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[nadiasayre]

Sad and angry at the actions of VGP press that led to this (all within 24 hours, whew!), but glad it’s being canceled if the original author behind the idea was not being credited.

#publishing #anthology #violet gaze press #rm virtues

[nadiasayre]

BREAKING NEWS:

#short story #anthology #violet gaze press #monster lover #mothman

[nadiasayre]

Save for some chapter combining and the subsequent renumbering, Part One Draft 1.5 is done! It's ready for readers, even though it won't be seen until Part Two is also done.

#on writing #on editing #untitled wip

[nadiasayre]

how do you guys come up with titles for your stories?

— sincerely a writer who has come up with (2) titles in the span of (4) years and one of them was a complete accident

#me and all my untitled works in progress would love to know #on writing #writing #untitled wip #titles

[nadiasayre]

"Leave notes about what you want to insert and then go back and add the details in later!" works great when you're writing but then the day comes when it's later and you're in absolute hell.

#on writing #am writing #am editing #writing #editing #untitled wip

[nadiasayre]

Is it possible to somehow be all of them? But mostly a Mashup of the Pantsers

Lawful Pantser

Writes everything in order

Uses flashlight method to get to the end

Ends up in strange places

Knows random details no one else cares about

Neutral Pantser

Writes things as they come to them

Not afraid to bounce around

Knowing the ending makes it boring

Chaotic Pantser

Writes completely out of order

What the fuck is a plot?

Loves side fiction and writes whatever they’re excited about

Lawful Plantser

Knows the ending, writes toward it

Loves to worldbuild

Uses character bios/has definitely taken personality tests for their characters

True Plantser

Starts an outline

Goes off script and ends up in unexpected places

But that’s okay because this is more interesting anyways

Chaotic Plantser

Has an idea of a plot when they start

who writes things down???

has to assemble scenes into a frankendraft

Lawful Plotter

Has detailed character bios

Multi-page outline organized by scene/chapter

Probably knows what colour socks their MC wears on Tuesdays

Neutral Plotter

Brief outline

Likes to use beat sheets

Modifies and updates as they go

Thinks about writing character bios, rarely does

Chaotic Plotter

Writes scene on little cards and tries to organize them on a board

Writes said scenes out of order

Copy and paste is your friend

[creator]

#writing #on writing #alignment chart #writer alignment chart #pantser with a touch of plantser

[nadiasayre]

When you think a word is going to be too modern to use in your historical fantasy setting but actually it's old AF

#writing #on writing #editing #untitled wip #word origin #smut the word

[nadiasayre]

Plenty has been said about the flaws with the "you have to write every day" advice, so I won't waste time qualifying what I'm about to say- it's advice that doesn't work for a lot of people for a lot of reasons.

Unfortunately for me, it's the only advice that works. My writing success is based entirely on momentum. Sometimes "writing every day" looks like typing "the" and nothing else. Sometimes it's deleting a sentence but adding nothing. But it has to happen every day to keep propelling me forward.

The month of March has been so focused on preparing to move, then the actual move, and now we're unpacking. It's been a week in the new place but of course we're both still working full time, errands still need to be run, and there's a recovery period. The only time I've opened Scrivener in about a month was to make sure the files opened when I reinstalled the program in my new computer!

I'm filled with anxiety about how the rest of these edits will go. I was at a tricky point when life interrupted, it's going to be even trickier to jump back in and regain my momentum. I'm honestly afraid, and also frustrated that I'm still delayed but there are things that have to take priority!

I wish "write every day" wasn't the advice that worked for me. I can only hope diving back in after a brief hiatus hasn't harmed me too much.

#on writing #writing #am writing #untitled wip #am editing #writing tips #editing #writing advice #write every day

[nadiasayre]

I feel like there needs to be an author alignment chart

Chaotic Evil is writing on your phone in the dark with no glasses on (me)

#lawful good most of the time #with a smidge of lawful evil true neutral and chaotic evil as the need arises #writing #on writing #alignment chart

[nadiasayre]

My average chapter length is looking to be around 1500 words each. I’m not trying to hit that range, but it seems to be where natural breaks happen. That means I’m looking at around 70 chapters (as of now, some might be combined or more might be split.) I, personally, prefer shorter chapters as a reader. In addition to providing stopping points they also keep me moving and make the progress in a book feel more real. It also seems like that’s a high number of chapters. Trying not to concern myself with this too much, though. It’s only draft 1.5 so who knows what will happen during the next round of edits.

#on writing #am writing #am editing #untitled wip #chapters

[nadiasayre]

It’s not actually a self drag, but writing it felt a little ironic.

#am writing #on writing #am editing #untitled wip

[nadiasayre]

The real measure of a writer is what oddly specific tropes show up constantly in their work and make you question What Happened

#idk what mine are but i'm sure they're there! #on writing #am writing #am editing

[nadiasayre]

I have ten chapters edited! Given how they keep splitting and growing I don’t know how many that ten is out of, but it seems to be at least 40! My revised goal is to have the Part 1 (or First Year, since the story is set at a university and the passage of time structured around a school year) finished by Valentine’s, as it’s not looking promising to have the whole book at draft 1.5 by then.

#on writing #writing #am writing #am editing #untitled wip

[nadiasayre]

Today’s the first day since I started this absolutely heinous editing process that I’ve had a net negative word count and there’s honestly something a little bit exhilarating to know that I’ve trimmed the fat and that the words left are better for it.

#am writing #on writing #writing #am editing #untitled wip

[nadiasayre]

A new notebook to help me take quick notes as I work on edits, featuring the art of @musterni-illustrates (Amrit Brar). I know I could have gotten a pack of composition books cheap, but I'm glad I splurged on something distinctive.

#am writing #writing #am editing #untitled wip #amrit brar #shitty horoscopes #Aries #notebook #wip

[nadiasayre]

Going through and cataloging assorted things while editing. Unsure why I chose this phrasing for this but here we are...

#writing #on writing #am writing #untitled wip #am editing

[nadiasayre]

Some nights my writing just annoys me. It’s not the plot, or the characters, or that there’s any kind of “writers’ block,” it’s just that I am painfully aware of the things that I overuse, the repetitive way I construct sentences, the amount of times I begin a scene with someone waking up, or someone starts a sentence with “oh.”

These are all things that can be fixed with edits so I try not to dwell on them and move past in the moment, but sometimes they just stand out so much I can’t help but fixate on these little things I do that I find annoying and it impedes my progress.

#on writing #am writing #writing #untitled wip