I’m sure this isn’t the best advice…
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I’m sure this isn’t the best advice…
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Love it.
Enjoying The Lost Lullaby……….. (noticed a typo at the end of chapter 4)-
I noticed that yesterday too, thanks for the heads up!
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Hope to read some more later.
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Up to chapter 12! It just gets better!
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Thank you so much for the update, Di… my writing soul salutes you! 💖📚
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I’ll do a review when I’ve finished if that’s OK. Should I tie it into your blog or just leave the author as Alex Rose.
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You can tie it into our blog, it is Anita’s story after all…
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OK.
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If you’re capable of writing a good one on the first draft, you’re better than I am – or you’re deluded, and we will back away slowly! :)
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aren’t we supposed to believe that we can? It rarely happens though, does it?
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My brain is very limited – so I do the process of drafts for each scene separately. I get down what I see in my head, with the words that come first.
Then I add from the prompts and lists I fill in BEFORE I start to write. Rounds of listening, going through AutoCrit and using the information from its counting functions to decide if I need to have ‘see’ eight times in this scene; repeat – and eventually is has incorporated everything I want, the language is as polished as I like, and that scene is completely finished. Next!
Lawrence Block messed me up by saying he could do his stories in the first draft – I thought back when I started that you had to do that.
I won’t comment on his books, but each writer has to find the process that works for them, and his is not mine.
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this sounds like a good plan, Alicia… something I will probably be doing soon, as the constant pain doesn’t leave much room for thinking (or remembering!)
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You do what you can with the pain, and then if you still have some time, find methods which give you the reward of moving forward with what matters to you – or it takes that from you, too.
I frankly don’t know what to do with myself if I’m not at least in principle trying to finish Pride’s Children: LIMBO. Yesterday, words came; today follows another night of struggling unsuccessfully to get enough sleep – I’ll try again in a while, and I’ll TRY writing (by blocking the internet with a little program called FREEDOM I have a lifetime subscription to the primitive form of) – and will count the effort, and any progress as success. Otherwise, who am I?
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My thoughts exactly, Alicia… I just wish trying counted…
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Unless you are using your time effectively to take care of yourself, yes, trying counts – you keep trying until you either succeed, or decide it isn’t going to be possible.
Being sensible IS a strategy.
I just don’t know if I will accept that I can’t when I can’t. But so far, trying eventually produces a bit more, and I keep at it.
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being stubborn seems to help, I find…
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If there were a competition for stubbornness, I’d like to be in it.
People have choices, and have a hard time making one thing more important than another, and sharing time.
I have writing LIMBO – and almost literally nothing else. If you want to call that being stubborn, even with its hint of desperation, I’m on board for that.
There’s nothing else, given the current state of research into ME/CFS and Long Covid, that I have to look forward to and count on.
Meanwhile, I’m going to finish the book if I have ANY way of continuing.
Then I can pin all my hopes on marketing a completed trilogy, etc.. Hard to market something not finished, unless you can make even an implicit promise it will be finished.
Hope your ‘something’ sustains you, too.
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Practically everything is sitting on the edge of the toilet seat waiting to fall in, but I still believe I can keep going! so I am extremely grateful for this…
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You sound like the kind of optimist I am – even when things are horrid, you keep going, not because it could be worse (that’s always true), but because if we still have any choices, we can make good satisfying ones, even of little things.
I can’t take credit for it – it seems to be hardwired to try to put myself back together every day – but I am very grateful for it, or I’d spend my entire remaining life focusing on all the bad stuff.
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we are definitely two of a kind, Alicia… 💖💖
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And if we hadn’t had this kind of conversations lately, we never would have known. Kinda cool, isn’t it?
Except for the horrid parts.
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Very cool, Alicia. Our friends here on WP are like my family and I love you all… 💕
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Wise words indeed…..
I think, I might just be fixin’ it……. only taken five years.
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not long at all then?
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Time well spent finding ways that don’t work. 😀
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story of our lives, isn’t it?
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This can work! I’m engaged in the first part right now.
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The best part by far, Audrey…
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I actually prefer rewriting and editing a completed draft. First drafts are the hardest part for me.
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same here, Audrey. I spent years transcribing and proofing my sisters books, as she is PC phobic. I need two of me, one to write the first draft and one to knock it into shape!
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It really is like being two people, the Writer and the Editor.
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and keeping them apart is the hard part, Audrey…
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Many great stories started out as bad ones! That first draft is usually garbage but after the 20th rewrite, the story can be quite awesome.
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Isn’t that suppose to be ‘will be quite awesome’?
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Will is a much more positive word. Maybe I’m too much of a realist (or is that a perfectionist) My daughter says, “Things don’t have to be perfect, things just have to get done.”
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I am beginning to feel like that these days, Darlene. Anything, rather than doing nothing at all…
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I am an eternal editor- so this works for me! hehehe
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I know what you mean, I edit everything…
I’m just saying… meow! 🐈⬛
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