I typed in the word "thugged", as in "don't go to that part of town or you'll be thugged", and the spellchecker wants to change it to "hugged".

I've been writing this story for a while, a modern fairy tale... It went a bit stagnant about a year ago, maybe more. It wasn't the story. I just got burned out a lot. I felt like all my energy that could have been outwardly creative was being put into reworking myself--how I viewed things, how I treated things, mostly how I treated myself. I ( Read more... )

Stolen from eddyfate who got this writing exercise from others.

Writing challenge/exercise: write a story-beginning that implies an era and/or place in as few words as possible, without explicitly specifying the time or place ( Read more... )

Project: Eve
Previous word count: 7301
Today's word count: 7876
Thoughts: This is where I'll start to have to do some reading so that I don't step on too many toes ideas. I don't know how much of the Mythos that I'm thinking of for this story is in print somewhere and how much I've made up for this story.

BPAL of the week: boomslang
Caffeine of ( Read more... )

Project: Eve
Previous word count: 6657
Today's word count: 7301
Thoughts: So I'm going to try a trick. At least 15 minutes of writing a day, no interruptions. It's not so much time that I feel like I'm not doing anything else and it's enough time to get a good thought in. The story's coming along once again. A transition that I thought was just ( Read more... )

Project: Various gaming things
Previous word count: ?
Today's word count: ~3000

Project: Eve
Previous word count: 6448
Today's word count: 6657
Thoughts: So I didn't exactly have writer's block, more like writer's dumb. It reminds me of the time I went to France. After a day and a half of immersion, I couldn't make English work. I tried writing ( Read more... )

Project: Eve
Previous word count: 6087
Today's word count: 6448
Thoughts: I wish I had another excuse, but nah, I'm filled with slack. This weekend, I'll write more. Srsly. It's not like the story isn't there at the front of my brain, pounding to get out.

BPAL of the week: glasya
Caffeine of the week: coffee, just plain coffee, whatever ( Read more... )

Project: Eve
Previous word count: 5064
Today's word count: 6087
Thoughts: Huh, a thousand words--that's better than I thought I was doing. I do need to finish reading The King in Yellow before going much further though. I know the mythology, but I'd like to have all the fiction under my belt as well. Besides, if it terrified Lovecraft, I think I ( Read more... )

Ack.

Project: Eve
Previous word count: 4202
Today's word count: 5064
Thoughts: Gah, I need to pound out more words. It's not like I don't know where the story's going. I'm just getting hung up on language. I think I have two pages worth of passive sentences.

Project: Gaming related writing
Word count: 3042
Thoughts: How come I can't pump out ( Read more... )

I figured that I needed some way to keep track of how much I'm actually writing and a public accountability might just make me knuckle down to it. The prevention of public embarrassment is a pretty good motivator for me. And anyone can feel free to nudge me if I forget to post this any week.

Project: Eve
Previous word count: 3200
Today's word ( Read more... )