For those who have followed me for a while, yes, I’m still on the low energy phase with the WIP. And as the title indicates, this is a post where I will talk about my strategies for carrying on. But before I delve into my own specifics, I think the most useful thing for managingContinue reading “Tips on Dealing with Low Energy: Moonlake’s Insights”
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The Character based Approach to Story: Moonlake’s Take
The character based approach to story is basically the idea that the character is your story so all you have to do is basically really really inhabit your main character and you are done (if you are writing third person limited or first person. Arguably, it’s useful in omniscient too but there you have toContinue reading “The Character based Approach to Story: Moonlake’s Take”
Moonlake’s Writing Updates- July 2024
I have now switched over to my female protagonist and I’m somewhere in Act 2 for her (her act 1 is pretty much done, unlike my male protagonist). Now, how am I measuring up against set goals? The honest truth is I don’t know. I am now fully in the tunnel and have absolutely noContinue reading “Moonlake’s Writing Updates- July 2024”
Moonlake’s Approach to Writing Exercises
Those who followed my blog for a while should probably know that I’m a whimsical person when it comes to reading and writing. So that’s my approach to writing exercises if I have to sum it up with one word. I bounce around with writing exercises in that if I grow tired of one, IContinue reading “Moonlake’s Approach to Writing Exercises”
The Reading Experience: has Writing Changed it?
For me, the short answer is no. The long answer is well, writing could have changed it in a theoretical sense. Because, like a mechanic, a totally valid way for learning is to take a piece of writing apart and try to reverse engineer something of your own. In that sense, as a writer, oneContinue reading “The Reading Experience: has Writing Changed it?”
Writing Scenes
Those who have been following my blog would probably know that I firmly belong to the planner school in terms of a writer. This is to say that I outline each scene rather than write them on-the-go. But how does my process look like after that, you might wonder. This is what this post isContinue reading “Writing Scenes”
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…”
The following said something about me…
The following said something about me: