It was a great night out with friends and damn that food is stupendous! Pricey, so it better taste like heaven, lol. JP was hilarious and it reminded me how much I miss comedians.
Thank you, this year my writing has clicked finally. It's flowed so much easier than the prior times I've tried to get through a novel length story. It's actually possible to read it since it is not all disjointed and out of order like my others.
Comedy definitely keeps us all honest and amused, which is also two of my favorite things, lol, I am so glad you got to go do all that!
And I am super excited that your writing pathways finally clicked. Something that has really helped me is my scene sheets, I loosely outline the scenes and then I don't end up lost either, because it sounds like we both know what getting stuck in that mire feels like, no thank you!
That Stoic training really helps one wonders I swear!😊
That's pretty much the change I made this year. Last year I had character notes not scene or chapter notes. I got so lost in the story and ended up writing 83k words of back story, never got to the point of what I had started out to write. This year I made a list of one topic per day to write about and it ended up working perefectly.
I'm just muddling my way through the last chapter today, trying to make this thing end without being dissapointing to a reader and have it be a logical break point between this and the next book.
Aaah! Sometimes wrapping it all up while trying to segue into the next plot is a brain twister. I hope you made it through the muddle with going maniacal!
Giving myself permission to not get it right on the first try has helped me so much in getting things finished-land, I am so super impressed with how you keep on plowing through the words, refining your technique as you go. I'm working on that very thing so thanks for being all inspirational:)
One of the things that helped instill the "just write" mentality was a ton of freewriting for a couple of years and then my daily posts here. For most of my life I never approached writing correctly, always thinking grandiose ideas about writing a novel never able to break it down into manageable pieces. This year it all clicked and I figured out how to write it in small pieces so I don't get overwhelmed by the process and the story. We edit LATER for a reason, the words just need to get out now.
I so hear you. I sometimes get so frustrated, at least more so in the past, about not being able to get out what is in, the way that I wish too. My approach was all wrong. Had to rearrange the inner book shelf a bit and now I'm logging!
Speaking of logging, can't wait to see just how much wordcrafting you do now that you are in the groove...And speaking of, now that my blogging and upkeep are done for the morning, it's off to novel crafting land, laterz:)
!PIZZA