Skyring's Blog - Posts Tagged "morningsidehigh"
Back on deck
Call me hesitant, but I've been easing myself back into telling the world, or at least the Goodreads part of it, that I'm writing a fresh book.
I'm far enough along with a good enough idea of where it's going that I'm confident of having at least a first draft finished by midwinter.
Not the frantic pace of NaNoWriMo, nor the more achievable but still demanding chapter a day of a serial novel.
I inevitably fall behind and give up, and/or sacrifice quality, and/or lose my way plotwise.
This time my aim is for a short chapter a day of around a thousand words, but if I don't make it, I'm not going to bother too much. I'll get there.
Nor am I aiming for a finished polished product - well, not that I ever really get there, but sometimes I come up with something that makes me happy - this is strictly first draft only and when I get to the end of the story I'm going to go back to the start and get rid of the bits that make me wince rather than smile.
I'm about a tenth of the way in, I've got most of my output on a website, I'm also running a blog there which nobody reads but myself, and I'll be looking for feedback. Rough feedback, because it's only a rough draft so far, but any comments are welcome.
So why blog here as well as there? Because Goodreads is all about reading and writing, and the sort of people who hang around here are more likely to be interested in my literary fantasies than those anywhere else.
All two of you! (Counting myself.)
I'm far enough along with a good enough idea of where it's going that I'm confident of having at least a first draft finished by midwinter.
Not the frantic pace of NaNoWriMo, nor the more achievable but still demanding chapter a day of a serial novel.
I inevitably fall behind and give up, and/or sacrifice quality, and/or lose my way plotwise.
This time my aim is for a short chapter a day of around a thousand words, but if I don't make it, I'm not going to bother too much. I'll get there.
Nor am I aiming for a finished polished product - well, not that I ever really get there, but sometimes I come up with something that makes me happy - this is strictly first draft only and when I get to the end of the story I'm going to go back to the start and get rid of the bits that make me wince rather than smile.
I'm about a tenth of the way in, I've got most of my output on a website, I'm also running a blog there which nobody reads but myself, and I'll be looking for feedback. Rough feedback, because it's only a rough draft so far, but any comments are welcome.
So why blog here as well as there? Because Goodreads is all about reading and writing, and the sort of people who hang around here are more likely to be interested in my literary fantasies than those anywhere else.
All two of you! (Counting myself.)
