AUTHOR’S JOURNEY
A space for the messy, magical journey of writing. Tools, doubts, some victories, and the moments in between.
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When this idea started some weeks ago I thought that Microsoft Word was enough. Then came a 50-page Word document with everything – an explosion of unformatted words, pictures and project tables. Going forward, it will be impossible to manage. I have only 8 chapters lined up (already for a month) and can not find
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Well, it’s my birthday!Not really a newsflash per se. But it’s good to know. The news is that I am now the proud owner of a second-hand computer, where my creativity can fly. I can also separate my daytime job from my night-time job. I can also use all tools available to me to support
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But I will do better by myself. And that’s really all I can do.
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And another fifty (or so) to go… But for today, I am celebrating! One chapter fully written; 2144 words of it. Just not sure how I feel about it, to be honest. Every time I read what I wrote, it feels like crap. Not good enough. Weird sentences. Strange expression, doubts. But I am letting
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Nothing kills your creativity more than sitting in a room under A/C and artificial light, in from of power point presentations during 8h. I am generally happy with my career. It’s a pretty successful one and I am very good at what I do. But on days like today, where they suck the life out
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Today, due to life happening and errands to run, I could sit in a coffee place at 9 a.m. and write for 1h straight. It was clear enough for me how easy I can enter the zone and how I would be able maybe to do a 8h job out of it. The relaxation and
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The million dollar question. And here what I can say: And this is what I am capable of sharing now. I have what I thought it would be idea for a series of 3 books. But to be honest, I think that idea was fun, but it will not be executable at this moment in
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Is not going as fast as I would like. And I am getting frustrated that I cannot go at the planned rhythm. The idea of having something nearly finished in one year, is fasting dissolving, considering the amount of time and silence I need to step into the “writing zone”. Need to be feeling what
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I am currently building characters. Seems like a necessary requirement for writing any good book. Although, to be honest I did not study for this, so have no clue how it is done*. But common sense (my dearest old friend) tells me that you need deep, dense characters that you can relate with. The thing
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Got ill, come home, ditched all responsibilities on my husband and slept 15h. No writing yesterday too. Already put some work from home hours in the morning, slept more 3h, start feeling better. And writing I am.
feisty mind 