-
purpose
As I said in the last post, I've been applying my "checklist" system to scenes in the stories I'm working on, and have come up with a couple of amendments. The first had to do with conflict; this one has to do with purpose.Purpose is now the sixth category on my checklist. It's different from the Goals category, which is about what the characters ( Read more... ) -
more about conflict
I've been using my checklist system for the last few scenes I've worked on, and have been finding incredibly helpful. Even for scenes that aren't a struggle to write, taking a few minutes to go through the checklist and answer the questions seems to give me a better, more organic "feel" for what's going on between the characters and where things ( Read more... ) -
what's wrong with this picture?
So, you know how it is when you're writing a scene and everything's just humming along with dialogue, setting and characters just kind of clicking in place? Right. Well that's not what's happening with the scene I'm working on now. It's been a bitch to write, but the good news is, I figured out why. The scene has two fundamental problems that I ( Read more... ) -
shower story
My total for last week is 4589 words. Comparatively low for me, but I'm okay with that because it all feels like progress. For one thing, my untitled Yami story is growing a title! I'm calling it Stigma. For now, anyway. Up til last week it was just "the shower story," because it's based on a scene from one of my old notebooks in which Tsuzuki and ( Read more... ) -
carbonmade rocks!
My current work contract is coming to an end at the animation studio where I work, so one of the things I absolutely had to get done last week was get my portfolio online and updated and looking reasonably professional.
I'd been putting it off because, while I technically can build websites, and have done so in the past, I was dreading the actual ( Read more... ) -
word count
I was sick with an Evil Virus this week, so I was amazed to tally up my word count for the week and realize that I still got just over 7,000 words written, across three different projects ( Read more... ) -
weekly word count
Favorite line of the week:
Hisoka's body, frozen as it was at a hormonally inconvenient age, was not to be trusted at the best of times. Sharing hotel rooms with Tsuzuki when they were out on cases together had become its own special kind of torture.
My butt is being kicked by an Evil Virus this week, but I still managed to get a decent chunk of ( Read more... ) -
weekly word count
So this is my word count report for the week of Feb 23 thru Maruch 1:
For Lucidity, my "A" story, I wrote 4,767 words. For my untitled "B" story I wrote 2,356 words, though not all of those will actually end up in the story. But I still wrote them. So that brings my word count for the week to... (drumroll please...) 7123 words in total. Go me! -
Word Count Quandry
Today I wrote just over 900 words on my "B" story, which is based on a scene I found in one of my Yami notebooks. The scene in question falls somewhere near the end of the story, since it involves Tsuzuki and Hisoka gettin' busy with each other, I've been working backwards from that point, trying to figure out how they got there ( Read more... ) -
Sleep Deprivation
So for the past few days I've had no ability to focus on anything whatsoever. In my writing, or at my job, and even though I was putting the hours in at my keyboard, my word count was in the toilet. Then it dawned on me that I probably haven't been sleeping enough. Duh ( Read more... )