've gathered enough understanding of my own process that I'm no longer daunted by the simple fact of having to get something written in the first place. There are so many steps after that, though, that I start to feel a little lost. Secondly, I'm hoping (and trust me when I say I know well enough not to take anything someone decided to throw up on a blog as gospel, no matter how successful they are) I can orient myself within my own workflow. All these things, all these steps. Some of them obviously have to be done before others but in general I aim to get a handle on a process that works for me, in the present. Thirdly, in the endeavor to make Halflit a more useful place for writers (and possibly artists of other breeds?), I'd like to start building a database of well-annotated resources that can be added to by the community.
Every little bit counts, I say. Now, off to work! It's Labor Day, right? Isn't that what I'm supposed to do?
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The only bit I can offer here is this: Don't get too bogged down in the business of writing. That's the number one stopper of creative flow for me. Maybe you're different, which would be so cool for you LOL, but just in case, maybe pay attention to how it affects you? Haha 2:30 am run-on sentences FTW! XD