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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Will be a thing from this week forward. Already booked on the family agenda and will have 4h of interrupted writing time every Thursday. Thursdays are for me.
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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: The main character is not a 20-year old something. She will be over 40. There will be fantasy. Full world building. There will be real world drama. Utopia world Romance for sure. I am a sucker for love, sorry but not sorry. It will not…
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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…
