Regrouping from an unexpected hard September, I actually achieved my goal for October.
Hoping to achieve my goal for November, I shall set it to be: Writing of the transition between Chapter One and Two.
I had a full week of October to get started on this goal, and I wrote 6,464 words so far. not a bad start, but I suspect this transition should be around 30,000 to 50,000 words in total.
My stretch goal is to write chapter two for this project.
Thank you, everyone that continues to participate in these threads ā it helps others when you do participate, sometimes more than you think.
Iād also like to congratulate @poison_mara and the participants in the Halloween Jam ā¦ it was a well-run and productive event.
Once again, I hope the first day of the month is treating everyone well.
Didnāt get much done for the Halloween Jam on account of me procrastinating and just generally being lazy as all hell. But I have a neat idea for a story (well a rough skeleton) that I think could warrant being written up in choice script, so I want to make that my goal for this month, maybe get a prologue and a first chapter written up, see how people respond to it, I mean Iāve already spent hours writing up characters so I suppose it can be done. CS still feels a little alien, and Iām fighting the urge to not shut it down after ten minutes and play a game instead, but Iām feeling optimistic that I can actually achieve a goal I set for myself this month.
Did very little during October, but just today I did get a bit of a start on converting my Episode story to the Tales platform. Bit of a learning curve, but Iām enjoying it so far.
Itās been a while since I touched my WIP.
I kept thinking of how good stories have identifiable premise (i.e. The Dragoon Saga ā Live the life of a soldier, climbing up ranks, with all the non-niceties of war // Tin Star ā A fraud marshal that becomes attached to the town they govern themselves // XoR ā A rebellion story with a mix of faith/belief issues). Then, looking at my WIP, no uniqueness to it. Too generic of an āaction-adventure fantasy.ā Itās not a bad thing to have a generic AA fantasy, but I donāt like it.
So, last night, I went back to the blueprint. I keep looking inside me: what I truly want to write? Itās kind of cathartic experience, tbh, and quite challenging too. For now, I settle on a premise more specific than generic AA fantasy and wrote a quick one-shot scene based on it, but who knows Iām changing it again.
Maybe Iām shooting myself on the foot. I shouldnāt go try hard on my first writing attempt. Thereās a limit on changing the core of my story before people dismiss the WIP entry. Or I might overthinking this. We will seeā¢ ?
I reeeaaally want to get some stuff done this month.
Whether that will motivate me, or put too much pressure on myself and cause me to procrastinate more than normal, and loose the ability to think creatively, is yet to be seenā¦
Remember you can always send me a message if you have problems/questions.
My goal this month is worldbuilding and outlining for a project. Wonāt probably write much, but at least I get to strech my creative muscles this way. Thatās got to count for something, right?
Simple goal this month. Pushing out enough text to manage an update so I can post something before the end of the month to keep my topic from being locked.
Itās so jarring to wake up and remember that oh! Itās november now? idk but I feel as if everythingās going too fast!
anyways, Iāve completed only half of the prologue (Iāve planned it to be complete after october but itās so hard to gather inspo??) but thatās a start! Iāve only started this project about a month ago so Iām mainly focused on world-building + plotting the entire story! Iāve been worrying about it being too āgenericā-feeling in some way! Hopefully, it doesnāt feel like that at all! There are stories with the same theme as mine and I hope people donāt find it boring just because of that! Anyways, please take care of yourselves and I hope all of you accomplish your goals
October wasā¦so-so. I actually wrote more, and deeper, than before, but my issues still remain.
I wasnāt able to write an Halloween tale I had promised because I canāt menage my time.
As for my main project, while I actually made some small progress, I still have what I named āthe presbyotic issueā: I can see far range (the general scheme, plot) but I canāt figure whatās just in front of me (the specific scene, I can figure certain ones better than others)
October kind of imploded for me in a lot of ways. I managed to get about 8k words written somehow, and kept up with all my patreon content and so forth, but other than that it was a bit rough. Iām hoping for a slightly smoother and more consistent November, and to that end I am reinstating my one sentence a day goal, but not setting myself any other particular word count milestones or stretch goals, as I just donāt think Iām in a place where those will be helpful.
Congrats to everyone for making it through another month of the most difficult year some of us have ever had, and best of luck on your writing (and everything else!) for this one.
Iām actually pretty happy with myself for October. I managed to go from an average of 6k words a week up to 8.5k on average, and Iām shooting for 9 or 10 in November.
A huge contributing part was my quitting the two āgachaā games I played on my phone which were constantly competing for my attention. Bye bye, Brave Exvius, hello more productivity!
Can or will anybody gave me tip to not flustered while writing some hot, sexy, luscious details. I flustered every time while writing, just by words can send shiver down my spine.
My tips are never exciting, lol. Basicly itās this: Write even if you donāt want to. Sometimes you have to force it even if youāre not āfeeling it.ā As often as not, once youāre half an hour in, things will start to flow better even on bad days where youāre less inspired. Even if itās only an hour a day, just do it.
Nobody likes my advice
Roll with it. My scenes get me hot and bothered sometimes too.
It was a serious response. Getting into it on a personal, biological level can actually be very helpful to writing those kind of scenes. If youāre not turned on while writing sexy scenes, why would your readers be?
idk, I think your tips are actually helpful and I understand them? Like, I know how hard it is to write that chapter and all, but you still have to write anyway! But I actually get it so thank you
idk but I feel as if everythingās going too fast!
Do you have any tips on how to increase productivity?
