I did not do too much writing today but I did spend a lot of time googling what hairstyles one of my characters should have and watching House MD
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I gave Project Succession a new lease on life.
I am currently on chapter one still.
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It’s quite a unique structure.
This article was really helpful if you want to learn more or want to give it a try.
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Done with chapter 1 of Project Succession’s draft 3.
I wrote out the chapter 2 chapter summary and shall move onto the second chapter.
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So it’s been weird to work out my writing muscles and try to get them back into shape by writing 500 words a day again. I’m trying to get back into the mindset of writing 500 words a day again instead of 300 a day. I have a hundred and twenty words left for today. I want to keep pushing, but I know if I do that, I’ll literally burn myself out so much that I can’t write again. I tried that before, when I tried to start writing again,n where I tried to do a thousand words a day, but quickly figured out I just couldn’t do it
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I came up with a poetry challenge. Alphabet and syllable challenge.
Four lines. Seven stanzas. The syllables of each first word in each line have to increase or decrease. You can do it however you want. Each first word also has to end in the same way like -ly or -y, -tion or -tian, etc.
Here’s what I did: first (ABCD), fifth (QRST), sixth (UVWX), and seventh (YZ) stanza’s first words’ syllables are each 3, 4, 5, 6; second (EFGH), third (IJKL), fourth (MNOP) stanza’s first words’ syllables are each 6, 5, 4, 3
I chose y or ly. Might try to make them all “ly” later.
First stanza example:
Actively avoiding contact while seeking friendship, I’m
Beautifully creative but afraid to think outside my box.
Contradictory; I want and resist attention.
Desirability—none, but which I imagine to have.
Actively is 3 syllables, beautifully is 4, contradictory is 5, and desirability is 6. But you could do 6, 5, 4, 3 or 2, 3, 4, 5, however you want. The syllables of each first word in each line needs to be more or fewer syllables from the previous first word.
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why r descriptions for a story so hard
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I felt this…
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I’m thinking about removing something important from Project Succession.
Aeris doesn’t need to be an actual princess. She can just be a wealthy heiress who lives like a princess.
I’ve been thinking about it for a while on and off.
That’s something that I can change.
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the decription for Ms Apex was not well done, and its fairly hard to for me to do descriptions as i pants everything
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Same.
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I feel old
I hadnt had a typing or computor class in a centuries since i was very young so, i was trying to figure out the shortcuts for bolding for like a authors note. I really feel old that i dont know how to use computer shortcuts but i dont use any under normal situations excapt the copy and paste shortcut
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i just signed myself up for a ton of editing, as Ms Apex needs a lot of it
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Whew, been a while since I said anything. Relocating and job-hunting will do that to you, I guess.
Share: I’ve “joined” a small writing community that gathers at a tea bar near where I’m living currently. I said the second word in quotation marks since there doesn’t seem to be a formal joining process; people just show up to events. Write Nights are hosted every Monday, so that gives me an excuse to go out and not bed-rot!
The best part is that the tea bar it’s hosted in opens until late at night, pretty much until 10:00 p.m. every day except Sunday (when it closes at 8:00 p.m.). As a result, I’ve spent more time outside and being productive rather than just laying around at home.
Progress: I’ve released not one, not two, but five new chapters since my last update! I will admit I’m now having a case of the “Muddy Middles” and struggling to pace and string together scenes, but I know the direction that my story will follow.
This act in particular has more big reveals than the first one, and I’m not sure how many reveals will be let out in the third act (which is also the final act of the current book). The second and third book will each have their own reveals, especially the second book.
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started editing an old wip (good)
had to put my social media apps back in app jail because i was doomscrolling again (bad)
i finally get to try out my ai-proofed editing set-up (
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In my head, everything sounds beautiful and put together. On paper, it’s better but only a little bit. Though on word document it is clunky and hard to make sense out of.
I can never make the exact things in my head come out the same on paper or Google Docs.
That is why I suffer from white room syndrome/talking head syndrome so badly.
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its a big challenge, being a writer is never easy
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So that’s five hundred words posted for Ms Apex/ a new part. Idk what it is but writing five hundred words per a session is becoming easier for me it’s probably because i worked up to it instead of just jumping in. I’m going to keep doing five hundred words a session for a while then work up to 6 or 7 doing that for a while than continue the pattern till im at a thousand words.
Today i actually did a commentary on my writing and it was really nice i dont think anyone will ever read it but that is here nor there as I have it on my coffee. If anything, my coffee account is probably too cheap for my memberships
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I typed up another chapter of the current wip today. The zero draft I have is basically useless because I wrote it five years ago, fresh off the worst run of writer’s block I’ve ever had, with no research on anything, and no working knowledge of the genre.
It’s nice to be able to return to it and see how much progress I’ve made in writing. Like, I might not be a great author, but at least I’ve improved from whatever the hell that was.
And I love this story. The summer I started writing it drew a distinct line between mentally healthy me and slug drain-on-society me, and whenever I think of Peak creative juices + focus + enjoyment, that summer is what I strive for. So this wip holds a special place in my shrivelled heart.
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Man, I believe I finally figured out how I wanted chapter one for Project Succession to be.
I am so sick of rewriting this chapter and trying to figure it out.
Being a pantser sometimes sucks so hard.
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