Hey everyone,
Holiday is finally over and it’s back to the grindstone. The grindstone being work, of course, not the blog. Quick recap of the holidays: spent a week visiting in-laws then another week back in Shanghai relaxing. Did a little driving practice for my upcoming test, had dinner with the folks, all in all stayed busy. Managed to get another chapter done and finished the outline for the last two chapters so hopefully will get those done in a week or two and then it’s time for rewrites. Huzzah!!!
What do they call the Chinese New Year in China? They call it the New Year.
Well as I thought, I was not able to really get any writing done this week. The most I was able to do was rewrite the end of the last chapter a little bit to better set up the following one. I also made the scene list for the next chapter and spent some time thinking about it.
I’m afraid this week I only managed to get 1500 words done this week. The good news is that I finished a chapter so the next chapter will have the climax and then I will be close to finishing the first draft. The problem is that I will need to think a bit on this next chapter as I know how it ends but I am not quite sure how I am going to get there other than knowing what the main character needs to do to get to the end I envision. Read More…
This will be a shorter post than normal since I don’t really have that much to report. I got down about 4000 words last week. Had my birthday and some extra work that took time away from writing. Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes.
Four scenes or a chapter？
It’s a little hard to do a word count this week as I finished one chapter and then the next one but I think it comes to around 6000 words.
Hey everyone,
I had thought about writing an article about the new Starwars movie (which I finally saw yesterday) as an exercise in storytelling but that would take a whole post and I want to stay focused on writing. I will talk about the novel I read last week (I can call reading novels research now, Huzzah) though.
Dear reader,
Happy New Year and welcome to 2018. I’ll be doing things a little differently for the next couple of months.
Hey everyone,
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I’ll be taking a break from blog until after the new year so I’ll see you all in 2018.
-Shanghaiwriter
A friend of mine had their birthday this week so I sent her a “Happy Birthday!!!” message. Their reply was “one year wiser.” My first thought on hearing this was “are you really?” In her case I would say yes, but it isn’t always the case especially in writing. More is not always better.