I’m briefly back but I am not officially coming back to the blogging world until next year. Before I go into my writing plan, I thought I would briefly go back what’s been happening in my blogging absence. So long story short is that I’ve been caught up in a personal reflection spell in July-Continue reading “Writing Plan”
Category Archives: Writing Updates
Moonlake’s Writing Updates (8)
I am someone who is always more cautious about sharing bad news but the truth is that I’ve been a bit lost over these 2 months for my novel. Technically I’m not that lost but I haven’t been adding word counts on a daily basis and I haven’t been doing work for the novel onContinue reading “Moonlake’s Writing Updates (8)”
Sneak Peek: My Tentative Next Series
What?! You have a next series already lined up when you haven’t officially debuted with a single book yet? I know most of you are thinking this but it is true. In fact, if I look at my commercial project list document (to be distinguished from my idea journal where anything goes although the distinctionContinue reading “Sneak Peek: My Tentative Next Series”
Writing updates (7)
I’m now a little more than halfway through draft 0.5, the next draft was to be draft 0.8 before I left for my holidays but now I think there will be a draft 0.6 and then I don’t know how many drafts it will be until I feel I call something draft 1. When IContinue reading “Writing updates (7)”
Moonlake’s Writing updates (6)
So I had previously alluded to the fact that I’m working on a first draft (well, I’m calling it a 0.5 draft now, that gives me much more room to be rough and not use perfectionism as an excuse for procrastination). In this post, I thought I would elaborate a bit more on it. First,Continue reading “Moonlake’s Writing updates (6)”
Writer’s Achievement Diary- 23 July 2017
Mon 17/07/2017 Revised 2 major plotlines reported as problematic by pre-alphas (equivalent to 2 achievements) Determined the overall shape of revision required up to chap 30 Tue 18/07/2017 Resolved 1 loose plot-point in iteration 1 Worked through to the end of book 1 and tagged down chapters for expansion/revision after collapsing of scenes Wed 19/07/2017Continue reading “Writer’s Achievement Diary- 23 July 2017”
Writer’s Achievement Diary- 16 July 2017
Mon 10/07/2017 Real life and unexpected Internet connection loss held me up. Tue 11/07/2017 Finished Chap 32 Fleshed out Scene 1, chap 33 (previously a floating scene) 20 grids filled for Sin Sin Wed 12/07/2017 Rough gist for scene 2, chap 33 Scene 1, chap 34 Thu 13/07/2017 Scene 2, chap 33 Fri 14/07/2017 ExpandedContinue reading “Writer’s Achievement Diary- 16 July 2017”
Writer’s Achievement Diary- 9 July 2017
Mon 3/07/2017 Took a break Tue 4/07/2017 Amended chap 25 Wed 5/07/2017 Scene 1, chap 26 Chap 26 done Thu 6/07/2017 Scene 2, chap 27 partially written Fri 7/07/2017 Train problem, took a break today Sat 8/07/2017 20 grids filled for Lee Won Sun 9/07/2017 21 grids filled for Lee Won (goal=20) 20 grids filledContinue reading “Writer’s Achievement Diary- 9 July 2017”
Writer’s Achievement Diary- 2 July 2017
Mon 26/06/2017 Decided on rough gist of chaps 21-25, 31-35 Scene 1, chap 21 (half) A floating scene but will definitely be incorporated somewhere in these 10 chapters Tue 27/06/2017 Completed scene 1, chap 21 Chap 21 done Pegged down the floating scene Decided on rough gist of Chap 31 Scene 1, chap 22 ChapContinue reading “Writer’s Achievement Diary- 2 July 2017”
Writer’s Achievement Diary- 25 June 2017
Mon 19/06/2017 Decided on how to proceed by switching pace of alternating narration Tue 20/06/2017 Amended scene 2 of chap 20 Wed 21/06/2017 Removing 2 chapters’ worth of scenes from chaps 11-20 to fix up timing bug Thu 22/06/2017 Completely restructured sequence of scenes by switching the order of narrative alternation Scene 1, chap 9Continue reading “Writer’s Achievement Diary- 25 June 2017”