Recent content by blushiemagic

Not-so-subtle flex

Different is obviously harder, but thankfully there's a way around this: You can have every single one of your MC's share genders with you if you're genderfluid.

There’s been lots of discussion about how long each chapter should be, with lots of different answers. But the first chapter is always the most important. How long are people’s chapter 1’s compared to their other chapters? Are readers more willing to tolerate a particularly long or short chapter...

Sometimes I cringe at stuff I wrote seconds ago

I too would like to know these discords

According to my last post about this... Clearly, not traumatized at all, it is but a fleeting dream.

I don’t study creative writing, my brain just involuntarily vomits words onto the screen

My plan is to write the entirety of the first book before I post anything at all. That way I'll have between 6 to 12 months of backlog. As for how that plan is actually going... I almost got to the halfway point, then I fell into a rut of endlessly editing the chapters I already have...

So, 10k words. Got it.

Autistic person here who neither uses nor recognizes body language, feeling invisible 😔

I don’t have allergies… buuuut I am an extreme night owl and daylight savings has completely annihilated me. I went from having hours of energy to spend on writing daily, to averaging half an hour per day.

I’ve learned that, no matter how many times I tell myself “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” I will always turn the perfect and the good into mortal enemies.

So it sounds like I’m right to worry about the slow pacing and the first chapter being all over the place. I should probably try to be more focused. Currently things don’t get more focused until partway through chapter 2 (although then it gets bogged down by standard starting-litRPG and...

The hardest part for me is finding the ever-elusive free time. In between work, and commuting, spending time with partners, and sleeping and getting trapped in my nightmares, chores, I think I only average like 30-60 minutes a day to edit and write these days :blob_dizzy: Editing is a close...

Bold to assume I’ve ever tried writing a book before