This is a question I’ve seen around, and one that I have to reckon with in Brother Shadow: how do you keep an arrogant character likable? How do you use this as a flaw without making the character completely infuriating? Here’s my theory on how to keep them just the right amount of infuriating. . … Continue reading Making An Arrogant Character Likable, pt1/2
My brain works in cycles these days. . I have an ever-growing list of books I want to read. It exists alongside an identically organized (that is, whatever order I thought of them) list of movies and TV shows I want to watch, and a highly dissimilar (that is, painstakingly curated) list of stories that … Continue reading I’m Reading Too Many Books At Once (hooray?)
A few years ago, these went around briefly as a meme on some corner of either Tumblr or Twitter, I don’t fully remember which. They never really caught on, but I really enjoyed the concept, so I’ve kept my personal bingo card of tropes hanging around since then. Years later, the original still holds pretty … Continue reading Authorial Bingo
If you write in any kind of volume, you start to notice that you have some calling cards. I made a bingo card out of mine. Next post will be an explanation of each square, but for now:
You know that nagging feeling that you forgot to do something? That feeling is a way of life when you have ADHD, and its not always possible to mentally retrieve whatever the thing was in the first place. Last Tuesday, that feeling came from not posting a post, which I didn’t actually notice until I … Continue reading 150 Days! Also DANGERT I forgot to post about it
I'll talk about this more on Tuesday, but I wanted to acknowledge the milestone meanwhile. Technically this happened on Sunday, but it was still there when I went to update today, so I got another chance to screenshot it. Of course, a bunch of the updates are a single sentence in a day, but you … Continue reading Milestone!
Image via Wikimedia Commons A third post this week?! Astonishing. I guess I'm feeling inspired by reaching 90 straight days of adding to my big project. So, I want to actually explain what I'm working on. . Here's the pitch so far: . "Deep underground in the city of Dendograath, the social-climbing Telena family finds … Continue reading So what am I actually working on?
90 days! 25% done! Woo! Of course about 2,000 words of that is outline so far, but I'll still count it given the size of the draft overall. I'm back up to a few days worth of buffer after a week or so of very low word count entries too. It's been rockier than I … Continue reading Bonus Post: 90 Days LETS GOOOO
Nice round numbers all the way across the NaNo Tracker, lets go.
Dramatic Pause 