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Fear the Road, Not the Dreams
[Day 25 of 30]: I’m still writing. I almost can’t believe it. It’s a struggle to sit down, find a prompt, and fill a page with words. I usually hate the words, but appreciate the stolen moments with my MUSE. And I’ve learned something. Nobody sees the world the same way as me. Not really a huge epiphany at first blush. But what it means (at least to me) is that there is a point to all this scribbling and typing. There’s a point to suffering through broken thoughts and story ideas that I can barely get on paper. Every day I get better at describing the way I see…
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Always the Same BS
[Day 23 of 30]: While my MUSE contemplates the changes I’ve envisioned for Shattered Souls, I’ve decided to come up with new story ideas. I can’t promise anything will come from these small scenes, but I want to explore the words and images that barrage my mind. Every time I drive home, I feel the sensual world around me and hope that someday I can express what I feel in words. One day… Writer’s Prompt: describe the beginning of an ordinary day for your main character. Rose stepped over another broken bottle. She enjoyed hearing the glass crunch beneath her boots and she stomped hoping for another satisfying pop. Rose…
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Whats Your Secret?
[Day 21 of 30]: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I finally figured out why my MUSE has been getting stuck so often while writing the Shattered Soul’s scenes. I have realized that my main characters just don’t have real, emotion inducing conflict keeping them from their goals. They go about their daily lives and barely notice the antagonist that I’ve created. They take easily achievable steps toward their goals and nothing seems to stand in their way for very long. This is great for real life, but takes the excitement out of my story arc. The bad news is that I haven’t…
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The Calm before the Cat Fight
[Day 20 of 30]: In a world of writer’s block, I am still trying to kill my characters off by Zombie infestation. However, they keep fighting back… and winning. I might just have to accept defeat and continue with my original story line. However, tomorrow is another day…. of writing. Hail to the MUSE! Writer’s Prompt: Describe the aftermath. Who is still angry, who is still jealous, and who is still looking for a little nooky? Sera waited outside for her cab. She picked pieces of bone and small chunks of flesh out of her hair and threw them into the street. Her favorite dress was a complete disaster. The…
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Random Zombie Fight
[Day 19 of 30]: I’m slowly learning that the best way to get my MUSE to show up every day is to stop censoring her when she gets a little crazy. Unfortunately for me, that means when I get frustrated, my MUSE thinks that random zombie fights solve all my ills. This scene started out perfect fine, but, as I was writing, I got frustrated and upset because I’m still stuck on how I want to change this story’s plot arc. From what I’ve figured out so far, I already have to rewrite a lot of the scenes I’ve created for it, just so it’ll make sense later. So, halfway…
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A Moment of Comfort
[Day 18 of 30]: Sometimes, you can use your characters to give yourself exactly what is needed. Sometimes they need to calm down, so that you don’t wear out your readers or yourself. And that’s what I had to do today. I needed my story and my life to calm down for just a moment, and since I figure I can edit it out if I don’t like it later, there’s nothing stopping me from writing exactly what I want and need right now. Apparently writing means listening to myself and my characters needs. And this is what my writing needed today. Writer’s Prompt: For just a moment, let the…
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Heart Fire
[Day 17 of 30]: I’m having a lot of trouble developing the larger story here. Some of the scenes keep coming, but the plot is falling apart between my fingers. I wish I could say it’s been easy to write, but today was hard and frustrating. VERY frustrating. So I guess this scene comes at a perfect time. I tried to let some of the frustration show through. I tried to give my MUSE a voice without falling completely off the storyline. However, I can’t promise that I won’t send in an army of zombies to kill off my characters completely. On the other hand, it’s day 17 and I’m…
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The White Rose
[Day 16 of 30]: So, I finally got up the nerve to write a sex scene. Yes, my dear adult readers, this scene has sex…. but…. I don’t have the guts to post it, not all of it anyway. My apologies. But, I promise that when I finally finish this story, I will include a link to the entire file & you can read all the lovely naughty bits that I’ve left out. Cross my heart. In the meantime, it was extremely freeing to write this love scene. I wanted to show the instant rapport that my two main characters have with each other (due to their magical and mysterious…
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Cemetery Confessions
[Day 15 of 30]: Its funny when the characters start talking to you. its funny when it feels like they are telling you the story through some weird form of telepathy. I love the feeling of writing in a deep and engaging flow when words practically sparkle off the page. But it is weird to hear somebody else’s voice in my head as each character tries to tell me something new about my story, something I didn’t know a minute before I wrote it. I intend to cultivate and keep this feeling for as long as possible. I intend to keep challenging myself to write every day no matter…
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Tooth and Nail
[Day 14 of 30]: I’m working with a little family dynamics 101 in my writing today. It was fun imagining what having a brother would be like… and what sort of things brothers and sisters fight about. I’m pretty exhausted from writing every day, but proud of my progress. And my MUSE seems much happier now that I have allocated special time just for her. I can definitely see that I’ve got lots of interesting scene ideas — well, I think they are interesting anyway 🙂 And I’m going to have to take some time very soon to rewrite the entire plot outline for this story. I’m enjoying the paranormal…
