Tag Archives: writing

Showing and telling

I now have 2,315 words on the re-restarted Rukan and am near to finishing the last scene of chapter one. I am tentatively excited. So I’m feeling better now. Latest writer angsty freak out has passed. At least for this week.

600 words

I started again on Rukan yesterday, after my freak-out. Right from the beginning. I wrote slowly, carefully. I put down about 600 words. Not much. But they were good words, they made me happy. They sparked.

Words & teeth

Argh. I am having one of those writer freak outs. I don’t have a good idea. Everything I write is shit. I’m never going to make it. etc until eternity. And in other far more thrilling and exciting news, I saw a dentist this week and WOW.

Kate & the infinite homework

No progress on any of the short stories. Long stuff — I’m dallying between Rukan and The Other You. A few words here & there on my writing nights.

Another one plan to rule them all. Better than the last one.

My latest idea for getting me to write regularly is, well… it’s working. So far.After work, 2 days a week, I take Mini Mini my new little laptop to a cafe which does NOT have wifi. And I sit down and I write for 1.5 to 2 hours.

Too much sandwich, not enough demon hunting

Last week, I had this thought that I’d started Rukan in the wrong place. It wasn’t working in its current structure. In my head I sketched out a different starting place (where I’d initially reckoned on maybe book2 started at) but it all sounded like backstory. If you read it first, you’d think you were reading a sequel.

Over the edge to infinity & beyond

Just a little writing update. I am feeling this urgency to be writing lately, this pressure to be a writer, to just f***ing do it already.

There are plans and more plans

Latest brilliant idea to get me writing consistently? Write after work but not at home. It’s like the gym thing.