February 25th 2017: I made up for my hopelessness yesterday and wrote more 1,000 words today, and a new idea came to me which will increase the tension, create another setting for my characters to evolve in, and also, I hope from the readers’ point of view, be a fairly serious development in the story, and… Continue Reading
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15. WRITING CEPHALINA… nope.
February 24th 2017:- Couldn’t write a word this morning, I went absolutely blank, couldn’t read what I had already written to be able assess it, couldn’t focus on what had to come next, I thought I’d try to come back to it later in the day, but I don’t like doing that because my brain… Continue Reading
14. WRITING THE CHILD CEPHALINA… all seems to be flowing now
February 23rd 2017: Yep, the story is flowing properly now. I sometimes think writing fiction is a bit like steering a boat, and once it’s on open water all is well. I’m having to use a lot of restraint in the passages and dialogue pieces involving my main male character and the child, in that… Continue Reading
13. WRITING THE CHILD CEPHALINA… delicate moment
February 22nd 2017: I had a lucky day today with 1,241 words and not much of a struggle with them either. But the passage itself is one of those turning point moments in the novel where the reader might decide that my main male character is suspect, and the friend I gave him some pages… Continue Reading
12. WRITING THE CHILD CEPHALINA… what did the Victorians really know about the mind
February 21st 2017:- I didn’t reach my target 1,000 words today, but I was dealing with a very delicate moment in the story, and I thought it better that I worked on it in order to find the right balance than to skim past it for the sake of my word target …. and while doing… Continue Reading
11.WRITING THE CHILD CEPHALINA… too late to turn back now
February 20th 2017: I was hoping to get more words than I did today. The ones I got down were fine and they seemed to flow pretty well. The tension is increasing between the adult main characters, and the child Cephalina is becoming powerful. Importantly, I’m still totally engaged with the story and I have now… Continue Reading
10. WRITING THE CHILD CEPHALINA… my flow has returned
February 19th 2017: At last I’ve got my flow back. I haven’t gained in word number but lost a bit, I’m averaging out at 926 words per day, so just under the target, but today’s words were much less grinding and difficult than those from yesterday and the day before, so I reckon I will catch… Continue Reading
9. WRITING THE CHILD CEPHALINA… need to step up the energy in the story now.
February 18th 2017:- I’m not falling behind with the word number, but I don’t know about the quality of the words and language. I sense that I’m limping a bit at the moment, this is still chapter five. there had to be a lull in the action and some preparation for what comes later. For instance,… Continue Reading
8. WRITING THE CHILD CEPHALINA… struggling now.
17TH FEBRUARY 2017: I’ve got myself into a sticky patch here; I seem to have lost some writing energy. I should have reached 14,000 words by now, and I’ve only just managed it. Suddenly everything seemed dreary, I was dreary, my characters were dreary, and I couldn’t put one word in front of the other. I… Continue Reading
7. WRITING THE CHILD CEPHALINA… pathetic attempt at writing today.
FEBRUARY 16TH 2017:- ah, well, Feb 16th… what a bummer. I got about 500 words down and the rest of the time, I was tinkering around trying to find something I’d written before that I hadn’t highlighted in red, brown or purple. But I did find the passage and deal with it… can’t remember what… Continue Reading
