Struggling Writers’ Daily Den: rant, share, complain, ask, daily progress thing (Part 2)

My two choices:
Perfect demon who makes a silly mistake and has to make a deal with a human to get her to hide his true identity
or
perfect demon who is actually caring and makes a deal with the human to help her just because he wants to?

Perfect means that as a demon, he never makes a mistake and is flawless as a demon.

Which is funner?

Hmm :thinking:

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Started and finished the prologue to Project Bloodline’s first draft.
Continued the rest of Project Magecraft’s chapter 2, onto chapter 3.

I need to do a shorter experiment story.

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Just wanted to share this:

a gangly group of gangsters

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Umm… :sweat_smile:

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I could put even more Gs, but I couldn’t come up with any more

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Gargantuan. A gangly group of gargantuan gangsters. (>‿◠):v:

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lol XD I like it
Maybe a gargantuan group of gangly gangsters going golfing

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Writing experiments in short story format. The goal is to get better at the things I am struggling with in my writing. I am not a planner or a plantser, but a FLEXIBLE outline is crucial as hell because going with writing by the seat of my pants is a nightmare.

So, I want to get better for my second and third and many drafts after for my own sake and future publishing sake.

Don’t worry, I will still get beta readers and critique partners who are willing to help me out.

I can’t do everything alone. :wink:

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I found some old writing prompts from 2023 (if you can call that old) and cut and paste the ones that I like into a notebook.

Writing prompts are so tricky for me, because in my mind I look at writing prompts as, I have to take EVERYTHING in the prompt at face value. The point of a writing prompt is to not take it an extreme and you change, add, tweak the prompt to your liking for whatever story you are creating.

I am at that point where I need some help with stories. I just want to go back to having some guidance with my writing.

Plus the prompts are weird-ish, which is a plus.

:grin:

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I may have decided that someone has resurrection magick. I don’t know what to do with this yet. It’s not exactly like a necromancer. Also different from an out of body experience. He becomes a cold corpse for a night in order to go to the land of the dead to find people or figure out murders. Then come morning, he resurrects himself. He can also resurrect people and change them so they can live out a new life with a new name.

Is there anything like this? I’m calling it resurrection magick right now.

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The book House of Leaves is a prime example of “you can write however you want/THERE ARE NO RULES IN WRITING” which is interesting because I never read the novel, only heard of it.

I can dig that. I greatly believe that I would benefit from writing a novel in my own expressive way.

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Project Succession will return TOTALLY REVAMPED IN EVERYTHING!!!

I also did a mock book cover for it. This is not the true book cover, just temporary for a while.

Summary

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This sounds really cool. I haven’t seen that done anywhere yet.

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I went back to my old project. This one has been 6 years in the making already. Oh, my. Where has the time gone?

I used to shake my head when hearing about writers whom it took a decade to publish a book. I see now how that happens. It’s not that you’re working on one book for ten years, but it’s rather that it took that long to arrive at to the best version of that story.

Feeling good about it so far. Let’s hope I make a good dent in it before burnout comes and I have to shelf it again.

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Haven’t see you in a while. How have you been?

Hi. Health hasn’t been good. Both mine and my husband’s. And with everything that was going on, I had less time and even less motivation to work on anything. I cut down my scarce social interactions everywhere, not just here, but I missed the little community we have here. I’m trying to regain my momentum.

It was a bad timing for the slump. I was :pinching_hand: close to publishing my book. Now I’m so burnt out from it, I can’t even look at it. It has to wait.

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Sorry to hear that.
Take it easy.

I do hope you and your husband get better and do some healing.
It’s still great to see you.

:hugs:

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Thanks :two_hearts:

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Who is excited about ONC here? I am!

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I wrote chapter 1 of Project Chaos’s first draft!

Writing this story is a weird ass experience that a good beta reader and a damned excellent editor can make sense out of.

I am writing it and fuck I am confused yet eager to write more.

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