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Sometimes I just want to sit down with someone and absolutely unload all my plot ideas onto them but 1) it would take at least six hours, 2) it would freak people out because none of it makes any sense whatsoever and 3) my ideas don’t start with words o_o
I might do something dumb about Camp NaNoWriMo. Hm. I’ll go get an ice coffee then I’ll see… It might be dumb. But I promised not to overstress and I promised not to let it ruin Vale so it might be necessary. It borders cheating but…
First I thought it could be a dagger in the hand but then I thought, why not two hands reaching for each other? Right? That’s perfectly fine and harmless and not painful (for me) at all!
Anyway, I’m Really sleepy but it’s tradition that at midnight I start writing so I’ll write 1,667 words then go The Eff to bed x)
I’m planning my characters for this New Story and got damn…. I need to… save up money… and commission some Art.
Anyway my new story idea is like a mix of Welcome to Night Vale and Misfits and I’m fine with that.
Suddenly, new story idea. Chill out, bro, we’re not finished with Vale yet. Speaking of which, I wanted to finish Vale in June and do OLD for Camp NaNo but I didn’t finish Vale so I’ll use Camp NaNo to do and then probably proceed with my new idea for Real NaNo. OLD’s just gonna have to take a backseat, maybe I’ll write it while outlining for NaNo, I don’t fucking know.
I’m finally not taking Camp NaNo so seriously and for the first time of my life I have a long-term project, like wtf.
I’m also wondering what the word goal should be for July. I’m near the end of the story so maybe it should just be 50k but I skipped two parts and there’s plenty of stuff to the ending as well so I might just go for 75k again, that sounds enough.
“writers always know exactly where they are going with their work!”
r u sure
“no writer does anything by mistake, it’s all very strategic”
r u sure
“they use symbolism in everything. for example, a simple sentence symbolises directness and-”
R U SURE
The best moments in writing is when you discover you did something absolutely genius by complete accident.
A miscellaneous world-building detail from ten chapters earlier accidentally saved a character’s life once
“Omg this line is genius and the best reference!” “Thank you I did that entirely on purpose!!” *sweats*
READER: “(points out symbolism and foreshadowing and depth)”
AUTHOR:
I once literally flipped a coin to decide which character was going to die in a multi-award-nominated novel.
I was once rereading a manuscript before editing it and discovered that in an early chapter I’d put in a line without any forethought that ended up aligning perfectly the plot and is now my favorite line in the entire book even though when I wrote that sentence I hadn’t even come up with that plot point yet.
In my book series, I have done various things on accident and then, looking back, yelled BRILLIANT and went with it. And, often times, my characters just DECIDE things, like one character was in love with another and I was “WHAT?” but went with it because it was actually a VERY good story and made some of the plot stuff that much more interesting.
If you ever wanted to know my creative process for writing, congratulations, this is it.
Writing a story like
There’s an author’s note in an Isaac Asimov short story collection – Isaac Asimov, mind you – and I can’t for the life of me remember which it was because my mom has a billion of them, but basically he went to a lecture on his books where the teaccher was lecturing on all the symbolism and themes and such and Asimovewent up to him and was just like “Uhhhh…. I didn’t put any of that in? It just…. no? Not really?”
And the lecturer legit looked ISAAC FUCKING ASIMOV straight in the eye and said, “What do you know, sir? You’re just the author.”
And Asimov described it as being a fairly profound moment in his career.
Pass Through Fire 