This is just a short accountability post, as much for my benefit as anyone’s.
WIP: Unnamed Verses
Tag: mywriting
Versifying, Reading, Editing, Reviewing, and More
So, I’m not going to say much about this project—I’m trying to keep it under wraps until it’s done—but I for the purposes of accountability I wanted to mention that I’ve kept up with my commitment to draft one new poem every day. “Draft” is the operative word: often, I warm up by editing the work of the day before, tightening up the rhythms and polishing the wording, before drafting a new poem. I’m quite sure the manuscript will need some overall editing once I have drafted the full cycle of poems that will be in this collection, but for …
Getting Back on Track, I Hope
It’s no secret that for the past few years, I’ve been in a fallow period when it comes to my fiction writing. Hell, reading too, though I feel like I’m finally turning a corner with that. But the writing, well… I haven’t really turned that corner, and it’s pretty frustrating to me. In the past, I found that when I struggled to write something new, I could always remain productive by revising older work, but I’ve found that isn’t working for me at the moment. It’s not that I’ve written nothing:
A**hole Island
Hey, finally post that’s not about RPG stuff, huh? I’m ending the first week of my month of writing time this year. This is the first time I’ve reallyt sat down and done some serious writing since 2018. I… just didn’t have it in me, somehow, in 2019, and throughout most of 2020 our son was home with us and my wife was recovering from a work-related injury for a chunk of the year, so … really, honestly, I guess I’d have to say it was some combination of there being no time and no energy. This year, though: we worked …
So About That Novel I’ve Been Writing…
Having finished a draft I finally feel is, well, finished (in its way), I guess this is as good a time as any to jot down some thoughts on the project so far. Those not interested in a look at the fumbling, stumbling, and very difficult process it took me to get to the end of my first possibly-decent novel draft ought to skip this post.