N.S.Angel

  • Words and thoughts

    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!

  • 2024 Goals

    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.

  • Welcome!

    You may be wondering what this is about… I’m writing a book!

    As you may already know I dabble in a whole lot of artistic things from painting, sculpture, crafts, stitch works, videos… Wow, my ADHD is showing.

    Writing is also something I’ve always enjoyed. Ideas for scenes, stories, people, and worlds are always floating around in my head. I have a folder that contains at least a dozen book ideas and there’s always more. Many people say write about what you want to say, and I have a lot to say.

    In March 2023 the unthinkable happened – my partner of 9 years died suddenly in an accident. I became a widow.

    This brought a lot of challenges, naturally, and I searched for any kind of relatable content to consume to make me feel less alone. I watched videos, looked at art about grief, read books about death, found widows who gave love another chance…

    And yet none of them really did it for me. They touched me but I just didn’t fully connect with any of it, and no one was saying the things I was thinking.

    So, I decided I would use writing as a process of healing. I would write my own misbeliefs into a character and send her on a fantastical adventure in my stead full of danger, mystery, and even new love. I would learn from myself through the eyes of a fictional character, and also write about stuff I love like magic and romance at the same time.

    The story is about a witch named Willow navigating love, loss, and abandonment when a handsome young warlock comes to her for answers about the mysterious mists that claimed her husbands life.

    If this interests you, welcome to the journey!