The writing week that was

I’ve decided that I need to start being accountable for the writing work I’ve been doing.

At the moment, I’m pretty much still working in snatches of time.  If I’m lucky, I get about an hour a day while the baby is napping or being looked after.  And if I’m not exhausted, I can usually eke out another 30-60 minutes in the evening after the baby has gone to bed.  And on any given day, both of these times may not happen.

This week, most days were lost to complete concentration fail.  I wandered back and forth between projects, just trying to figure out what I actually wanted to do.  I’d been working on outlining Never, but suddenly I found myself dying to get to work on The White Raven as well.  The latter of which needs a tremendous amount of work.

My plan, as it came together after much faffing about:

To continue to outline Never, working on getting really indepth character bios and a detailed outline of the whole thing.

To strip down The White Raven completely and figure out exactly what I want it to say, and to develop a complete outline before I rewrite.

Realistically, these two outlines may be all of the writing work that I manage this year.  And that’s okay.  I’d be happy to be able to work up a series of outlines over the next couple of years, if nothing else, and then I can write the actual books when I have more time.

I’ve also gotten seriously back into reviewing, which is making me happy.  I’m thankful for the chance to do review work, since it often makes me read authors that I wouldn’t have picked up otherwise.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

The writing week that was

I’ve decided that I need to start being accountable for the writing work I’ve been doing.

At the moment, I’m pretty much still working in snatches of time.  If I’m lucky, I get about an hour a day while the baby is napping or being looked after.  And if I’m not exhausted, I can usually eke out another 30-60 minutes in the evening after the baby has gone to bed.  And on any given day, both of these times may not happen.

This week, most days were lost to complete concentration fail.  I wandered back and forth between projects, just trying to figure out what I actually wanted to do.  I’d been working on outlining Never, but suddenly I found myself dying to get to work on The White Raven as well.  The latter of which needs a tremendous amount of work.

My plan, as it came together after much faffing about:

To continue to outline Never, working on getting really indepth character bios and a detailed outline of the whole thing.

To strip down The White Raven completely and figure out exactly what I want it to say, and to develop a complete outline before I rewrite.

Realistically, these two outlines may be all of the writing work that I manage this year.  And that’s okay.  I’d be happy to be able to work up a series of outlines over the next couple of years, if nothing else, and then I can write the actual books when I have more time.

I’ve also gotten seriously back into reviewing, which is making me happy.  I’m thankful for the chance to do review work, since it often makes me read authors that I wouldn’t have picked up otherwise.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.