Today's Earworm: I Am a Stone by Demon Hunter
Today's Date: April 24, 2017
What to say today?
Actually I don't have an answer to that. I've been writing so hard and fast the last few days that I've kind of lost my own thoughts.
I found myself a new story that is kind of eating my brain, based around the above song and Heart Heart Head by Meg Myers. Both songs have damn near been on repeat since I discovered them and just let the sound and the lyrics work their magic on me.
So I think I found what I wanted to discuss beyond my current word count (just over 20K actually).
Inspiration.
I know I've touched on this on my twitter (@SLStrailo) and sometimes here, but I don't think I've done a full on blog about it.
Inspiration can come from anywhere and right now I'm not looking a gifthorse in the mouth. So to say, I'm not complaining.
Really. I want the inspiration to hit. I want those words to come to me and to work with me instead of giving me issues with trying to get them down and out. Let me tell you, fighting the words is a bitch. I don't think that there is a writer's block, there's just an inability to want to get those words down and issues mentally that stops the connection between word and writer's mind.
Which can suck. But still not writer's block.
So I've been getting words but they have been hard fought for words, which tend to read better than an easy flowing words but hey that shit happens.
Inspiration helps me get the words. And I love it. I love the fact that I can put the music on and get the words out and then...then I can go back with a sickle in hand and cut them down or fix them up. Whatever I need to make them look polished and pretty.
As for words...I'm currently at 2,0633 words and I need to cram so many words in yet.
Monday, April 24, 2017
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
April 2017 and What Has Been Going On
Today's Earworm: Narcissistic Cannibal (cover) by Earlyrise
Today's Date: April 18, 2017
So I'm pretty sure that you've noticed that I haven't posted a new blog for two weeks in a row right?
Eh, I'm sorry that I didn't but I kind of needed to just stop and get away from things. I needed to relax and focus on my writing and not my blog as I've been doing for most Sunday's since I started a long term Monday Blog Series.
I had to stop and focus on...me.
I've spoken about my mental issues, including ADD and OCD, but I don't think that I've talked about the issues that I have with Depression, Anxiety and panic attacks. At least not in detail.
No, I'm not going to talk about those in detail this post so don't worry.
I am going to talk about what has been going on in my writing life and what I'm shifting around, fixing up and thinking about in regards to it.
After my lovely friend left last Sunday, I kind of crashed. And hard. I didn't write all that much during the first week of Camp and the second week kind of was meh, but this week so far has been good. I haven't actually worked on either Black Veiled Saviour or Bad Dog. At least not in getting words so far.
I've been working on other things that need to be focused on. But I have, surprisingly, gotten over 16 thousand words. I have dropped my word counts down to 30K because of the rocky start to my writing, but shit happens.
I'm also doing a lot of rewriting and going over information with various stories. It's seemed to be working well enough for me, so I'm happy with that.
I just need to finish off a few things. Get them off of my long, long list. Which is driving me up a wall. A big, craggly wall.
But I'm doing it.
So thank you for understanding. Tune in next week for the update on the stories and after that I'll be talking about what I'm thinking of doing for the next few posts.
Today's Date: April 18, 2017
So I'm pretty sure that you've noticed that I haven't posted a new blog for two weeks in a row right?
Eh, I'm sorry that I didn't but I kind of needed to just stop and get away from things. I needed to relax and focus on my writing and not my blog as I've been doing for most Sunday's since I started a long term Monday Blog Series.
I had to stop and focus on...me.
I've spoken about my mental issues, including ADD and OCD, but I don't think that I've talked about the issues that I have with Depression, Anxiety and panic attacks. At least not in detail.
No, I'm not going to talk about those in detail this post so don't worry.
I am going to talk about what has been going on in my writing life and what I'm shifting around, fixing up and thinking about in regards to it.
After my lovely friend left last Sunday, I kind of crashed. And hard. I didn't write all that much during the first week of Camp and the second week kind of was meh, but this week so far has been good. I haven't actually worked on either Black Veiled Saviour or Bad Dog. At least not in getting words so far.
I've been working on other things that need to be focused on. But I have, surprisingly, gotten over 16 thousand words. I have dropped my word counts down to 30K because of the rocky start to my writing, but shit happens.
I'm also doing a lot of rewriting and going over information with various stories. It's seemed to be working well enough for me, so I'm happy with that.
I just need to finish off a few things. Get them off of my long, long list. Which is driving me up a wall. A big, craggly wall.
But I'm doing it.
So thank you for understanding. Tune in next week for the update on the stories and after that I'll be talking about what I'm thinking of doing for the next few posts.
Monday, April 3, 2017
April Camp Nano 2017 - Part 1
Today's Earworm: Heart Heart Head by Meg Myers
Today's Date: April 3, 2017
I have made a decision. A very serious decision to.
It's about Black Veiled Saviour, which is one of two books that I'm working on.
I have decided to just scrap the original story and start it anew. I have plans on using bits and pieces of the current chapters that I have, but I'm not going to continue the current story line.
I still need to work a few things out but to note I am keeping the characters used so far, and keeping their personalities. It's going to be interesting to rewrite this world.
But that'll wait for a bit of time. I'll survive. Really.
Now, something I wanted to talk about: Genres. I've noticed that there have been threads about Happily Ever After's (HEA) in romance and why it's a part of romance.
If you don't have a HEA it's not a romance damnit! We read romance for that. That is what makes romance romance.
People are trying to get rid of the need for HEA's and a few other things that make the romance genre what it is. Which is kind of stupid actually because then it's not romance.
Now mind you, romance has so many sub-genres that the sub-genres need sub-genres. It's that damn vast of a genre.
I personally write horror, comedy-horror, mystery, and sometimes Sci-fi, but I still work within the rules that sell those genres. Why?
Because that's what sells. It's been changed and perfected and honed over the years. A genre is set up a certain way because it works and yes, I'm playing with some cliches and some not so cliches and changing up my characters and introducing some new ideas...but...
I am still playing by the damn rules.
I write according to the beats that were set by authors that were around long before I was. I write my villains and I write my heros and I write my victims according to what sells.
And I do the same for my romances, rare as they are.
Stop trying to be edgy. Even the author of Twilight played by the rules set in her genre, as distasteful as I find the book. I grew up on Dracula, and Anne Rice okay. Vampires do not sparkle and those wolves aren't werewolves. They're shifters.
But still, genre 'rules' are there for a reason. And that is because...
They fucking well sell! Learn what the guidelines are and figure out how to put your own damn spin on them. That's the idea behind writing. I swear.
Today's Date: April 3, 2017
I have made a decision. A very serious decision to.
It's about Black Veiled Saviour, which is one of two books that I'm working on.
I have decided to just scrap the original story and start it anew. I have plans on using bits and pieces of the current chapters that I have, but I'm not going to continue the current story line.
I still need to work a few things out but to note I am keeping the characters used so far, and keeping their personalities. It's going to be interesting to rewrite this world.
But that'll wait for a bit of time. I'll survive. Really.
Now, something I wanted to talk about: Genres. I've noticed that there have been threads about Happily Ever After's (HEA) in romance and why it's a part of romance.
If you don't have a HEA it's not a romance damnit! We read romance for that. That is what makes romance romance.
People are trying to get rid of the need for HEA's and a few other things that make the romance genre what it is. Which is kind of stupid actually because then it's not romance.
Now mind you, romance has so many sub-genres that the sub-genres need sub-genres. It's that damn vast of a genre.
I personally write horror, comedy-horror, mystery, and sometimes Sci-fi, but I still work within the rules that sell those genres. Why?
Because that's what sells. It's been changed and perfected and honed over the years. A genre is set up a certain way because it works and yes, I'm playing with some cliches and some not so cliches and changing up my characters and introducing some new ideas...but...
I am still playing by the damn rules.
I write according to the beats that were set by authors that were around long before I was. I write my villains and I write my heros and I write my victims according to what sells.
And I do the same for my romances, rare as they are.
Stop trying to be edgy. Even the author of Twilight played by the rules set in her genre, as distasteful as I find the book. I grew up on Dracula, and Anne Rice okay. Vampires do not sparkle and those wolves aren't werewolves. They're shifters.
But still, genre 'rules' are there for a reason. And that is because...
They fucking well sell! Learn what the guidelines are and figure out how to put your own damn spin on them. That's the idea behind writing. I swear.
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