The opening line is from You Can’t Have it All by Barbara Ras. It wasn’t a prompt that I took well but I did manage to move into it after the first two paragraphs. I wrote this about one year or two years back. I had been moving away from Wild Writing because to beContinue reading “You can’t have it all but there is this…”
Category Archives: Moonlake’s Writings
I see the way…
The jump off lines is from Collecting Light by Deb Cooper and this is from a day when I’m not feeling the prompt: I see the way my fingers dip into the trough of hand cream and withdraw while leaving the shape intact. I see the way, or rather feel the way, this pen I’mContinue reading “I see the way…”
Let’s take an inventory of obsessions:
Not sure where the jumping off line (let’s take an inventory of obsessions) is from but it says all about this piece. Let’s take an inventory of obsessions: Chinese lore, I know that’s too broad but hard to refine this. I mean, I’m interested in an assortment of stuff that I group in under it:Continue reading “Let’s take an inventory of obsessions:”
Writing Goals 2025
The broad goal is to get to draft 0.84 which I didn’t get to last year. To be honest, it’s gotten to the point where the delineation between my decimal drafts is pretty arbitrary. I’m incrementing a draft whenever I see significant progress. As to what constitutes as significant, even I don’t have an answerContinue reading “Writing Goals 2025”
Sometimes I lose my way…
This is from Write New Headlines by Andy Stanley. Sometimes I lose my way. Usually in the small things but then that’s usually how it goes. Sometimes I lose my way. More often I stick to known paths. That’s what you do if you’re direction blind. And prudent. Sometimes I lose my way, in time. Continue reading “Sometimes I lose my way…”
Moonlake’s Writing Updates- December 2024
I have to be honest and say that I had to revisit my Writing Goals for 2024 post in order to write this. In short, I did not meet my broad goal at all. I’m still at draft 0.83. In terms of the finer goals, the first is redundant. I had definitely gone past theContinue reading “Moonlake’s Writing Updates- December 2024 “
I wonder why people never…
The jump-off line is actually invented by Laurie Wagner, inspired by An Ordinary Day by Jean Reinhold. I wonder why people never expect things to go wrong until they do? Inborn optimism or protagonist syndrome? I wonder why people never talk about the failures or think about them even if they are talked about? WhyContinue reading “I wonder why people never…”
Cracking the Omniscient Voice
I have been making some attempts at ‘cracking’ the omniscient voice in that I wanted to try to dip my hands into writing in that voice even though I won’t be using that particular for a long time (the truth is that my WIP has quite a long way to go still but I doContinue reading “Cracking the Omniscient Voice”
Writing updates- Feb 2024
This is now my second round at my male protagonist (the first round was abandoned somewhere in Act 2 when I felt like I haven’t really gotten back into him so I started from scratch) but the truth is I’m so much into my procrastination mood (I’m a bit tired with the reiteration approach thatContinue reading “Writing updates- Feb 2024”
She feels the river shift…
The jump-off line is from Some Feel Rain by Joanna Klink. She feels the river shift. She feels the mountain shift. Everything is always moving. She feels the river shift. She feels time itself shift. She feels the river shift. It is always shifting. She feels the river shift. Her childhood shifts and she cannotContinue reading “She feels the river shift…”
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