Recent content by Firefly

Nightgardener has a point with the consent thing—That didn’t throw me off the first time I read it because the system is sooort of similar to my religious beliefs and I sort of filled in the blanks a little bit, but if you don’t make it clear that the mother had a choice in this somewhere in the...

I’ve been focusing a lot lately on making writing fun for myself and writing whatever excites me rather than forcing myself to be productive, and that’s resulted in me writing a lot of fanfic. I think I’ve written more complete, polished pieces over the last few months than I have in the past...

On a normal day I just pull out my notebook and start writing longhand. If I’m starting something new sometimes I pull up one of my ideas docs for a prompt but usually I don’t even touch the computer until I’ve got a decent amount of words down and need to transcribe them. I try to avoid extra...

Practice is always going to be the most useful thing you can do to improve your skills, but I personally mindlessly plodding on on a single project just “to finish” with hardly a thought towards building your skills is about the single least effective way to practice you can find. As others have...

If you know what your problems are, and are just having problems catching it while writing/remembering to fix it, It might help you to make some sort of checklist with all the mistakes you frequently make and just use that every time you revise. Eventually, you’ll get to a point where the rules...

I disagree with ThinkerX, I like the classes you have. I think it feels more natural and less engineered when you have lots of classes and they aren’t to neat and tidy. (Who knows? Maybe the boundaries between these elements are blurry and come more from the people trying to understand them than...

I’ll read some of these and be like “hmm, that’s actually pretty good” And then I’ll get to one that’s like this: “don’t use a magic system unless you can describe it without using verbs.” I’m laughing. What the heck?

Haven't done well this weekend, I've reached the end of my partial outline and only got about 700 words each the last few days. Trying to figure out what comes next, but there are a lot of tangly plot problems that have come up so I'm not sure I'll be able to keep up the NaNo pace for the rest...

I got exactly 1667 words today. The website says I still need 23 more, but that is a huge nope. I've gotten around 1700 words for the last couple days, but not much over, which means I'm still not even close to caught up for Sunday. Writing 1600 words is a lot harder when you're trying to...

1708 on Saturday, but only 770 on Sunday. I usually plan not to write at all on Sundays though, so I'm looking at that more like 700 words towards catching up rather than being 900 short.

I got 1680 words yesterday. The Nano website seems to have changed their daily goal/projections/thing because it set my goal for the day at 1700-something words. I was disproportionately angry about this. Haven't done my words for today yet, though I did do a little planning for the scene...

If you don't want to turn those first couple chapters with the aunt into a prologue, (which I think might be the best thing to do in this case) it might also work well to have some sort of part 1/part 2 or book 1/book 2 division, or even just an "eight years later" page. I think you definitely...

My speed fluctuates a lot. When I'm in complete word-vomit mode with no regards for quality, I can get over 1500 in an hour, which I think is pretty fast, but as likely as not that would be completely unsalvageable. Yesterday I spent maybe an hour and a half on not-quite 500 words. (and I've had...

Aaahhhh, its so close now! Two days... I'd say my goal is to force myself to draft. Word count goals are helpful for me in that way because they're something concrete that shows I've actually been working on the hard parts of a project, not just tiptoeing around the edges with the easy bits, as...

-Sign up and set up your project on the NaNoWriMo website so you can record your word count each day. (This is THE MOST motivating thing for me, it's so much fun seeing your graph go up every day) -Nanowrimo will send you pep talks from famous authors and encouraging messages every day on your...