Just an honest observation for your Monday night: Writing isn’t easy. It’s difficult. Like very difficult. Sometimes I have to remind myself of that, because I get to thinking that it’s supposed to be easy. See, even when you have a good story in mind, and you have good characters, and you think you know… Read More Writing isn’t easy
I’ve been editing my manuscript lately, and it’s been a lot of work. That said, I don’t dislike editing. I actually really enjoy those moments of breakthrough when I know I’ve just made my story infinitely better. And I’ve found that when editing (as many people have said before), it’s best to not try to fix everything at… Read More It’s all in the timing
The other day, I came across this quote from Veronica Roth that I thought pretty perfectly described my current mood. So I thought I’d share. It said: “And consider getting desperate. Desperate to write, desperate to get that story on the page, desperate to let the characters speak, and desperate to finish.” Now this quote came from a… Read More Feeling desperate (to write)
For my #NaNoWriMo commitment, I’ve been making an effort to write/edit something for my novel manuscript every day. Here’s how it’s going: It’s not hard to spend time writing, per se. It’s more difficult to figure out what gets sacrificed to have the time to write. Before November, I would usually focus on writing on the weekends. I’m… Read More One week in: #NaNoWriMo
I think I need to re-write this entire chapter. What if I removed that character from this scene? Oh, I like that scene a lot better now! Nope, nope, nope, that scene was better before. This is wrong…but I don’t know what needs to happen to make it better. I’ve definitely had a variation of all… Read More Being the Goldilocks of editing
Mackenzie Bates 