When you have spent over a year working on the same book, things start to burn. Some of them include: Your patience. Your will. Your love for the manuscript (but not as in “burning love,” more like “I wanna print this pile of shit and BURN IT, MAN!”). Nobody told me that it will take…
Category: Writing
Of main characters
I call them “my girls.” And yes, the main characters of my two WIPs are female. Why? I’m a girl who likes writing about girls. Gi and Mila aren’t like me. Not completely. I actively avoid inserting myself in my stories and yet, when I read them, I notice little pieces, brushes of my thoughts…
Thinking days, writing days, all days
I wrote and edited so much during November that, as a consequence, I burned out a little and thus have written/edited way less during December. Naturally, I’m starting to freak out about it. But I also feel glad for unwittingly taking some time off. Why? Because thinking days are writing days: even when I don’t…
Social media for writers?
I use Twitter, I post on Instagram, and I still have a Facebook account. Please note that “still have” implies that even though my account exists, I never log into it. Facebook is a dark, negative place I realized I didn’t need as soon as I finished graduate school. Good semi-riddance. I look forward to…
The loneliness of writing
I don’t think I can accurately explain what I mean when I talk about the loneliness of writing. It is linked to the fact that “nobody expects/needs/cares about the stories I write. It is all the same if I stop, isn’t it? Who cares (besides me)? Why do I do this?” I’m an ambitious person,…
I, somehow, won NaNoWriMo
Somehow (aka by working my ass off and producing words like a f-cking robot), I wrote a 1st draft of 50,209 words in 29 days (and nights, yay! ¬_¬). AND IT FEELS SO FINE!? I’m actually proud of myself! THIS IS GOOD, GUYS! A new book drafted before the end of 2018! WIN! CHEERS! For…
A promise to myself
I started working on my first book at the end of 2016, which means I spent nine months writing it and have been editing it for about six to seven more months. Vacations, breaks and other interruptions aside, that first manuscript has taken nearly two years to be finished. I created a Twitter account in…
NaNo Lessons, Part 1
Deep in my heart, I always wanted to write fantasy. But I thought I couldn’t pull it off (for a variety of reasons, including: a) flowery prose isn’t my jam, and b) I used to believe I would need the grandiloquence of a 19th-century poet to write a fantasy book). Turns out, I was wrong….
Well, that was fast
On November 1st, I mentioned that I’d be burning out like a shooting star rushing through the night sky on its way to extinction. Yes, I’m trying to sound cute. Also, guess what? I feel them coming: the mental fog, the drain, the drag. It isn’t only about crafting too many sentences per day (aside…
My apologies: I’ve come to give you a boring pep talk
So I’ve been NaNoing for the last four days (yes, NaNoing is now a verb. No, the dictionaries aren’t with us on this one). This was a last minute decision, and an attempt to avoid closing 2018 with the same (only) MS under my belt. As in most cases, I jumped into my decision without…
NaNoing, editing, rewriting
November always looked like that chill, unsuspecting month between ordinary life and the end-of-the-year festivities. Or the end-of-the-year rushing through the stores and buying overpriced presents for demanding family members. Anyway, November never equaled busy for me. If anything, I dreaded it for standing between me and my vacation somewhere where the sun was doing…
Writing is hard; editing is worse.
So, hi guys? At least hi to whoever ends up reading this mess of a blog. Sometimes I don’t wanna tweet. Other (many) times I don’t feel like talking (especially with myself). But I always feel like writing. Do I always feel like writing my book(s)? Nope. Mostly, I’m in the mood for ranting, whining,…