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

True, but in Sailor Moon, even though it is a kingdom, Princess Serenity is fatherless. Her mother is her sole parent though. The manga explains what is happening in that regard.

I suppose the creator of Sailor Moon had no idea of the “word” queendom. I’ll just let that side though.

It was the 90s and the people of today still don’t think the word queendom can even be considered a real word.

I hate how I am overthinking this and it is just a show.
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Maybe it was the closest translation from Japanese to English

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I guess. LOL!


I’m going to finish up with writing-procrastinating. :sweat_smile:

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RIP to the chapter I had to sacrifice to unblock my writing. It was a good chapter. Action packed, but it had to go. :disappointed:

I’m writing again. :crossed_fingers: Working on my prequel.

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That’s dangerous for me. Sometimes writing a chapter can “get it out of my system” for now. Other times, it’ll just pull me in deeper because then I start planning what’s going to happen next, and I want to write more chapters. I am trying to write notes or even script like conversations at least because that’s less time consuming, but still trying to maintain focus on my main WIPs. I think having something you can come back to later can be useful though. :muscle:

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That is true, that is why I need willpower and some type of discipline. So, that I can focus on the two novels I am working on rather than something else that can wait.

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For tomorrow, besides writing and doing something else, I have to clean my workspace and overall room.

For now, I am just screwing around procrastinating on what I should do writing wise.

I have a somewhat long day that I need to take very seriously.
Nothing else to report.

First time I log back into WP after almost a year-long hiatus and I see spam on my conversation wall. :sweat_smile:

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Ain’t you popular!


I am enjoying a more relaxed pace of writing after NaNo and just focusing on finishing this story, even slowly. Atm, I don’t feel like anything else. Personal problems with my teenage daughter just drain me of everything.

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Could there be dwarf forms of dwarf? Would they be the same size as primordial dwarfs or even smaller?

Oddly enough, I feel lightheaded when I barely did anything. I mean I moved around furniture and managed to eat breakfast. But I still feel lightheaded sadly enough.

I am really not able to handle simple cleaning or organizing. That pretty damn sad. :slightly_frowning_face:

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You did get things done, though! You ate & managed to move furniture around, I’d count that as a win so far. I admit I don’t know much about your situation, but I do know sometimes our bodies are not as cooperative as we’d like them to be, so we just have to take extra good care of ourselves instead. Focusing on something we can handle at the moment.
I hope your lightheadedness clears soon :]

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I am feeling much better. Thank you for the concern.
:blush:

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Used most of my free time today to work on my MC’s drawing. About to spend at least 30 minutes writing my prequel. :muscle:

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Rant

What is up with these spam bots? I’ve been getting irrelevant comments with suspicious links on my debut poetry collection and I’m tired of them. I’ve spent the last three hours reporting comments and muting accounts. On the bright side, my book’s getting engagement—no matter how “fake”—but it still annoys me greatly.

At least I was able to report them ASAP rather than wake up to a million notifs, only to find out they were all stupid spam :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

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Luckily, while I was being flooded with stupid spam, there were a few notifications here and there from genuine readers. My sonnet collection has two genuine readers voting on every sonnet I’ve put out, with one of them commenting regularly :smiling_face_with_tear: another reader picked up my portal fantasy book and commented, apologizing for “being dead” and not reading lately :sob:

And also, that same reader who commented on my portal fantasy book recommended me as a cover designer! I saw her mentioning me on someone else’s message board, she’s so sweet and I love her :pleading_face:

Progress

I’m on the verge of finishing Chapter XXI! I hope to finish Act I soon, in a day or less. That’s asking for more than 6000 words in a day. Hard, I know, but it’s not impossible! I’ve written more than 8000 words in a day before! I just need to really get into the writing groove.

I also managed to get back into poetry a bit. I haven’t updated my sonnets book in ages, and now here I am, having posted three new sonnets to the collection :partying_face: with a possible fourth sonnet coming very soon :eyes:

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Do you find it difficult to maintain a headspace for both writing poetry and writing novels? I feel like when I’m really into writing novels, my brain kind of dies for poetry inspiration. And when I was in a big poetry mode, I didn’t really write novels. Does this happen to you or? :thinking:

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Ugh! My eyes are feeling fatigue!

I need to write!

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I thought through my next scene yesterday, so now I just need a transition into it and I am good to write this chapter.

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I just realized that I first started my wip back in January 2022 and it’s almost January 2023 already. /weep

This wip is only half finished, but the whole story takes place in April 2023 so I want to publish it by then. Argh! So I have to write as much as I’ve already written, but in only three or four months. Guess I have to do four NaNos over the next few months all by myself. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯

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Aww, you are not alone!

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