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February 14, 2022
That feeling when you have named your main character Valentine...
That feeling when you have named your main character Valentine and he also happens to be a pirate….
Today I am hoping to finish the final light edits to the Regency Rapunzel retelling and to start editing Hades’ story tomorrow. What are you reading this week?
ARCs of Retold coming: February 25th
Retold paperbacks & ebook coming: March 31st
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February 13, 2022
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Giving you some writer reflections for th...
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metamorphesque:
— franz kafka, letters to felice
— franz kafka, letters to felice
that one time it snowed
that one time it snowed
February 12, 2022
metamorphesque:
— James Baldwin, They Can’t Turn Back
— James Baldwin, They Can’t Turn Back
February 10, 2022
Ebony hair or golden? Pick my main character, Zella’s hair...
Ebony hair or golden? Pick my main character, Zella’s hair color! Poll in my stories or comment below ⬇ (at Writing)
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February 8, 2022
{New Book Release}
Enchanted Locks: A Dark Fantasy Paranormal...
{New Book Release}
Enchanted Locks: A Dark Fantasy Paranormal Romance Rapunzel Retelling (The Cursed Girl) Kindle Edition
by Maria Vermisoglou
Life as a witch is hard. Hell is worse.
Be prepared dear reader, for this is no gentle bedtime story…
Fortuna has led a good life as a demon-slaying witch in the White Land until now…
Kidnapped by a demon and locked into a tower with no way out, she’s devastated to discover her powers disappeared.
However, when a handsome stranger flies past her prison, she must set aside her distrust and ask for help.
With only weapons her deadly hair, she must come to trust this strange man if Fortuna wants any chance at escape. But can she overcome her distrust in time, or will she be tormented in Hell forever?
Enchanted Locks is a dark fantasy paranormal romance story with slow-burn romance that contains mild violence and some steam. If you love witches and dark fairytales, welcome aboard!
Release date: March 15th
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February 6, 2022
pens-swords-stuff:What do you mean writing involves writi...
What do you mean writing involves writing??
February 5, 2022
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I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So I reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that 800-word wall taken down, I’ve been writing more. “I won’t get on tumblr/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal” used to be something I said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn’t cough up four pages in one sitting, I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it’s something I say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can’t stop now, because I’m enjoying myself, I’m having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn’t been true of my original works since middle school.
And sometimes I think, “Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred.” And I have to stop myself, because - I am writing half as much as Terry Pratchett. Terry fucking Pratchett, who not only published regularly up until his death, but published books that were consistently good.
And this has also been an immense help as a writer with ADHD, because I don’t feel bad when I take a break from writing - two hundred words works up quick, after all. If I take a break at 150, I have a whole day to write 50 more words, and I’ve rarely written less than 200 words and not felt the need to keep writing because I need to tie up a loose end anyways.
Yes, sometimes, I do not produce a single thing worth keeping in those two hundred words. But it’s much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all.
This is the second time this post passes on my dash and it’s the best advice I ever got. I can’t write consistently in one go, it’s always about 50 words and then I get distracted and just have to do something else for a while. Do the math quickly: trying to write 2000 words a day takes a looooong time that way. So there were many days where I just didn’t even start writing, cause I wouldn’t reach my goal anyways and feel like a failure. Then I stumbled upon this post and I thought: hey, let’s give this a try. And it works! I set my goal between 200-400 words a day and that’s perfectly doable. Some days I get into the flow and I write a whole lot more. On other days, I struggle to get those 200 out but hey, at least I wrote 200 words and reached my goal. Whatever the outcome, t makes me feel good and accomplished.
Writing takes practice, so even if it’s only 100 words a day, it’s better than nothing. If it worked for Terry Pratchett and me, than it can work for you too!
This might be a good way to deal with my frustration at not writing anymore.
250 new words / day is my goal this year! I love it. New projects develop slowly and in a stress-free fashion, leaving time and headspace for editing and planning new things (aka delicious daydreaming). Like op says, you can always write more if you want to and have time.
