Got about 1k words in this chapter thanks to yesterday, today was spent reading and watching Sleeping Beauty among other things :3
Not sure if I’ll write, but getting even a sentence done would be good
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Inspiration has hit! I finished chapter 7 of WIP yesterday, and today started chapter 8 and then also started chapter 1 of this new idea. I’m sooooo happy. I genuinely started thinking editing may have taken those juices away.
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You give me hope!
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The actual writing part 
I’ll get there eventually
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I can’t for the life of mine find the editing thread, but I officially started editing She Kills Elephants and Men for eventual rerelease…. I need 27 or so chapters to release at once, then I can just do 1 or 2 a day.
That’s on top of writing and reading…
Why?
Because I want it all, obviously.
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I’ve been having Adhd for the stories I write i swear to god.
First I started rewriting a book I wrote about a year ago, long story behind that, then I had an idea of how to fix an old story I wanted to make, overhauling entire scenes and elements, and then I had a werid dream I wanted to turn into a story about a girl who was trapped in a honey jar, and I feel it became clear after the first page I had no idea where to take the story.
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That happens, sometimes.
The honey jar thing would make a cool fable or modern fairytale short story, as a background to a fantasy world (where they would have different myths). So, like the man in the moon with his face of cheese is the girl trapped in the honey jar.
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You’ll get there, I PROMISE! You’re doing amazing!
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Thank you! I just want to write everything and rally sink into it.
I did have the idea that whoever trapped her in there was trying to get her back, i just need to figure out why.
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At this stage, whatever. I don’t care if a big five publishing company picks me up or not. I want to have as much control over my work as I can have. I don’t want someone to tell me that my plot isn’t gonna sell because it’s not cliche enough and not let them take a chance on me. I want to self publish first and see how that goes. It’s less pressure and it lets you dip your feet into the water.
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Good luck!!!
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Well, if you go with Sun and Moon myths? The girl could be the sun’s heart and the sun is forever chasing the moon to reclaim his heart.
If you decide to make it an Earth and Moon myth, you could make the girl a child of the Earth and Sun and the Sun puts her there and it’s forever Earth trying to catch her at the horizon.
Or you could look into:
Which is where they start on a diet of honey until death, then are sealed in a honey coffin to become mystical medicine.
Which means whomever is trying to reclaim her is likely trying to use her death for their gain.
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The work on version 5 of my book continues.
I wrote an updated blurb and I’m happy with it.
I also gave a new logline a try, limiting myself to a challenge of under 150 characters. It’s just okay. Not quite a perfect one yet. Hopefully in the future I’ll figure it out.
The biggest challenge was then an updated synopsis - this is just for me, not for Wattys or any agent. I wanted to test myself to see if I can tell the story. Synopsis is also good to point out the weak areas of the plot.
And that’s exactly what I found. I found that the finale has wiggle room - a blank spot. How do we get from point A to point B? So I tried to work through it, trying out an idea but I’m not sure yet if it will work.
First of all, it would turn one of the characters into a proper villain, something I didn’t expect but would deal with if I had to. It’s not an ideal solution though because it’s oddly similar to something that happens before (betrayal for selfish reasons) and I don’t want to repeat myself, plus then it would set this unwanted theme that women can’t be trusted and I really don’t want that to become the message of my story.
So I need alternatives. Maybe the opposite? Because my MC witnessed the betrayal earlier, he assumes this woman will also betray him but then she doesn’t.
But this idea is a little weak as far as her motivations go. He just ruined her career and all plans for the future. Why would she let that go? Hmmm.
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I question that one. Just me.
21 days to break a habit, minimum.
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Specifically:
" Research summarily discredits the “21-day rule.” Phillippa Lally, PhD, a senior researcher at University College London, published a study that found it actually takes an average of 66 days — more than two months – to form a habit. Lally also reported that the amount of time before a new behavior feels automatic can range between 18 and 254 days."
Early stuff showed a minimum of 21.
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It might come down to the age-old debate of discovery writing vs planning. If you’re against planning, nothing I describe will make sense to you.
I know what I want to happen in the story. It’s the only ending that will make me happy.
I use planning to check if it’s possible to structure the story in a way that would result in my desired outcome.
But there’s a lot that gets lost in bullet points. It’s easy to overlook an issue.
Synopsis is a good solution to that. It forces me to write the full story as if I was telling it to someone. It forces me to explain why characters do what they do and what the consequences are.
And this is how I often find issues that bullet points missed, like right now, I still don’t have a concrete solution to how I’m going to resolve the finale.
This doesn’t mean that I won’t resume writing just because I have an unanswered question. I will write. It just makes me more confident in what I’m writing when I can see that I’m going in the right direction.
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The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that the way to figure out my finale issue is to focus on the story of my female character.
She’s the third pov of this book, a secondary character that doesn’t get as much attention as the two mains, but she has an important role as far as the global story, she’s valuable to me as she fills in story details that the other characters simply don’t know, and she has her own story to tell too (it’s a status story - a fall from grace).
So far, I’ve neglected her point of view, I was focused on the two mains only but since my synopsis experiment got stuck on her, I think it’s a clear sign I can’t keep ignoring her. Who knows, maybe if I write out all of her chapters, everything else will fall in place?
Wish me luck.
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Interesting work!
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