Since I’m finishing editing that book I’ve been editing FOREVER SO FAR, a number of questions and tasks have popped up in my head, including but not limited to: Girl, you need to rework your query letter And also, when will you finish editing your other two manuscripts? Because you have to finish writing book…
Category: Writing
The grit
Hey, hey, hey, guys! I’m feeling obnoxiously hyper today, all positive for whatever reason. Maybe it’s because after months struggling to get much done, I got my groove back, and I’m PRODUCING big time. FINALLY, and against the odds (read: my own procrastination and laziness), I managed to finish editing my sci-fi book (for the…
Bye, bye insecurity
For a very, very long time, I’ve felt insecure about my writing. I’d enumerate the reasons, but right now, that feels like giving them power, and this post and this day are all about flipping the switch an empowering myself. I firmly believe I will reach my writing goals, I will get my books published,…
The present
I never imagined I’d live through a real pandemic. It’s been strange, surreal, stressful, heartbreaking, scary, hopeful. From the lockdowns to the quarantines and the awful news coming from many corners of the world. To the hope and now the much needed social protests the globe is seeing, one can say 2020 is one for…
The new needs friends
Do we remember that quote from Ratatouille? I know that’s a Pixar/Disney film, and some people are too precious to take advice from a movie for kids. Good luck, my snob friend, this is your cue to quit reading this blog. Back to the point, can we reread this fantastic bit? I don’t believe in…
Sometimes, I dislike being a pantser
Going through my NaNoWriMo 2019 draft, I noticed two things: This book is dumb and fun. I still need to reinforce the main plotline (aka everything that isn’t the parties and the romance between 2 of the 3 main characters. I feel so uncomfortable writing cute relationships; I need to wreck that thing somehow). The…
The 2020 agenda
I love lists. Lists are the only way I can get anything done. The sheer pleasure of crossing off something I’ve successfully completed/done is similar to the pleasure the chocolate and cake I devoured during NYE gave me. Guys, I ate way too much. Anyway, I started off the year by: Sleeping in Eating more…
2020
As probably 90% of Earth’s population, I was slightly panicking about the impending beginning of a new decade, thinking I’ve done nothing with my life so far, regretting imaginary and real decisions I respectively imagined and actually made; wondering, “what the fuck next?” The truth is, the past ten years were fruitful, interesting, invigorating, and…
Gathering the courage to query
Man, I remember a year ago when I tried sending out a handful of queries for the first time ever. A year ago. That’s the time I’ve spent editing this book once again (HUGE * HERE. SEE BELOW POST). It’s been worthwhile, though, because I’ve grown as a writer and all that blahblahblah but, mostly,…
The first sex scene
I mainly write YA fiction, which means my nun’s brain thinks I shouldn’t include sex because parents will be horrified and get all protective of their precious teens who have definitely NEVER heard of or had sex even though they aren’t 12 anymore. #People #LOL Moving on, for NaNoWriMo 2019, I decided to write NA…
I WON NANO, AND IT’S INSANE! (Bonus track: sneaky advice)
GUYS! I WON NANOWRIMO AGAIN! (Here’s where I say I cried and all that but, to be honest, it went like a breeze this year, so I won’t lie: it was fun!) I don’t know what changed. Maybe the fact that I wasn’t doing loads of worldbuilding because this is a contemporary book? Whatever it…
I can write, but I can’t edit
We’re past half November, which means 30th November is LOOMING, PEOPLE, LOOMING. In what I’m sure has now become tradition, I’m doing NaNoWriMo. Surprisingly, the time of the year when I’m able to write first drafts. Unsurprisingly, always under severe pressure. Except this NaNoWriMo is going remarkably well, and this book is happening. While I…