What's On Your Mind About Your Writing?

lalyil · Jun 17, 2013

Just finished a quick edit with my editor/partner/bff of all the scenes I wrote in the last month. I was extremely insecure before and now I feel great

I also added a scene where my antagonist reads a philosophical book I haven't read in its entirely myself, what I did know of it seemed fitting.. Then after adding that I researched said book and it seems to be literally about my story. I'm quite shocked right now but how well it connects.

triceretops · Jun 17, 2013

CL_Hilbert said:
I keep getting short-listed, but rarely make the cut. Something's missing in my writing; I just don't know what. :/

Don't feel bad. I rarely get an R&R request and I sure think some of my books warrant it.

tri

KPLanyon · Jun 18, 2013

Stop browsing AW and get back to work.

Atalanta · Jun 18, 2013

KPLanyon said:
Stop browsing AW and get back to work.

But I've finished my work. AW is my reward.

I took a few days to work on an outline, then a stepsheet, but it wasn't really coming together so I decided to wait for inspiration -- then I got tired of waiting and wrote anyway. Maybe inspiration will come while I'm typing...

MakanJuu · Jun 18, 2013

I don't know what the hell it is...

I'm 85 pages in & just starting chapter 10, yet the last book I read hit Chapter nine at page 88. So, I checked a shorter book &, lo and behold, that one was midway through Chapter 8 at the same time! I used to be ahead of it! Bastards...

Either way, I hope my story ends up being decent length by the end. Maybe my chapters are just short? At that rate, my book(s) might be a bit more marketable, that way...

NikiK · Jun 18, 2013

I think I figured out why Chapter Eighteen is kicking my butt. It's more character based than plot based and I suck at characterization. But I think I went in the right direction with it, even though it's going to mess up my plotting to the end of the book. On the bright side, I passed the 60,000 word milestone today, so feeling good about that.

>compass< · Jun 18, 2013

I feel pendular, swinging between "THIS IS SO BRILLIANT" to "THIS IS THE WORST" and back.

triceretops · Jun 18, 2013

I've pushed ahead. Carefully. Experimentally.

JustinlDew · Jun 18, 2013

Switching back to scrivener..

buz · Jun 19, 2013

Questioning everything. Style. Voice. Story. Character. On all manuscripts and stories and every dumb thing I've ever written.

Feeling kind of stupid about everything.

Urf. Kind of want to crawl away and wait to get smarter so I can eventually do something worth a damn.

...but then, I'm super pissy lately anyway...

Reevaluations are best done with a brain that has been scraped of the whitened turds encrusted upon it...

WriteMinded · Jun 19, 2013

MakanJuu said:
I don't know what the hell it is...

I'm 85 pages in & just starting chapter 10, yet the last book I read hit Chapter nine at page 88. So, I checked a shorter book &, lo and behold, that one was midway through Chapter 8 at the same time! I used to be ahead of it! Bastards...

Either way, I hope my story ends up being decent length by the end. Maybe my chapters are just short? At that rate, my book(s) might be a bit more marketable, that way...

It doesn't matter how many chapters are in your book, and it doesn't matter how long they are. Stop counting.

Nekko · Jun 19, 2013

>compass< said:
I feel pendular, swinging between "THIS IS SO BRILLIANT" to "THIS IS THE WORST" and back.

I am so there ^^^^^

Atalanta · Jun 19, 2013

NikiK said:
On the bright side, I passed the 60,000 word milestone today, so feeling good about that.

Congrats!

I don't know how many words I wrote today (my word counts are always so small lately I generally avoid counting) but I finally surpassed what I had before I foolishly cut out over 5k while I was depressed. And to my surprise, the narrative is actually working. I'm going full-on NaNo style -- zero editing allowed -- so maybe that's helping.

ONWARD!

Chris P · Jun 19, 2013

I found a way to meld two characters together and tighten things up a bit. But I'm giving the book (first draft done) more time to incubate before I get back to writing.

Putputt · Jun 19, 2013

I'm excited about a possible upcoming writing project, but nothing's confirmed yet, and won't be for a couple of weeks...but if it all works out, holy hell, I'm gonna cream myself.

Raindrop · Jun 19, 2013

72 words tonight. I suck!

kkbe · Jun 19, 2013

Raindrop said:
72 words tonight. I suck!

72 more than you had this morning, Raindrop. Better than a stick in the eye, right?

<-- he should know

MakanJuu · Jun 19, 2013

Repeating what I just proudly posted on Facebook- 90 pages in and less than 900 words away from the 50,000 word mark!

Woo! Can't wait to really get going! I promised myself I'd have a manuscript done by the end of the year. Six months in & less than 100 pages? I might not make what I'd originally had in mind, but I'll be cutting pretty close and that's alright with me. I plan to have this thing queried & sold as of 2015, no exceptions, damn it!

Renée A. Price · Jun 20, 2013

Got a brutal feedback. It hurt, but helpful!

SianaBlackwood · Jun 20, 2013

kkbe said:
Better than a stick in the eye, right? <-- he should know

I've always felt sorry for that guy.

Nekko · Jun 20, 2013

Renée A. Price said:
Got a brutal feedback. It hurt, but helpful!

Ooph, those are always tough - even when I think my skin's toughened up. I'm glad at least you found it helpful.

Felt so excited about my idea for a new book, had two good days, and now I'm completely stuck. Argh. Time to write a bunch of drivel and see if any worthwhile ideas happen to fall out of the pockets.

scarecrow · Jun 20, 2013

I spent days writing a query and set it aside. I just went back to it and discovered that somehow it had been overwritten with a link to the carton network. (I love my children!) I pulled the backup off my thumb drive and somehow yes that contained the same link. I have no other copies and can't remember what I wrote. Back to square one.

Atalanta · Jun 20, 2013

scarecrow said:
I spent days writing a query and set it aside. I just went back to it and discovered that somehow it had been overwritten with a link to the carton network.

Was the link perhaps pointing to a cartoon about... squirrels? If so, perhaps the ones in QLH got to it first.

Anywho, wrote 1,212 words today. It's been so long since I wrote that much it almost scares me. I always hate this part of recovering from depression because I inevitably realize I'll be back there someday, unable to write at all, and it makes me feel like I'm trying to write a novel while staring at my own grave.

Erm. Sorry for that downer. Uhh... :gone:

SomethingOrOther · Jun 20, 2013

I'm pretty good at dumping valuable writing time into the all-important tasks of aimless websurfing & forum-refreshing. And the perverse thing about it: none of this silly-dallying is ever more fun than writing. It isn't even fun. It can be pretty boring, actually.

BUT NO MORE. I'LL START USING MY TIME MORE WISELY. YYYYYEAAHHAAHJHAAJHJAHJHAJHAJHA~~~!~~~!!

Raindrop · Jun 20, 2013

kkbe said:
72 more than you had this morning, Raindrop. Better than a stick in the eye, right? <-- he should know

Yep! And 208 words more today! Still not a Formula 1, but I had a horrible week at work. Get-me-out-of-there type of horrible. So yessss. 72 is good. 208 is so good, it's like watermelon on a hot day.

scarecrow said:
I spent days writing a query and set it aside. I just went back to it and discovered that somehow it had been overwritten with a link to the carton network. (I love my children!) I pulled the backup off my thumb drive and somehow yes that contained the same link. I have no other copies and can't remember what I wrote. Back to square one.

Oops!!! The new query will be better.

What's On Your Mind About Your Writing?

The Lukewarm

Learning to Swim

Bring me a knitting needle.

A little off kilter

Shortest Query Winner.

can't stop hemorrhaging emojis

Derailed

Back to purring

Bring me a knitting needle.

Likes metaphors mixed, not stirred

permanently suctioned to Buz's leg

Huh.

Back to purring

If I only had a brain...

Bring me a knitting needle.

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