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WIP Progress Sunday
I have discovered a fatal flaw in the structure of my wip.
I have to re-think so many things, it’s not funny.
I for sure am not going to make my deadline.
Anyone else having problems with their wip and want to commiserate with me?
I have literally spent hours searching through my computer trying to find a single story file that I thought I had remembered being somewhere on my laptop. Apparently not, because I can’t find it anywhere, online or off.
It must be written in a notebook somewhere.
I desperately hope it’s written in a notebook somewhere because otherwise I have lost a very important story file and I will tear my hair out in frustration because I loved that story file.
Happy WIP Progress Sunday everyone!
I am actually here for it this time, and I have great news to report :) I finished draft 0.6! Wohoo! I spent Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday basically on fire, wrote ~5k, and then ~7k, and then ~11k, and ended the draft with ~26.5k, which is 9k more than the last draft. As I typed I also divided the scenes into chapters, so now I have 90 scenes spread among 64 chapters, which feels about right.
It’s still not prose, but I’m getting closer. I think if I keep powering through like this last week, I’ll definitely make my fall semester deadline!
Starting today I’m going to be doing a quick Revision 3 to clarify a few things and fix one particular character arc, and then it’s on to draft 0.7!
I’m open to any questions today, although there will be some radio silence at some point today because I have to sleep for work tonight. But they will be answered today!
Yeah, I finished draft 0.6.
I’ve spent the last three days working on draft 0.6 of WMD, I might get close to the ending by tonight and definitely will finish this draft by my 1pm bedtime tomorrow, and this is how I feel right now:
I keep having to pause my furious typing to express my giddiness to my empty office because I’m enjoying this so much.
WIP Progress Sunday: I'm happy that you were able to write this week! Did anything interesting happen in your wip, or is there a snippet you'd like to share? —wolvesofarcadia :)
Thanks for the questions, @wolvesofarcadia! Sorry it’s taken me so long to get to it. I was away from the internet unexpectedly all day yesterday and then sick most of the day today. Oops.
For my WIP, I’m not quite to writing prose yet. Up until now I’ve been doing individual drafts of bullet point outlines, adding more information each round. Now I’m on draft 0.6, and am starting to turn it into paragraph form, slowly building towards full prose. There have been a few surprises in the writing. For example, my WIP has two nearly identical cultures who used to be one before being separated a few hundred years ago. Now, one of the cultures has healing magic and the other has memory doll magic (see the WIP tag for more information). One of the things I added in this draft is a rumor that the people with healing magic no longer feel pain because of the magic. I thought that was an interesting little tidbit of worldbuilding, and I kind of just came out of nowhere while I was writing.
I hope to be able to start crafting actual prose within the next couple of drafts, so maybe in a few weeks I’ll have something to share? Here’s hoping!
Good morning, everyone! Happy WIP Progress Sunday! School is finally over, summer break has begun, and I'm now back at the writing thing! Hurray! So many exclamation points!
I did write a little bit this week, not a whole lot, but I also kinda sorta came up with a game plan for the summer. My goal is to finish the first prose draft of winter memory dolls by the time school starts again in the fall, which will be a little bit tough to reach, but I think I can manage. In order to do this, though, I had to come up with something that would keep me writing every day. So for the summer I'll actually be working on three projects: winter memory dolls as the main one, with two side projects for when I don't feel like working on WMD but need to write (tentatively called Birds and Song of the Battle Born Children respectfully.)
I'm open to any and all questions!
You know what I’ve been craving? I really want to read a good, juicy YA fantasy like Truthwitch or the Remnant Chronicles. I feel like I’ve read or rejected every YA fantasy there is on the market right now and I just want more.
Guess I better go write something. :)
So. I’ve been absent a few weeks. School is basically kicking my butt this last month of classes. I just have to get through this week and two finals and then I’m done for my junior year. Hurray!
I plan on starting work on my WIP again on the 6th. I’ll participate in WAT and WIP Progress Sunday again after that, when I actually have stuff to report. :)
In other news, my school is having budget issues so, surprise, one of my Very Important classes next fall is being canceled. I’m kinda mad about that because it was a class I was really looking forward to. HOWEVER. Because of this class being canceled, I’m getting an incredible opportunity to TA in a writing intro class. (!) I am extremely excited for this opportunity. (!) I’ve been kinda flying high ever since my advisor offered me this chance. (!) This also means my fall semester won’t be overloaded, like it was going to be with the canceled class.
So many good things to look forward in the future!
Well, I missed WIP Progress Sunday. Oops. I had a rough weekend and basically slept all Sunday, so that happened.
I didn’t get hardly anything done on my WIP last week. Not only was the last week a rough week with school, but my last revision also kind of sucked my enthusiasm for the story out. I mean, not entirely, but I worked so hard on the revision that I think I need a break for a few weeks before I jump back into it.
I’m going to try to finish cleaning up after the revision mess this week, I think I still have seven or eight more scenes to finish updating or writing. After that, I’m going to set it aside for 3 to 4 weeks so the story can percolate.
In the meanwhile, during the percolating process, I’m going to pick up another one of my WIPs, BDTUA, which I wrote for NaNoWriMo in 2015. I’ll post more about it later.
Hullo. Here for wip progress Sunday. Did any piece of music inspire you this week. If so which and in what sense?^^
Thanks for the question!
Actually, no, there wasn’t any music that inspired my WIP this week. For this WIP I’ve mostly been listening to extended Skyrim music on Youtube, especially calm and soothing music with some rain in the background. Mostly because I can’t write in complete silence, but I am trying to move away from listening to music with lyrics that can distract me.
I do have one song that I occasionally listen to that kind of fits with my story, vaguely, is Swan Song by Dua Lipa from the Alita: Battle Angel soundtrack.
WIP Progress Sunday!
I got home from work this morning and hadn’t even realized that it was WPS today! Woot!
So this week hasn’t been quite as productive as the other weeks. I finished draft 0.4 on Monday, ending with 25 pages and 14,318 words. I felt really good about the draft, it really felt like things were coming together.
And then I messed it all up by following my plan and doing a second revision.
Tuesday I started the revision and almost immediately realized how much work it was going to take to fix things. And it took a heck of a lot of work. Tuesday-Friday I did nothing but work on the revision, trying to work out what I needed, how I was going to fix things, and rearranging the outline to get everything working smoothly again. Then I had to fix the timeline again, rearranging the scenes again, and by the end of Friday I had finally finished getting things fixed from the absolute mess I had made trying to revise it.
Saturday was my rest day this week, which I have found to be very important to my continued creativity, but also because Saturday and Sunday I have an annual religious conference I’m watching online.
I’ll be answering any questions you have for me while I work on getting the draft ready for draft 0.5, meaning adding stuff for the 16 new scenes I had to add. :|
Dream of Covers
I was tagged by the lovely @rainy-rose , thanks so much, dear!
So, the rules are: pick 3+ pictures that fit with the vibe of the WIP, and that might work as prompt images for the cover. Then answer a couple of questions!
Pictures:
What are the motifs?
1. This first image is a picture Gyeongbokgung, a palace in Seoul, S. Korea, in winter. I picked this picture because my WIP is set in an ancient Korea-esque setting, during winter. I love the architectural style of Korea.
2. The next image is meant to invoke the relationship between the two main characters, Rahi and Gijoon.
3. The final image is supposed to be of the main character Rahi, specifically at a moment late in the novel during the first climax when she does something completely crazy and dangerous in order to stop a war. Honestly, this is one of my favorite sequences in the novel. :)
Style? Photo, airbrushed, anime, etc.?
Honestly, my favorite covers are those of the Witchland series by Susan Dennard, and I would love my own covers to look as good as those do. So something like that.
Color? B/W?
Color. Or maybe black and white with a single color for highlight. Like red.
Details? Anything specific? Gloss, matte, velvet?
I think it would look great with a matte cover with the same texture as The Archived by Victoria Schwab.
Limited Edition or Collector’s Edition?
Uuuuuuummmmmmm... Honestly, I don’t really like the idea of either. It’s really just a way to get more money out of people, and I’d rather not do that. As someone who has struggled with money sometimes, I want people to be able to afford nice books. Maybe if my publisher was insistent, I would be okay with a limited edition with a dust jacket that’s a single color, like white or something, and underneath the dust jacket is the normal cover. I think that would be pretty cool.
This was actually pretty fun!
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In a presentation today in my prose class my classmates, who were presenting, called Little Women and Sherlock Holmes fanfiction. I don’t know how to feel about this.
Well, I finished draft 0.4 this evening. Starting tomorrow I’m going to be working on revision #2 and the biggest thing I’m worried about right now is the fact that I have a MAJOR piece of important information about the magic system that is vital to the solving of the main problem coming out at the 86% mark in the story in a truly dramatic scene that I really love and can’t really move anywhere else. But I hear it’s bad form to give any new information after the 75% mark, so I need to figure out a way to get the information out earlier, without compromising the epicness of the scene at 86%. :|
Any ideas?
Hullo. Here for WIP progress Sunday! Firstly congrats for your progress this week! Secondly: How did you come up with the names for the characters/kingdoms? Do they mean something specifically?
Thanks! I’m pretty happy with my progress, despite having two more rest days than I meant.
For the character names: basically, my whole setting is loosely based on the Korean Peninsula in the Joseon Dynasty, which admittedly is a very long stretch of time. But the point being, I wanted to make the language vaguely Korean-sounding. I already had two names to work with from the short story, Gideon and Hiram, which are both Hebrew names obviously. When writing the short story I had kind of just thrown the name Gideon (meaning great warrior) in there as the main character, and then added Hiram’s name (meaning beloved brother) to fit with Gideon. So once I had decided on the Korea-esque setting I had to change the names. Gideon became Gidon (pronounced /gi-dohn/), and Hiram, normally pronounced /High-rum/, changed to /Hee-lam/. With these changes, and fitting with the Korean system of names, I figured that Gi meant great or powerful and Don meant warrior, so Hi meant beloved and Ram meant brother.
Okay, so taking those names and meanings, and wanting to create a small connection between the short story and the novel, I thought of some combinations of single syllable sounds until I came up with Rahi, which means strong and beloved (see the connection to Hiram?). I wanted her name to reflect her inner strength of character and how her people feel about her.
For my male main character it was much the same, I used the four syllables I already had, now five with the added Ra, and did some mixing until I came up with Gijoon, which means great or powerful and gentle (see the connection to Gidon?) I wanted his name to reflect his character as well, showing that he is powerful but also a gentle soul.
For the place names: Still working with the Korea-esque setting idea. I kind of happened upon the syllable Kang, which in actual Korean means river. For this one, I played around with etymology a bit, and started with the river meaning. Originally, way back in the past of my story’s world, the word Kang did mean river, but because the original homeland was made up of lots of rivers and the people tended to build their cities on the rivers, then Kang came to mean “a place on the river”. Then, as the civilization grew and became a large nation, Kang came to mean “the people who live in places on the river”, and so Kang turned into the name of the nation.
Then, roughly 400 years before the start of my story, a great cataclysm happened that destroyed the land, burying it under water, and the people were forced to flee in ships west across the sea. Just before they landed on a new continent, the fleet was split in two by a storm, and the two groups landed on either side of a very large mountain range. Each group wanted to name their new home as some variant of their old home, so each group incorporated Kang into their new name. For the other two parts, Sana and Esun, I’m still working on the etymology of those, but I picked them because they sounded pretty and flowed well with Kang.
It's WIP Progress Sunday! How are you? 💙 What's your favourite part about drafting? How do you come up with ideas/what inspires them?
Hiya! I’m doing pretty good, thanks!
My favorite part about drafting… Hmmm… I think it would have to be the finishing part. It doesn’t happen very often because a lot of the time I get distracted or discouraged and end up dropping a project (fingers crossed it doesn’t happen to winter memory dolls!) and so when I do manage to finish something I really get a big rush of happy emotions and I feel like I am a productive writer.
As for ideas, I totally steal from other art. I have a whole ton of stories floating around my hard drive that are based on music videos, I have at least one old story that’s based on a piece of art I once saw, several stories are based on TV show premises, sometimes my stories are based on a specific character I really liked from something. I just am really good at taking what others have created and turning it into someone unique just for me.
For example, my current WIP, winter memory dolls, is based on a short story I wrote for my prose class this semester in college, and that short story was basically me rewriting a particular Korean drama because I hadn’t seen the ending yet and I wanted it to go a certain way. Of course, my story has almost nothing to do with the drama, but it came from the same basic premise of “king’s bodyguard is plotting to kill the king in revenge for the death of a loved one”. Winter memory dolls has nothing to do with that premise, but it is set in the same world, maybe 50 years later, because while writing the short story I fell in love with the magic system I had created and I couldn’t stop thinking about all the implications.
So that’s how I come up with ideas, I’m basically an art thief. :)