SEPTEMBER 19 ( Read more... )

Amazing how easy it is to not write. All it takes a few days in a row of me forgetting to turn on the ColdTurkey Writer app before logging off for the night, and suddenly I have half a week without writing anything.

My measure of a habit's durability, though, is how easily it can be resumed if/when interrupted. Breakfast > chai > private morning ( Read more... )

I have this handy program called "Cold Turkey Writer" which allows me to lock my computer down entirely until I've written a certain number of words or had the writing program open for a certain length of time. (I really don't like how many times I've used a first-person pronoun in the previous sentence and now this one. Makes me feel very out of ( Read more... )

1. Did I write 50,000 words or reach something approximating a complete draft? Very much nope. Got somewhere around 5-6,000 words, and just ground to a halt ( Read more... )

So, what are Prospero's personal powers, vs. things he has Ariel do ( Read more... )

I just spent most of the day replying to old (and new) AO3 comments, and I found myself re-reading a whole bunch of my own fics as part of that process. I still really like most of them, which is a pleasant surprise! And it's a good motivator for this year's attempt at completing NaNoWriMo ( Read more... )

I feel a burgeoning need to *create*, to make something pleasing to the eye and mind, something that invites repeat visits, something that inspires to go out and explore or create for oneself ... only I don't know what to create or which medium to use ( Read more... )

I feel like I should apologize for the number of navel-gazing posts I've inflicted on you all this past month or so. Perhaps it's an inevitable part of trying to crowbar my life out of the rut it had fallen into and up onto more productive tracks. No, productive isn't quite the right word, though it's definitely a pleasant side effect to the change ( Read more... )

I vaguely remember kicking out posts on a regular basis, scheduling a month of posts in advance. This is a thing I did for several years. It's possible. It's going to happen ( Read more... )

So, I still live and breathe, and in an attempt to get the creative juices going again after a loooong stretch of burnout, I'm going to be doing NaNoWriMo this year.

Not attempting NaNoWriMo: I'm determined to do it properly for once. I have an outline of sorts, character sheets, and lots of ideas that I've had to deliberately sit on rather than ( Read more... )