Taking some time

I’m taking some time off from the crazed sprint towards that vanishing point.

Which also means that I’m officially abandoning Nanowrimo this year.  It’s just too close on the heels of working on the edits of Shaede, and I don’t have the mental energy to tackle a fresh book right now.  The body is making all kinds of protests that I’ve been doing too much lately as well, and rather than fall into a full-on lupus flare, I’m taking a step back.

In one of the universe’s great moments of synchroncity, I read a post by Elizabeth Bear last week about her own struggles with writing method and speed. I greatly admire her, and it seemed like really good timing for her to post something like this.

The plan right now is to not really have a plan.  Before the end of the year, I’d like to have everything ready to start submitting Shaede to agents again (this means getting a good query written as well as going through and doing minor edits based on feedback from my betas).  I’d like to at the very least have a rough outline of Requiem finished as well.

Amusingly, once I made the decision to stop with Nano, my brain started working on Reqiuem again.  Just getting to know the characters and world.  I’m not going to push myself into headlong writing right now.  If the need to write comes, then so be it.  But even when I’m not actively typing, I’m still working – I need to remind myself of that.  It’s not all about the hours at the keyboard – there’s a lot more that goes into writing than that.

So, posting may slow down (or increase, depending on where my head goes!).

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

Taking some time

I’m taking some time off from the crazed sprint towards that vanishing point.

Which also means that I’m officially abandoning Nanowrimo this year.  It’s just too close on the heels of working on the edits of Shaede, and I don’t have the mental energy to tackle a fresh book right now.  The body is making all kinds of protests that I’ve been doing too much lately as well, and rather than fall into a full-on lupus flare, I’m taking a step back.

In one of the universe’s great moments of synchroncity, I read a post by Elizabeth Bear last week about her own struggles with writing method and speed. I greatly admire her, and it seemed like really good timing for her to post something like this.

The plan right now is to not really have a plan.  Before the end of the year, I’d like to have everything ready to start submitting Shaede to agents again (this means getting a good query written as well as going through and doing minor edits based on feedback from my betas).  I’d like to at the very least have a rough outline of Requiem finished as well.

Amusingly, once I made the decision to stop with Nano, my brain started working on Reqiuem again.  Just getting to know the characters and world.  I’m not going to push myself into headlong writing right now.  If the need to write comes, then so be it.  But even when I’m not actively typing, I’m still working – I need to remind myself of that.  It’s not all about the hours at the keyboard – there’s a lot more that goes into writing than that.

So, posting may slow down (or increase, depending on where my head goes!).

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.