N.S.Angel

Well I took the advice of not going back to edit things while I’m still working to finish the first draft and it has helped a lot. Even though ideas change as I’m writing, I am realizing that revising is where we make it all make sense!

I’ve just hit 50k words in the first draft and It’s hard to say how much is left, but probably another 20-25k to finish the idea?

I was also reminded of a little children’s book that I wanted to write, so I may work on that too. It would be like 10 pages. It’s already done but I’d love to make the illustrations. It’s about funghi! 🙂

Anyways thank you for reading and see you next time. Love you bye.

Well, I’ve been listening to Brandon Sanderson lectures and I feel personally attacked by him.

I know we can’t just listen to authors talk and take everything as fact, all of the advice is subjective and we take what is helpful and break the rest of the rules. He did say something that was very helpful which was that I may be more of a discovery writer. I guess discovery writers sometimes have an outline but they write more start to finish, ish. They just dive in and go for it. A main crime of discovery writers is they tend to go back and revise chapters all the time before they are even done writing the first draft of the book and gettig the story out there, and so they may have written 100,000 words but most of those words are just… re doing old work we’ll probably have to go back and fix again once we are actually done writing the story.

Gosh! Well that’s something I am so guilty of, and so I decided NOT to do that. Maybe go change very small things, but I really need to just plow through the first draft and get it down, then go back and edit. Anyways since I decided that I’ve been writing quite a lot and have made lots of progress! I still have lots and lots to write but I’m not going to worry about going back until I’ve gotten to the end at least once.

Anyways that’s my update for today. 🙂

Let’s be honest, I forgot I had this website. Hopefully that’s endearing and relatable.

I was diagnosed with ADHD last year, and everything made more sense as to why I am the way I am. Its not an excuse, I still need to find processes to get things done, but it was a relief to know that the way I functioned was not entirely in my control.

ANYWAYS. I may have forgotten about this website, but I DID NOT forget about my book and I must update that I’m about 45,000 words into my first draft. The fact that even a year + in I am still working on the same project is so crazy and I’m so happy and proud of myself. I also have to thank my friends for putting in their time and care into reading and giving their feedback as I go.

So now that I remembered this is here, I’ll do my best to give more updates.

Okay, love you bye.

I wrote 3,626 words in January, but I thought hundreds of thousands.

Its fascinating how much thinking is involve in writing. Obviously this is a first draft, so it’s a bit more of an outlined brain dump that I will sort through later, but there are still hours of just… thinking. Ideas running around in my head, images and scenes, inspirations. Sometimes I imagine my own characters in the modern world - what would they be like?

Also, writing romance is actually kid of hard? I have pieces of it. I know the start and finish of them, but damn writing the stuff in the middle to actually get there is work! I’ve got some good chemistry going, it’s just making it believable. I get so annoyed with books when the main romance just… happens? With no essence? It happens because it needs to, but I like to see why. I like to see the disagreements and the authentic funny moments, the shared experience.

Anyway! Progress is being made, I’ve got some middle meat to work through. 🙂

Thanks for reading!

Hello Hello.

I thought it would be helpful to set up some realistic goals for myself this year in terms of writing.

When I was doing some research on fiction novels I believe it was an average of 80-100k words for your first, between 50-60 scenes. Currently I have about 8,000 words floating around, though a lot of it is brain dump and exploration rather than true excerpts. I have a pretty solid 3 Act structure layout, so my next task is to write a point form of each thing that happens, and figure out my 50-60 scenes!

I think realistically by the end of the year I should be well into editing at least a second or final draft.

My big timeline for 2024:

• Complete point form & scene list by February 29th, 2024.
• Complete first draft by September 30th, 2024
• Editing Completed December 31st, 2024.

I hope this is reasonable. A lot of the brain work has happened and I need to work on the pieces in between that connect the main scenes.

Very exciting! Thanks for tuning in, and see you next time.