Okay, I already kind of gave up on even trying to get 50k words before the end of August - and with what a mess this summer has been, I'm happy to be writing even as much as I have been. That's not the problem, I can live with not finishing the Camp NaNoWriMo event, not a big deal ( Read more... )

I think it was sometime last November that I read a post on Tumblr by a fellow writer, talking about how he found it ridiculous when people say that their "stories write themselves" or that their "characters took over the plot". And I completely see where he was coming from. At the end of the day, you write the story. If you quit writing, the story ( Read more... )

I guess I have to write this down somewhere. I've had this idea bugging me for a while now - basically ever since those couple of weeks of intensively listening to Evinta. Especially And All Their Joy Was Drowned. (Damn you, Aaron, and your inspiring lyrics and voice-to-die-for!) In fact, I've wanted to write another costume drama ever since I ( Read more... )

Finally got around to starting the process of rewriting my NaNoWriMo novel Evernight. Got myself Scrivener, and holy shit, how did I ever write without it?! It's just soooo useful! I'm in love. No more having a dozen different OpenOffice documents open at the same time and having to tab between them to check what colour my main character's boss' ( Read more... )

So I participated in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) this past November. I "won" - that is, managed to write 50.000 words during those 30 days (or mostly nights, but anyway). The result is the first draft of a novel. I call it Evernight. Now, I'm torn between wanting to edit/rewrite it right away, and wanting to continue working on my ( Read more... )