stilts

wow, so the book has u-turned to some very bad, bad place. It's painful to re-read.
Not, as in, I'm being too hard on myself but actually, actually painful to read.

Perhaps it has to do with a reviewer saying my characters are stilted. And, holy moley, is this guy stilted.

Yikes. I'm having a nightmare.

How to fix? How to engage back with the characters?

Part of it is that it's dang boring right now. Like dead boring. I don't care if they live or die boring.

Good enough

I need to talk about good enough. Enough already: It's good enough.
Just get the rough draft out there, in all its gory goodness. Revision will take me the rest of the way.

No more looking at the internet either... being distracted by sales or reviews or comments. All of that stuff no longer matters unless I can't write anyway.

If I can write, I need to be writing.  I need to get words, and more words, and more words after that.

I need to get this thing published FAST and yesterday.

Re-center on the positive

It's not been a good day. I got another bad review. Makes me just want to throw up my hands and give up. Sales have not been that great either.  My dreams of what might happen by releasing more of them have not gone to plan.

Also, all that effort... for nothing!! [sad face]

I guess, if I just look at these as 'practice' stories, it will be okay.  I do have this feeling that they will never touch another story because they will say, 'oh, it's by that person.'

Ah well.  Right now, honestly, I'm only making hobby money. Not good... but what can I do about it?

Anyway, I need to get my brain into the right place for writing.
This is just a fun story and I'm slowly building an audience of readers that LOVE this type of story.

Let me write this story just for them. Perhaps the sales will build back up.

Rush, rush, rush

Again I have put myself in a difficult position: The story needs to be finished by the end of the month.
That's 4K words/day.

Luckily, I have a bunch that just needs revision.

Once I get everything fixed up, I'll update with my new word count requirements each day.


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I suppose, if I buckle down, there's no reason I can't get 4k/day even if it does come to that.
Time to build back up the writing muscle.

Sometimes I forget...

Sometimes I forget you.

You are my own little private place where no one's listening, but yet, I feel less alone because it isn't truly private.

To close things out, I did get it published.
I'm now working on the next thing.  It's not going well.

I need to truly let myself fall into that place. For some reason, I am resisting.