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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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A Lesson in Failure
[Day 7 of 30]: Everyday is a fresh start or at least I hope it is; because today’s writing sucked. It sucked hard. It sucked so bad, I don’t even want to post anything that I wrote. My Inner Critic is having a field day, ripping the results of today’s attempt to shreds and I hate to give it more timber for the fire. On the good side, I wrote. I tried. I took a prompt and gave it my best shot. On the bad side, it was awful, dreadful, boring, and trite. Instead of letting myself feel embarrassed, I’m going to just be happy that I wrote something. I’m…
