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@nova21
In the middle of writing right now and just wanted to hop in and see how you were doing! Have you made any progress today?

@kathleenramm Character development is actually not my strong suit. I rarely go around planning what my characters are gonna look like before I start writing. Usually my mind goes, “I want a story about this.” And then I already have some vague ideas of what the main character is like (e.g. one personality trait, one physical appearance trait, but…[Read more]

Currently reading 50 pgs a day of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I haven’t been this emotionally invested in a book like this since East of Eden. Ivan is my favorite character so far. Can’t wait to finish it.

@nova21
No worries! I get unexpected writing interruptions more often than not. XD

Last night’s writing was pretty productive, I did as much as I could before I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer. XD I’ll probably be writing again around 7:00 p.m. or 9:00 p.m. eastern time today, what time works best for you?

@nova21

I was just about to start writing! I’d love to do it with you!

@abigail-m Ey this it cool! I’m not doing it really this year but I did pledge 45k words in one of my projects… Good luck everyone!

@kathleenramm

What encourages me generally differs depending on why I’m discouraged. God blessed me with an exceptionally easy project that I’ve been working on for the past two years or so, so it’s a little tricky to remember the last time I handled discouragement well, since the project before that… I did not handle well. XD But I remember…[Read more]

@gracie-j I’m so glad you found that post encouraging! ^-^

@kathleenramm I always hate reading old writing and feeling like I haven’t improved *cries*

To readjust my focus I usually pray but then I also like to remind myself of things like “it’s okay to not be perfect” and things like that XD

@kathleenramm Ah, I do ballet, play piano, make music sheets, make electronic music, draw… And I want to learn other instruments and languages, as well as a lot of other things. Too bad I have no time XD

@gracie-j @devastate-lasting @writerlexi1216

Thanks for bringing this up!

When someone brought it up a few months ago, I changed a few things in the settings of the site, and that seemed to help a little bit, but not quite fixed the problem. So I just went back and made another tweak to the site, which may make things better, or may make things…[Read more]

@devastate-lasting

Very true. Besides writing, what are some other favorite hobbies of yours?

I think have too many hobbies for my own good, but I wouldn’t want to have it any other way. XD

@epicaddie2

ugh, comparison is the worst right? Even comparing yourself to something that you wrote before can be discouraging if you feel like your…[Read more]

@gracie-j Thank you! It’s from a song called “White Silence” by TK!

@gracie-j ;-; Thanks for bring this up, Grace. This is why I always, ALWAYS, copy the whole text before starting a new forum topic, just in case this happens.

@joy-caroline

I always do a lot of brainstorming with a new idea (a.k.a. brain dumping into a journal). I basically just kinda write down whatever little ideas come to mind for the book idea, and when I feel like I have a good amount, I might try to arrange the ideas into plot points. At the same time I work on the characters too, figuring out…[Read more]

@joy-caroline Lemme run through a slightly embarrassing way of how I developed Under That Dusky Sky so far…

1. Cue me watching Monsters Inc. Seeing Randall, I think, “Well. I could do with some sort of character who can turn invisible who is super annoying and also a snitch.

2. Riding in a car a few weeks later, I’m thinking back to this one…[Read more]

@gracie-j Yep! I would love to write a script for my novel. I should probably finish it first though XD I’ve spent literally hours imagining it as a movie XD Yes, I saw it a couple months ago! I watched it with my family and we didn’t realize it was a Christian movie when we started it XD I was nervous it would be preachy like most Christian m…[Read more]