FA+
Shop
NaNoWriMo: AKA "Sleep Is For the Weak"
7 years ago
Mood: Encouraged
Listening to: I'm Yours Forever
Reading: The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars
Watching: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ... Embrace the WTFness
Playing: Yomawari: Midnight Shadows... 'cause I apparently long for a cardiac arrest
Eating: Big ass bowl o'pho soup
Drinking: Coffee duh!
Hey everyone,
Hope you're doing well. It's November (holy crap) and I'm embarking on another National Novel Writing Month - 'cause, I'm stupid and that's how I roll. Tonight will be spent playing around with which idea I'm going to chase to its conclusion, be it dieselpunk, steammechs, dragonsouls, werewolves, or cosmic horrors. Or maybe all of the above. With any luck, my editing/writing jobs won't rear their ugly heads, as my clients are off at gaming conventions.
I'm in a weird headspace, though. Been reading and watching a boatload of mangas and anime of late, including Though You May Burn to Ash by Katashi Oniyazu. Do not allow the half-naked angel with the out-thrust bum on the cover fool you, however. This book is some serious psychological nightmare fuel... and I'm desperately waiting until February for the next release. But it got me thinking about flipping standard conventions on their head and wanting to go back to my horror roots. Add to that, my horror projects got published and getting some solid reviews. Even did an interview! O.O Maybe the blood and screams and shadows is where I belong LOL
Anyway, hope at least some of you are doing NaNoWriMo! Good luck to you. And to those who aren't, much love and inspiration as well. I think our world needs some inspiring these days.
Listening to: I'm Yours Forever
Reading: The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars
Watching: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ... Embrace the WTFness
Playing: Yomawari: Midnight Shadows... 'cause I apparently long for a cardiac arrest
Eating: Big ass bowl o'pho soup
Drinking: Coffee duh!
Hey everyone,
Hope you're doing well. It's November (holy crap) and I'm embarking on another National Novel Writing Month - 'cause, I'm stupid and that's how I roll. Tonight will be spent playing around with which idea I'm going to chase to its conclusion, be it dieselpunk, steammechs, dragonsouls, werewolves, or cosmic horrors. Or maybe all of the above. With any luck, my editing/writing jobs won't rear their ugly heads, as my clients are off at gaming conventions.
I'm in a weird headspace, though. Been reading and watching a boatload of mangas and anime of late, including Though You May Burn to Ash by Katashi Oniyazu. Do not allow the half-naked angel with the out-thrust bum on the cover fool you, however. This book is some serious psychological nightmare fuel... and I'm desperately waiting until February for the next release. But it got me thinking about flipping standard conventions on their head and wanting to go back to my horror roots. Add to that, my horror projects got published and getting some solid reviews. Even did an interview! O.O Maybe the blood and screams and shadows is where I belong LOL
Anyway, hope at least some of you are doing NaNoWriMo! Good luck to you. And to those who aren't, much love and inspiration as well. I think our world needs some inspiring these days.
I really need to get a handle on things and get back to work. I've been idle for way too long, but I have been working on some small stories that I'm kind of winging as I go just to see where they lead. I have a general idea for my plots but it's no pressure so I can do what I want when I want and produce something so my universes remain active while I figure out my issues with the larger projects.
Anyway, I ordered proof copies of my book that I should have released last year, and I'm pondering what I should do to get my big jobs back on track, but for now I'm still taking it easy.
Rather than spread yourself thin, maybe just knock each project down one at a time?
I've been considering various methods, during the summer I worked on one project almost exclusively until I hit a plot hitch which kind of derailed my brain for way too long (and still has). I'm considering a course correction which would require some significant tweaks but I ideally need to find a way that I can keep up and steadily finish things with appropriate breaks. Do you give yourself a designated day off or something?
I've been having luck with the fun projects, stories with a basic idea just written for the flow of it, kind of winging it so that's been going fairly well, usually a page at a time since it's a warm up/side project.