It’s late at night, but I just got finished writing and I wanted to blog in about it.\u00a0 It went fairly well.\u00a0 I introduced a new character (Leila) and tried to develop her a little bit, show the different sides of her personality and how she reacts to trials and difficulties.\u00a0 I hope that I got started off on the right note and that she’s an interesting character to read about.\u00a0 I probably didn’t do all that good with the main male character (I’ve changed his name to Ian) and should probably revise that before I submit it for the Quark writing group.\u00a0 It can be challenging to make your characters interesting in those first few pages when you introduce them.\u00a0 You’ve got to be efficient.<\/p>\n
I’ve decided to modify my goals a little bit.\u00a0 I’m going to shoot for 4,000 words a week instead of 500 a day.\u00a0 That way, if I miss a day or two, I’m still good.<\/p>\n
For me personally, I don’t think that writing is the kind of thing that lends itself to doing a little bit every day (which is why I decided never to be a full time writer). I do much better when I write sporadically in big chunks, rather than consistently spitting out very small pieces every day.<\/p>\n
I am a little bit worried that I’m too wordy in my writing, but I’m not going to worry too much about editing and rewrites until I actually finish the whole thing.\u00a0 I’ve got to allow myself to suck if I’m ever going to be any good.\u00a0 I’m optimistic about all this.<\/p>\n
I’m wondering, though, if I should try to think out the entire story in my head, including the ending, before I go much further.\u00a0 I tried that a couple of times with some of the other stories that I wrote, but things always changed so much midway that it didn’t really work.\u00a0 On the other hand, if I have at least the skeleton of a complete story in my mind, I might believe in it more as I write it.\u00a0 That would provide motivation and keep me from wondering if I’m just making a fool of myself as I write this.<\/p>\n
And, one quick note, in case you’re getting sick of reading nothing but my whining about writing, I do plan on doing some useful things on this blog, such as reviewing some podcasts, talking about Quark, and doing some other things.\u00a0 It’s not just going to always be me saying “well, this is how my story is going but I don’t want to actually post it on the internet since I may want to sell it someday.”<\/p>\n
I hope that you enjoy my stream-of-conscious ramblings anyways.\u00a0 That’s what blogging is about–random ramblings on interesting subjects.\u00a0 At least I’ll try to keep it short!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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