ive been really and truly unpredictably up and down with this but right now im so proud of myself for finishing a book
like god damn!! in primary school i went round class making the best drawers promise to illustrate my future bestseller!! buried deep in my wardrobe there's a notebook where i scribbled "i want to be an author i just don't know what to write" and doodled books with my name on the front
i finally did it and it's shit but it exists and i'm purposefully methodically choosing not to care that it took me five years or that it's full of issues and plot holes. i'm putting critiquing it on hold and giving myself chance to step back and celebrate the fact that i followed it through to the end despite wanting to give up every single day of the process
Okay i think I’ve asked you this before but maybe not, but I was thinking the other day about how you’re working on a book & writing about wlw and like, I wanna know more?? Please tell us about your kids!
i literally swooned readin this ur the sweetest lil bean! thank u for asking it makes my life when people remember!!!
atm the best way i can describe the editing process is that meme of that little girl brushing her hair in the bathroom, persisting but sobbing throughout
i’ve kind of fallen out of love w it sadly and for ages haven’t thought it’s worth finishing. but my mentor does (which is amazin i love her what a babe) so i’m gritting my teeth and trying to reach a stage i can truly say i’m done (not just hastily fill the word count and go ‘miss i finished can i play now’) then move onto the next thing!!!!!! which is quite an excitin one!!!
but i still do love them they rly are my kids i just should’ve put them in a better story but ah well
basically christina is a seemingly super confident 18 yo with grey dyed hair and a die hard love of puns, kit is a bundle of anxiety dressed up in dungarees who prefers painting to speaking to people. they were childhood best friends then had a terrible fallout and didn’t speak for 7 years, until they got put in a group together to complete an art project in their last year of school.
i’m horrendous at explaining lol the tag on my blog for them is #chrisandkit if u wanna discover more but i started posting about it about 5 years ago and it’s not the same story at all anymore so it’ll be a real wild ride
ily for still thinking about them and i hope i can do them justice someday in some book even if it’s not this one and if i ever finish editing it you’ll be the first one invited to the party xx
i thought writing was hard but turns out editing is so much harder hoooooooo boy im havin to give myself a pep talk every single day to stop myself from just abandoning this book it’d better be god damn worth it when i reach the end someone had better buy me a hamper of chocolate
just a friendly reminder for everyone who's in the mood for giving up on anything right about now
around a month ago i briefly celebrated reaching 37k words on a book i'd been planning since 2014
my first thought was "holy crap. that's officially further than i've ever written for any project before giving up" (i reached 36 thousand and something one nanowrimo)
but then about 2 minutes later i started my inevitable trademark spiral - "if i'm planning on writing 75k overall, then this is only half way. is it gonna take me another 4 years to finish? is it even worth it? would anyone even want to read it? what is the point?"
well!!!!!!! the point is i love this story and i want to write it for myself. so that's what i'm gonna do.
so please don't give up on the thing you're creating or planning or doing. doesn't matter if it takes 4 weeks or 4 months or 4 years, doesn't matter how many times you give up or hit a block or doubt yourself, as long as you pick yourself up and get going again
if u wanted to ask me qs about my book no pressure but that'd be very chill and helpful bc it might make me actually decide on some answers/ plot points/ characters etc ✨💖💕💗💟
doing the snowflake plotting method for my novel and i'm just gonna completely skip the bit where u make character charts with their birthday/ appearance/ motivation etc bc a) bold of u to assume i don't already know them like my children and b) i've been so fCkin excited to move on to the part where u plan ur scenes on a big ass spreadsheet for over a week now
