All attempts are progress as a writer ❤🎉 I can't wait to hear about your journey writing this novel. I'm on my first draft of my fantasy and I feel the urge everyday to abandon it, but I'm pushing through a little bit more, day by day.
This is such a great and honest self assessment of your writing practice! Bravo!!! (it's one of the hardest things to teach writers that you must reflect and understand how to build your writing habit out of past success/failure in order to reach your goals!) I bailed out of nano for the same reason -- but ONWARD to a successful 2024 autumnal writing season!! (I am half way through writing 'Zettelkasten for Fiction Writers: where imagination finds order' -- so far 35k in, likely 60k to go: LET'S DO THIS!!! We're cheering for you!!!! (and YES to updates, you are an inspiration!)
I love your dedication to writing. It's so lovely and speaks to the true craft of this art form and the might it takes to create something with heart and intention. I've been daydreaming about pursuing a master's in creative writing and just when I think perhaps not, I see you here or on instagram and the daydreaming comes right back at full strength. Good luck with your writing, I can't wait to read your novel in the near future!
Thank you so much for this comment! Intention and dedication are definitely what I strive for in writing, those matter to me even more than the final product sometimes. I just love having a consistent habit of creative practice! I have no idea if this advice would apply to creative writing grad programs the way it does for literature, but a professor gave me this advice before I applied to programs and it made a huge difference for me: often you have to pay for (aka go into debt for) master's programs, whereas PhD programs are often funded, so it's worth considering applying to a PhD! My professor told me to just apply to the PhD, and drop out after getting the MA if I didn't want to continue on any further. Maybe that doesn't make as much sense for creative writing, I just wanted to pass it on!
@@GlutenbergBible There's something about passion for books and writing that is uniquely beautiful. I just love it. Thank you so much for this advice, it's certainly worth looking into! Graduate school without debt is a lovely thing :)
I stopped questioning and fixing my writing. Instead, I write the first draft, send it to others to see what they recommend I fix, fix it, and move on. I learned that if I spend too much time questioning it, I will unintentionally think of a different way of writing it, which usually ends up destroying the original concept. It's not healthy for me since I overthink. Maybe, instead of becoming frustrated with your writing, go back to the original draft, fix up the writing, and send it to others for feedback. Find people who don't want to change your story, but rather see your vision and want to help you tweak it, not change it. But of course, you do you.
I think that's often very good advice! I was definitely torn at the beginning of the year when I decided not to edit that previous novel into a second draft, since I didn't want to self-sabotage by overthinking, as you say. But I felt so much more confident about my new ideas, and was able to kind of salvage the parts that worked from my first novel draft and bring only those parts into my new project, which I thought was a better approach. Maybe I'll end up regretting this choice! But for now, at least, I feel sure about it.
Always A thick blanket of new snow Has come today And hides away the season’s wear Painting it’s beauty on the scenery The sound of my steps is made quiet And in the deep covering My prints seem to follow behind Ghostly record on the unsullied ground I walk alone But the past walks with me The lane underneath buried Knows my feet And will not let me forget For I have tread here before Snow with or without My wandering From you - to you For you Always
Good luck this month!! I love your approach-especially having things you can do in short sessions and things you can do in long sessions. I have “won” 8 NaNoWriMos in my life and two of those were published by a major publisher. If I could recommend anything, I wish I had had Story Genius by Lisa Cron much earlier in my writing life. It would have saved me so much time learning how to write. Highly recommend! It could help you get over that hump of moving from the exposition into the “saggy middle,” which is definitely a place you can easily get stuck.
I wish you a lot of fun this fall/winter with completing your novel! Congrats on your dissertation! That is awesome 😀
All attempts are progress as a writer ❤🎉 I can't wait to hear about your journey writing this novel. I'm on my first draft of my fantasy and I feel the urge everyday to abandon it, but I'm pushing through a little bit more, day by day.
Pushing through little by little is the only way! Yesterday I wrote less than 100 words, but at least I wrote something. We've got this!
This is such a great and honest self assessment of your writing practice! Bravo!!! (it's one of the hardest things to teach writers that you must reflect and understand how to build your writing habit out of past success/failure in order to reach your goals!)
I bailed out of nano for the same reason -- but ONWARD to a successful 2024 autumnal writing season!! (I am half way through writing 'Zettelkasten for Fiction Writers: where imagination finds order' -- so far 35k in, likely 60k to go: LET'S DO THIS!!! We're cheering for you!!!! (and YES to updates, you are an inspiration!)
I love your dedication to writing. It's so lovely and speaks to the true craft of this art form and the might it takes to create something with heart and intention. I've been daydreaming about pursuing a master's in creative writing and just when I think perhaps not, I see you here or on instagram and the daydreaming comes right back at full strength.
Good luck with your writing, I can't wait to read your novel in the near future!
Thank you so much for this comment! Intention and dedication are definitely what I strive for in writing, those matter to me even more than the final product sometimes. I just love having a consistent habit of creative practice!
I have no idea if this advice would apply to creative writing grad programs the way it does for literature, but a professor gave me this advice before I applied to programs and it made a huge difference for me: often you have to pay for (aka go into debt for) master's programs, whereas PhD programs are often funded, so it's worth considering applying to a PhD! My professor told me to just apply to the PhD, and drop out after getting the MA if I didn't want to continue on any further. Maybe that doesn't make as much sense for creative writing, I just wanted to pass it on!
@@GlutenbergBible There's something about passion for books and writing that is uniquely beautiful. I just love it.
Thank you so much for this advice, it's certainly worth looking into! Graduate school without debt is a lovely thing :)
I stopped questioning and fixing my writing. Instead, I write the first draft, send it to others to see what they recommend I fix, fix it, and move on.
I learned that if I spend too much time questioning it, I will unintentionally think of a different way of writing it, which usually ends up destroying the original concept. It's not healthy for me since I overthink. Maybe, instead of becoming frustrated with your writing, go back to the original draft, fix up the writing, and send it to others for feedback. Find people who don't want to change your story, but rather see your vision and want to help you tweak it, not change it.
But of course, you do you.
I think that's often very good advice! I was definitely torn at the beginning of the year when I decided not to edit that previous novel into a second draft, since I didn't want to self-sabotage by overthinking, as you say. But I felt so much more confident about my new ideas, and was able to kind of salvage the parts that worked from my first novel draft and bring only those parts into my new project, which I thought was a better approach. Maybe I'll end up regretting this choice! But for now, at least, I feel sure about it.
Good Luck !
I am excited to see how you will progress in your novels.
I'm excited to see it for myself, really! Hopefully it's a successful challenge :)
Excited to see your progress and journey!
thanks for following along! :)
Always
A thick blanket of new snow
Has come today
And hides away the season’s wear
Painting it’s beauty on the scenery
The sound of my steps is made quiet
And in the deep covering
My prints seem to follow behind
Ghostly record on the unsullied ground
I walk alone
But the past walks with me
The lane underneath buried
Knows my feet
And will not let me forget
For I have tread here before
Snow with or without
My wandering
From you - to you
For you
Always
Good luck this month!! I love your approach-especially having things you can do in short sessions and things you can do in long sessions. I have “won” 8 NaNoWriMos in my life and two of those were published by a major publisher. If I could recommend anything, I wish I had had Story Genius by Lisa Cron much earlier in my writing life. It would have saved me so much time learning how to write. Highly recommend! It could help you get over that hump of moving from the exposition into the “saggy middle,” which is definitely a place you can easily get stuck.