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Got 5 days to finish motherships first draft and plowdragons outline. It's gonna happen, watch me
What if I go on a writing bender and crank out the sloppiest draft in a few weeks just to get a shape done what then
Outlining kind of worked for me in that I got a good idea of some worldbuilding stuff but as always, half my best ideas come while drafting and I've gotta chase that down as I'm currently doing
And now I'm excited for this story kernel but it's going to mean Changes and I'm not sure what that means yet except I gotta keep writing
And still my most mmm successful? Joyous? Book was completed writing as fast as I could by the seat of my pants so I think I got something there
.... But also it was 2018 and it was a different world lol
Figuring out this outlining business is slowwwwww. Just sitting in a room asking questions of myself over and over until I run out of questions to ask myself and then trying to backbrain ideas until the next morning.
Writing update:
Got a little more done with motherships, including some cleaning up some scenes and figuring out this one little tangly part that's been bothering me. This one is DIFFICULT. But I'll get there, just chipping away slowly and being ok with it.
Took a bunch more notes on plowdragons over the holiday break. I know who my MC is and have a good idea about the city and setting he lives in, which is cool. Having all the background details lined up is making me more excited to write so fingers crossed the enthusiasm holds. I still think I'm going to try to outline a bit for this one since I really I have no clue what kind of story this really is going to be.
Also having editing thoughts for stormforks but I'm going to keep that on the distant back burner for now since I burned out so bad on it. I don't wanna do anything with that until I'm really ready for it.
Tomorrow I wanna get up early and really focus on writing, but we'll see.
Chipped away at the motherships short story this morning and worked on notes for the plowdragons novel this evening. I'm considering actually outlining plowdragons instead of doing my normal shoot from the hip and figure out what the plot is as I go method, but I think I say this at the start of every novel and then end up pantsing the whole thing anyway.
The difference here for plowdragons is I'm actually taking notes on setting and worldbuildy things so hopefully I'll have a more solid foundation for what to base the story on. I'm hoping this makes drafting smoother because I'll already have some answers when I need them. I'm getting really tired of having to go back and edit a bunch in later and I've gotten agent feedback suggesting my worldbuilding could be more cohesive. Sooo we'll see, and I'm satisfied taking notes for now.
Motherships is going painfully slow but I guess that's expected given the story material and the fact that it's a short, and those are definitely outside my wheelhouse. It's hard to wake up in the morning and get right into trans pregnancy horror especially given all the *waves hands* ongoing situation. At any rate it's getting there, just not as quickly as I'd like.
Anyway, going to continue journaling about my current writing projects here as a motivator. Trying to put my thoughts somewhere that feels more external to try to keep from shutting down and turning into the human equivalent of a rock. (Another theme of motherships! Gotta finish to put it out there)
Getting ideas for the setting for the new plowdragons book and getting excited for working on this next. Really excited for how this is starting to shape up.
As it turns out providing crit for several other people has been realllyyyyy good for my little break from writing. How do I know so many cool people writing cool shit, it's inspiring and makes me wanna work on my own shit which is GOOD. That's what I need!
And I think it means I need to figure out how to keep this up when I get back into working on my own stuff cause I fell out of the habit consistently the last few year and I remember now how nice it is for a brain break but allowing me to stay focused on writing
Been working on this burnout situation (loooooong time coming after 6 years of constantly grinding myself down) for the past two weeks. Trying to just exist and give myself space to do other things besides write, but keep up the writing adjacent things that I also love that I've been neglecting like critiquing and reading. And it's been good! It's a much needed vacation! I've read so many books and I'm looking forward to reading more!
But I'm also trying to figure out something more sustainable moving forward and... idk. It's hard when there's a full time job. And health. And pets. And this house that needs updates since moving a little over a year ago.
So how do I keep from falling in a burnout hole again? I don't know. Part of the problem is motivation. I used to look forward to submitting queries to agents. But the longer I've been at it the more I'm not sure if even if I find an agent it'll be worth it to pursue tradpub, and I think *that's* the big sticking point for me right now. But I don't think selfpub is the answer either. So. Gotta find that direction again that I had for a couple of years I think.
