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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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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…
