Had a breakthrough on something that had me stalled on Blessing of the Wood. I was having trouble with the motivation for things that were going on, and the idea hit me out of the blue yesterday at work.
I’ve incorporated it into what I already had written and moved forward. I’m closing in on 4k words now, and going strong.
Always good, when you have both a deadline and a tradition looming over you. Hope to have more to report later this evening.
I had to put all my writing aside for a few days. When I hit one of those points where the words just don’t come, I get frustrated, and that makes it even harder, and it snowballs. So, I closed Wordperfect, the cover images, maps, and everything else, and relaxed for a while.
Opened things back up yesterday, and I’m moving forward on the Earth Day story, now retitled “Blessing of the Wood”
It’s flowing — thankfully — so I hope I’m back on track. Up to 3k words.
Fighting a motivation slump. I’ve puzzled my way through several sticky points that had drawn me up short across the stories I’m working on, but when I open up one of the documents to actually write, I’m just not feeling it.
I can muse on the story, get excited about it, but when I open Wordperfect, the words just don’t come.
It’s frustrating — especially with an important deadline looming.
All I can do is try every day.
Up to 2500 on Sanctuary of Wood. It’s coming along nicely, now that I’m getting back into writing mode and made the changes I mentioned a while back.
I did a little writing on SOTM 19 as well. Nothing major enough to report yet, but that may change if I skip ahead to another scene and write it while I try to figure out the transition ( me and my transitions ) for the beginning of the chapter. Like I said while finishing the last one, I have a lot of scenes that are already planned out because I pushed them from that chapter to this one.
Had some thoughts on Lowborn as well. I may make a few tweaks to it that I think will make the last chapter even easier to move than the last few tweaks I mentioned a while ago. I get a little closer every time I open this one up, and I expect to be able to start posting it soon. I’m hoping right after the Earth Day contest.
I may post a short story that’s exclusive to the website soon. We’ll see how it goes. That could be another way to keep my motivation flowing, and center it on settings that coincide with the larger works I know everyone would like to see posted.
