Recent content by blushiemagic

I don’t study creative writing, my brain just involuntarily vomits words onto the screen

My plan is to write the entirety of the first book before I post anything at all. That way I'll have between 6 to 12 months of backlog. As for how that plan is actually going... I almost got to the halfway point, then I fell into a rut of endlessly editing the chapters I already have...

So, 10k words. Got it.

Autistic person here who neither uses nor recognizes body language, feeling invisible 😔

I don’t have allergies… buuuut I am an extreme night owl and daylight savings has completely annihilated me. I went from having hours of energy to spend on writing daily, to averaging half an hour per day.

I’ve learned that, no matter how many times I tell myself “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” I will always turn the perfect and the good into mortal enemies.

So it sounds like I’m right to worry about the slow pacing and the first chapter being all over the place. I should probably try to be more focused. Currently things don’t get more focused until partway through chapter 2 (although then it gets bogged down by standard starting-litRPG and...

The hardest part for me is finding the ever-elusive free time. In between work, and commuting, spending time with partners, and sleeping and getting trapped in my nightmares, chores, I think I only average like 30-60 minutes a day to edit and write these days :blob_dizzy: Editing is a close...

Bold to assume I’ve ever tried writing a book before

It's a very case-by-case basis thing. When I used to write short stories, they were 50/50 on whether I planned the ending from the start or made it up when I got there. For the series I'm currently writing, the ending for the first book was probably the very second thing I planned, and the...

I’m currently mostly worried about the slow pacing, chapter 1 being all over the place, and the mood/plot whiplash in chapter 2. (Chapter 1 is more like a prologue but I heard a lot of people don’t read those…) First three chapters should add up to nearly 10k words. (I swear I will post this...

The main character will always be the narrator in first point of view in my stories. That way I can try to impose as much of the mental fuckery as possible onto the reader.

I love short stories, they’re how I started out with writing. A decade ago. …Before taking a decade-long break from writing.

I think I have second-hand trauma from reading the kinds of comments people make on other people’s stories :sweat_smile:

I’ve gained almost a decade of experience randomly generating names because of all my headmates having to name ourselves