Finally, a worthwhile day of writing. I broke my own #1 rule and got stuck on a single scene for nearly a week, until I finally realised I was in a rut and jumped to the end of the book. 2000 words today is the best I've done on Century of Sand in a while.
I think it's a positive sign when I'm halfway through a scene and I stop and think, damn, I'm going to LOVE re-reading this when I'm all done. So yeah, I'm excited for how this novel is going to turn out.
Thanks for the questions, by the way. Keep 'em coming.
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Nice work, man, it's great being excited about what you're doing, nothing worse than getting halfway through a scene and thinking, "fuck, this isn't making sense to anyone, even me and the writing is weak" or whatever. Of course, from what I've read in this blog, I'm sure your response would be to power through and worry about that in editing, yeah?
As for your reply about music as inspiration, I agree with you that anything with lyrics generally tends to be really distracting, depending on what I'm writing.
I like writing to music, but the problem I have found is that I tend to back off and write a scene as if it is a movie and let the music do some of the mood work. Which obviously doesn't work because the reader obviously isn't going to be listening to that song on loop when they read it.
Go Ruz!
Definitely a positive sign. Good job, mate
nice one Ruz, looking forward to the next chapter
I like writing to music, especially film soundtracks
looking forward to future chapters