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If your character were to get a tattoo, what would it be? Would it be something with a deep meaning, or would it just be for funsies?
Bonus: Which of your characters would get a drunk tattoo and regret it in the morning (or maybe even not regret it)?
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Help Me Start a Literary Magazine! | The Fruity Review Masthead Applications
Hey Writblr!
I have some exciting news, which has been spoiled a bit by my title. I'm starting a literary magazine!!
I'm calling it The Fruity Review My vision is that it will be a magazine run by queer youth, publishing queer youth. If it came down to it, I could probably run the magazine by myself, but in order to give it it's best shot I wanted to get a small crew of 5-6 people (including me) to work together on it. Here are some positions that I'm looking to fill:
-Submission Editor
-1-2 Social Media Managers (Tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram)
-1-2 Social Media Media Content Creators
Some people may fill multiple roles, it'll all depend on who's intrested. If you are intrested, here is a form for you to fill out. Applications will close 5/31, and I'll reach out to people the first week of June. Some important information before you apply:
a. I would like The Fruity Review to be run by queer people, so only apply if you fit somewhere on the LGBTQIA2+ radar
b. This will be a labor of love. I'm not making any money, you won't be making any money. Please don't apply if you need to spend your time elsewhere.
This is probably annoying, but below the cut line I'll be tagging a of my mutals. Forgive me! Feel free to give this a share, thank you!
Hi! I've had a crazy couple of weeks and did not give this the proper promotion this deserves, so I'm extneding the deadline for applications to the 15th of June! A little over two weeks left to apply!
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Help Me Start a Literary Magazine! | The Fruity Review Masthead Applications
Hey Writblr!
I have some exciting news, which has been spoiled a bit by my title. I'm starting a literary magazine!!
I'm calling it The Fruity Review My vision is that it will be a magazine run by queer youth, publishing queer youth. If it came down to it, I could probably run the magazine by myself, but in order to give it it's best shot I wanted to get a small crew of 5-6 people (including me) to work together on it. Here are some positions that I'm looking to fill:
-Submission Editor
-1-2 Social Media Managers (Tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram)
-1-2 Social Media Media Content Creators
Some people may fill multiple roles, it'll all depend on who's intrested. If you are intrested, here is a form for you to fill out. Applications will close 5/31, and I'll reach out to people the first week of June. Some important information before you apply:
a. I would like The Fruity Review to be run by queer people, so only apply if you fit somewhere on the LGBTQIA2+ radar
b. This will be a labor of love. I'm not making any money, you won't be making any money. Please don't apply if you need to spend your time elsewhere.
This is probably annoying, but below the cut line I'll be tagging a of my mutals. Forgive me! Feel free to give this a share, thank you!
Dear LGBTQ people trying to figure out who they “need to” come out to:
Your identity is your business and nobody else’s. If you want to share it with the world, that’s wonderful! If you don’t feel comfortable sharing it with certain people, you don’t need to and it’s perfectly fine! Others knowing your identity is not a necessity, it is a luxury. And you’re the only one who gets to decide whether or not they deserve it.
hello! here’s a commission piece that I finished last week!i really loved how it turned out :)) by MlCHIE
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(is it pathetic that I go on unannounced hiatus so often that I have a specififc banner for it? probably)
Hey Writblr!
Been a hot minute! I don't want to get too much into the details, but I had some mental health troubles and needed to take a break from posting and writing. My orginal plan was to take the entire month of April off from posting and from my "write" every day challenge, but I'm in much a better spot than I was a month ago, and with my semester wrapping up, I've found myself having free time for the first time in forever. So I've decided instead to slowly return to my old posting habits over the next few weeks.
Starting tonight, I'll go back to my daily posts updating the "write" every day challenge. I also have a couple of tags that I'm going to post this week. It might be a little longer until I'm back to my update posts.
To wrap up this post on a high note, I have another publication! My poem "Mama" is going to be published by Inlandia next month. This is my first big publication, and I'm excited to share my favorite poem I've ever written with you guys once it's out.
See you soon!
Cheers,
-Ev
30 Day Writblr Challenge Day 16 | What's more important to you: worldbuilding, characters, or plot?
Hey Writblr,
Day sixteen of the #chazzawrites challenge, and today's question is what is more important to you: worldbuilding, characters, or plot?
For me, definetly characters. Most of my stories start with an idea for the main character or a set of characters. It's also what I spend the most time prepping before I start writing, and what I pour the most of my energy into when drafting.
That's all for today! I'll see you all tommorrow!
Cheers,
-Ev
30 Day Writing Challenge Day 15 | Are you a plotter, a pantser, or somewhere in the middle?
Hey Writeblr, Day fifteen of the #chazzawrites challenge! Halfway there! Today's question is: are you a ploter, pantser, or somewhere in the middle? Honestly, I'm not sure. It depends on the genre or form of the project, and how unhinged I'm feeling. In the past, I've throughly plotted projects and done a disastrous NaNoWriMo with essentially only vibes. But generally speaking my process looks something like this: Video game: outline Poetry: just vibes Novels: a mix, kind of outlining as I go Short Story: mostly vibes, sometimes I write down a very loose scene order if I kind of know what I'm doing That's all I have today. I'll see y'all tomorrow! Cheers, -Ev
"Write" Every Day--March
Wow, we're already on month three! If you don't know, I'm attempting to "write" every day of this year. Here's a little more on the rules:
1. What counts as “writing”: drafting, editing, pre-writing (outlining, writing summaries, exercises, etc.)
1a. Must be a personal project. Any writing I do as assignments for my writing school does not count. Neither will writing blog posts.
1b. Although pre-writing counts as writing, those words won’t go towards my word count.
2. Minimum of one sentence. No maximum.
3. Reblog this post every day with word count and what I worked on for the day.
Now that we’re on the same page, let’s hop right in.
DAY SIXTY
Word Count: 101 (revised)
What did I do: I decided to completely overhaul my poetry collection, bascially on nothing but a whim. I edited two poems, one of which only needed a few line edits and the other which needed a complete re-write. I'm much happier with these versions, and I'm glad I went along with my gut without having to agonize over it for months.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-ONE
Word Count: 149 (revised)
What did I do: I revised three more poems for the re-imagining of my poetry collection. You guys, I am so much happier with these (basically) new poems. I also went through the last complete draft of the collection and sorted poems into three categories: poems to cut (that was only like two or three), poems for the new collection (these were my more story-driven and fictionalized poems), and poems that will stay in Hypocrite (although I'll be overhauling Hypocrite's vibe as well so it's essentially another new collection.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-TWO
Word Count: 65 (revised)
What did I do: Revised two more poems for the new collection (and forgot to post about it apparently :/). A bit of a smaller word count today because one of the poems is made up of numbers--that's a fun one.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-THREE
Word Count: 11
What did I do: Wrote a new sentence for my novel. I haven't had the most productive day, but I'm taking a self care day tommorrow and focus on writing, so hopegully there will be more to report then.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-FOUR
Word Count: 1444 (1363 drafted, 81 revised)
What did I do: A lot! I took today as a break day from school work and dedicated the day to reading and writing. I wrote basically all of chapter two of my novel and edited a handful of poems to submit to a magazine. I also planned on writing out some note for a new(ish) idea, but I think I'll leave that for tommorrow.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-FIVE
Word Count: 0
What did I do: Took some notes for my next short story. Not much else to report.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-SIX
Word Count: 0
What did I do: Outlined the next block of chapters for my novel. Also not much to report.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-SEVEN:
Word Count: 1445 (revised)
What did I do: I did my line edit of chapter two. I've been panicking a little the past few days because I've been slowly losing momentum in this project super fast and I was so scared this was going to be another false start. But while doing that line edit I realized at what point my main character Robin was telling the story from, which meant that I needed to a) switch the tense I had been writing in and b) lean more into the second person referral (referring to a character as "you") that I had distanced from while drafting. I feel a lot better now that I'm back on track.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-EIGHT
Word Count: 0(?)
What did I do: I went through and changed chapter one to past tense and already it's so much better. I still have to do chapter two, but I'm exhausted so that'll have to wait until tommorow. Although this is technically a revision, I decided not to count the words as I didn't really do anything but change the tense of some words, and it felt kind of like triple dipping. Gray areas, we love them.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-NINE (nice)
Word Count: 0(?)
What did I do: I edited the first scene of chapter two to switch it to past tense. I had wanted to do this for the entire chapter, but I've had a busy day and I want to rest.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY
Word Count: 329
What did I do: I wrote the new demo for my video game I'm Sorry This Happened. I think it might be a bit underwritten, but I'll pass it off to my sister to see what she thinks and if it's what she was looking for.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-ONE
Word Count: 0
What did I do: I took some notes for a personal essay I'm planning on writing tommorrow. Oh boy is it going to be a time :/.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-TWO
Word Count: 58 (revised)
What did I do: I revised another poem for my new poetry collection. I'm still not super happy with this poem, but it's definitely better than before so, I probably shouldn't be so hard on myself.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-THREE
Word Count: 40 (revised)
What did I do: Revised another poem!
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-FOUR
Word Count: 301
What did I do: I'm annoyed at the Vatican so I'm writing an essay about it.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-FIVE
Word Count: 122 (revised)
What did I do: I completely reimagined one of my poems into a prose poem. I'll tweak it a bit more tommorrow, but I love how it's turned out so far. I also did some research (mostly source gathering) for the essay I was talking about yesterday.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-SIX
Word Count: 46 (revised)
What did I do: Edited another poem for the new chapbook. This was much less work than yesterday's poem, I just needed to tweak some wording and add another stanza on the end.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-SEVEN
Word Count: 326
What did I do: Re-wrote the begining of the essay. I'm much happier with this version.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVNETY-EIGHT
Word Count: 0
What did I do: Outlined a little more of my novel.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-NINE
Word Count: 0
What did I do: jotted down some ideas for a new project perhaps? I'm not sure how I'm feeling about it.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY
Word Count: 0
What did I do: A little more outlining. I've done so little writing this month :(,
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-ONE
Word Count: 19 (revised)
What did I do: Rewrote another poem for my chapbook. This poem is now in the form of a fb market ad??? I want to edit the description stanza a bit more, but I don't have time tonight.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-TWO
Word Count: 13
What did I do: Wrote the opening line to a new short piece. I'm going into this one knowing aboslutely nothing, so we'll see if that's a method that works for me.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-THREE
Word Count: 323
What did I do: Wrote the rest of that short piece. It's kind of cool actually!
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-FOUR
Word Count: 0
What did I do: wrote out another note about a potential new project
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-FIVE
Word Count: 177 (76 drafted, 101 revised)
What did I do: A couple of things actually. I revised two more poems for my poetry collection and started drafting chapter three of my novel. Woot woot!
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-SIX
Word Count: 283 (235 drafted, 48 revised)
What did I do: Same as yesterday, which was edit a poem and draft a little more of my novel.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-SEVEN
Word Count: 0
What did I do: I got a new novel idea, so I took some notes on it (and forgot to post about it, which was very silly of me)
Cheers,
-Ev
30 Day Writblr Challenge Day 14 | Have you ever been published?
Hey Writeblr! Day fourteen of the #chazzawrites challenge, today's question being: have you ever been published? I have, just very recently! My poem First Date was published in the latest issue of Red Bean Press, a magazine that publishes writblrs! Here's the link if you want to read it. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of pieces that are at a submittable stage and I don't have a lot of time to keep up with submissions, so I'm not going to really pick up the pace until after this school year ends. But hopefully soon enough I'll have some more pieces to share. That's all for today. I'll see y'all tomorrow! Cheers, -Ev
"Write" Every Day--March
Wow, we're already on month three! If you don't know, I'm attempting to "write" every day of this year. Here's a little more on the rules:
1. What counts as “writing”: drafting, editing, pre-writing (outlining, writing summaries, exercises, etc.)
1a. Must be a personal project. Any writing I do as assignments for my writing school does not count. Neither will writing blog posts.
1b. Although pre-writing counts as writing, those words won’t go towards my word count.
2. Minimum of one sentence. No maximum.
3. Reblog this post every day with word count and what I worked on for the day.
Now that we’re on the same page, let’s hop right in.
DAY SIXTY
Word Count: 101 (revised)
What did I do: I decided to completely overhaul my poetry collection, bascially on nothing but a whim. I edited two poems, one of which only needed a few line edits and the other which needed a complete re-write. I'm much happier with these versions, and I'm glad I went along with my gut without having to agonize over it for months.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-ONE
Word Count: 149 (revised)
What did I do: I revised three more poems for the re-imagining of my poetry collection. You guys, I am so much happier with these (basically) new poems. I also went through the last complete draft of the collection and sorted poems into three categories: poems to cut (that was only like two or three), poems for the new collection (these were my more story-driven and fictionalized poems), and poems that will stay in Hypocrite (although I'll be overhauling Hypocrite's vibe as well so it's essentially another new collection.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-TWO
Word Count: 65 (revised)
What did I do: Revised two more poems for the new collection (and forgot to post about it apparently :/). A bit of a smaller word count today because one of the poems is made up of numbers--that's a fun one.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-THREE
Word Count: 11
What did I do: Wrote a new sentence for my novel. I haven't had the most productive day, but I'm taking a self care day tommorrow and focus on writing, so hopegully there will be more to report then.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-FOUR
Word Count: 1444 (1363 drafted, 81 revised)
What did I do: A lot! I took today as a break day from school work and dedicated the day to reading and writing. I wrote basically all of chapter two of my novel and edited a handful of poems to submit to a magazine. I also planned on writing out some note for a new(ish) idea, but I think I'll leave that for tommorrow.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-FIVE
Word Count: 0
What did I do: Took some notes for my next short story. Not much else to report.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-SIX
Word Count: 0
What did I do: Outlined the next block of chapters for my novel. Also not much to report.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-SEVEN:
Word Count: 1445 (revised)
What did I do: I did my line edit of chapter two. I've been panicking a little the past few days because I've been slowly losing momentum in this project super fast and I was so scared this was going to be another false start. But while doing that line edit I realized at what point my main character Robin was telling the story from, which meant that I needed to a) switch the tense I had been writing in and b) lean more into the second person referral (referring to a character as "you") that I had distanced from while drafting. I feel a lot better now that I'm back on track.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-EIGHT
Word Count: 0(?)
What did I do: I went through and changed chapter one to past tense and already it's so much better. I still have to do chapter two, but I'm exhausted so that'll have to wait until tommorow. Although this is technically a revision, I decided not to count the words as I didn't really do anything but change the tense of some words, and it felt kind of like triple dipping. Gray areas, we love them.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-NINE (nice)
Word Count: 0(?)
What did I do: I edited the first scene of chapter two to switch it to past tense. I had wanted to do this for the entire chapter, but I've had a busy day and I want to rest.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY
Word Count: 329
What did I do: I wrote the new demo for my video game I'm Sorry This Happened. I think it might be a bit underwritten, but I'll pass it off to my sister to see what she thinks and if it's what she was looking for.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-ONE
Word Count: 0
What did I do: I took some notes for a personal essay I'm planning on writing tommorrow. Oh boy is it going to be a time :/.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-TWO
Word Count: 58 (revised)
What did I do: I revised another poem for my new poetry collection. I'm still not super happy with this poem, but it's definitely better than before so, I probably shouldn't be so hard on myself.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-THREE
Word Count: 40 (revised)
What did I do: Revised another poem!
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-FOUR
Word Count: 301
What did I do: I'm annoyed at the Vatican so I'm writing an essay about it.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-FIVE
Word Count: 122 (revised)
What did I do: I completely reimagined one of my poems into a prose poem. I'll tweak it a bit more tommorrow, but I love how it's turned out so far. I also did some research (mostly source gathering) for the essay I was talking about yesterday.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-SIX
Word Count: 46 (revised)
What did I do: Edited another poem for the new chapbook. This was much less work than yesterday's poem, I just needed to tweak some wording and add another stanza on the end.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-SEVEN
Word Count: 326
What did I do: Re-wrote the begining of the essay. I'm much happier with this version.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVNETY-EIGHT
Word Count: 0
What did I do: Outlined a little more of my novel.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-NINE
Word Count: 0
What did I do: jotted down some ideas for a new project perhaps? I'm not sure how I'm feeling about it.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY
Word Count: 0
What did I do: A little more outlining. I've done so little writing this month :(,
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-ONE
Word Count: 19 (revised)
What did I do: Rewrote another poem for my chapbook. This poem is now in the form of a fb market ad??? I want to edit the description stanza a bit more, but I don't have time tonight.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-TWO
Word Count: 13
What did I do: Wrote the opening line to a new short piece. I'm going into this one knowing aboslutely nothing, so we'll see if that's a method that works for me.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-THREE
Word Count: 323
What did I do: Wrote the rest of that short piece. It's kind of cool actually!
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-FOUR
Word Count: 0
What did I do: wrote out another note about a potential new project
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-FIVE
Word Count: 177 (76 drafted, 101 revised)
What did I do: A couple of things actually. I revised two more poems for my poetry collection and started drafting chapter three of my novel. Woot woot!
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-SIX
Word Count: 283 (235 drafted, 48 revised)
What did I do: Same as yesterday, which was edit a poem and draft a little more of my novel.
Cheers,
-Ev
30 Day Writblr Challenge Day 13 | Have you ever finished a draft?
Hey Writblr,
Day thirteen of the #chazzawrites challenge (the spooky number :0), and today question is: have you ever finished a draft?
I have finished a couple of drafts over the years. My poetry collection (before I reimagined it) had three drafts, and my novel The Proximate Cause of Broken Glass had a previous NaNoWriMo draft finished, etc. I am a little embarassed about the ratio of drafts that I've actually finished to drafts that I've abandoned, but I'm working on that, as abandoning drafts is a natural part of the creative process.
That's all for today. See you all tommorrow!
Cheers,
-Ev
"Write" Every Day--March
Wow, we're already on month three! If you don't know, I'm attempting to "write" every day of this year. Here's a little more on the rules:
1. What counts as “writing”: drafting, editing, pre-writing (outlining, writing summaries, exercises, etc.)
1a. Must be a personal project. Any writing I do as assignments for my writing school does not count. Neither will writing blog posts.
1b. Although pre-writing counts as writing, those words won’t go towards my word count.
2. Minimum of one sentence. No maximum.
3. Reblog this post every day with word count and what I worked on for the day.
Now that we’re on the same page, let’s hop right in.
DAY SIXTY
Word Count: 101 (revised)
What did I do: I decided to completely overhaul my poetry collection, bascially on nothing but a whim. I edited two poems, one of which only needed a few line edits and the other which needed a complete re-write. I'm much happier with these versions, and I'm glad I went along with my gut without having to agonize over it for months.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-ONE
Word Count: 149 (revised)
What did I do: I revised three more poems for the re-imagining of my poetry collection. You guys, I am so much happier with these (basically) new poems. I also went through the last complete draft of the collection and sorted poems into three categories: poems to cut (that was only like two or three), poems for the new collection (these were my more story-driven and fictionalized poems), and poems that will stay in Hypocrite (although I'll be overhauling Hypocrite's vibe as well so it's essentially another new collection.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-TWO
Word Count: 65 (revised)
What did I do: Revised two more poems for the new collection (and forgot to post about it apparently :/). A bit of a smaller word count today because one of the poems is made up of numbers--that's a fun one.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-THREE
Word Count: 11
What did I do: Wrote a new sentence for my novel. I haven't had the most productive day, but I'm taking a self care day tommorrow and focus on writing, so hopegully there will be more to report then.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-FOUR
Word Count: 1444 (1363 drafted, 81 revised)
What did I do: A lot! I took today as a break day from school work and dedicated the day to reading and writing. I wrote basically all of chapter two of my novel and edited a handful of poems to submit to a magazine. I also planned on writing out some note for a new(ish) idea, but I think I'll leave that for tommorrow.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-FIVE
Word Count: 0
What did I do: Took some notes for my next short story. Not much else to report.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-SIX
Word Count: 0
What did I do: Outlined the next block of chapters for my novel. Also not much to report.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-SEVEN:
Word Count: 1445 (revised)
What did I do: I did my line edit of chapter two. I've been panicking a little the past few days because I've been slowly losing momentum in this project super fast and I was so scared this was going to be another false start. But while doing that line edit I realized at what point my main character Robin was telling the story from, which meant that I needed to a) switch the tense I had been writing in and b) lean more into the second person referral (referring to a character as "you") that I had distanced from while drafting. I feel a lot better now that I'm back on track.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-EIGHT
Word Count: 0(?)
What did I do: I went through and changed chapter one to past tense and already it's so much better. I still have to do chapter two, but I'm exhausted so that'll have to wait until tommorow. Although this is technically a revision, I decided not to count the words as I didn't really do anything but change the tense of some words, and it felt kind of like triple dipping. Gray areas, we love them.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SIXTY-NINE (nice)
Word Count: 0(?)
What did I do: I edited the first scene of chapter two to switch it to past tense. I had wanted to do this for the entire chapter, but I've had a busy day and I want to rest.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY
Word Count: 329
What did I do: I wrote the new demo for my video game I'm Sorry This Happened. I think it might be a bit underwritten, but I'll pass it off to my sister to see what she thinks and if it's what she was looking for.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-ONE
Word Count: 0
What did I do: I took some notes for a personal essay I'm planning on writing tommorrow. Oh boy is it going to be a time :/.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-TWO
Word Count: 58 (revised)
What did I do: I revised another poem for my new poetry collection. I'm still not super happy with this poem, but it's definitely better than before so, I probably shouldn't be so hard on myself.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-THREE
Word Count: 40 (revised)
What did I do: Revised another poem!
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-FOUR
Word Count: 301
What did I do: I'm annoyed at the Vatican so I'm writing an essay about it.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-FIVE
Word Count: 122 (revised)
What did I do: I completely reimagined one of my poems into a prose poem. I'll tweak it a bit more tommorrow, but I love how it's turned out so far. I also did some research (mostly source gathering) for the essay I was talking about yesterday.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-SIX
Word Count: 46 (revised)
What did I do: Edited another poem for the new chapbook. This was much less work than yesterday's poem, I just needed to tweak some wording and add another stanza on the end.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-SEVEN
Word Count: 326
What did I do: Re-wrote the begining of the essay. I'm much happier with this version.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVNETY-EIGHT
Word Count: 0
What did I do: Outlined a little more of my novel.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY SEVENTY-NINE
Word Count: 0
What did I do: jotted down some ideas for a new project perhaps? I'm not sure how I'm feeling about it.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY
Word Count: 0
What did I do: A little more outlining. I've done so little writing this month :(,
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-ONE
Word Count: 19 (revised)
What did I do: Rewrote another poem for my chapbook. This poem is now in the form of a fb market ad??? I want to edit the description stanza a bit more, but I don't have time tonight.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-TWO
Word Count: 13
What did I do: Wrote the opening line to a new short piece. I'm going into this one knowing aboslutely nothing, so we'll see if that's a method that works for me.
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-THREE
Word Count: 323
What did I do: Wrote the rest of that short piece. It's kind of cool actually!
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-FOUR
Word Count: 0
What did I do: wrote out another note about a potential new project
Cheers,
-Ev
DAY EIGHTY-FIVE
Word Count: 177 (76 drafted, 101 revised)
What did I do: A couple of things actually. I revised two more poems for my poetry collection and started drafting chapter three of my novel. Woot woot!
Cheers,
-Ev
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