I made a whole big hoopla about having two new ideas for stories and being super excited to get started. Yeah, so about that...turns out starting an entirely new project is not as easy as I remember. After finishing the fourth or fifth draft of my Magick Forest novel, and then finishing up Saving the… Continue reading False starts are still starts
Sometimes starting a new project is easy. You go in ready and willing to make the story the best you can do. Words fly off your fingertips like water after the floodgates have been opened. Even if it doesn't last, it feels like you're flying through the first few thousand words. Then there are the… Continue reading Breaking into a new project
There's one thing I've noticed about every single project I've ever written. It always starts with random snippets. Whether it's a conversation between two characters, some big emotional moment, or even some random slice of life scene, I always get something untethered to a greater whole. That's part of the fun of it. I get… Continue reading It all starts with the random snippets
There's a lot of chat in the writing circle that you can't just sit around and wait for inspiration to hit you. Creativity loves a moving target. If you're already creating, the inspiration with find you. The real problem is motivation. I've had inspiration for three different projects in the last few weeks, but I've… Continue reading Inspiration is not the problem. I need to get back to my routine.
You would think that finishing a novel of 80,000 words and months, if not years, of work would be more exciting. Not usually, no. It feels like finishing a huge exam in school, or finally passing on a project at work. You get that rush of accomplishment followed by an echoing emptiness of "what now?"… Continue reading Finishing a novel is anticlimactic
Subtle Stories 