The Limbo Chronologies

Photo by Geomancer448 under CC BY-SA 4.0 at Wikimedia.org Hello, reader. September is coming to an end and soon the spooky month, (October), begins. I must admit that from all the twelve months in the year, the tenth is one of my favorites. The air is perfectly crisp and cool, the wind in the trees is loud and biting, and the leaves begin their fiery withering before gently tumbling to the ground. That, and it’s dark, and people tend to go out less late in the evening, leaving the parks and city streets bare, wet, and cold. Leaving it all to me. Also, if you’ve noticed, Chapter three is out! It might take some time before chapter four is ready, seeing as I have simulation training starting next week, (Long days from eight to four), so I won’t have much time between thesis work and all the things I need to do (gym etc.). (That’s all on the Limbo Chronologies front). What are you waiting for? Go enjoy the new chapter! The rest of this post concerns a thought I’ve had about consistency, ...

Time for another post! Welcome, you faceless reader! You’ve probably noticed chapter two in the sidebar. Perhaps you’ve already read it. Perhaps you enjoyed it. Thank you, regardless. I just finished part two’s third chapter’s first draft, (what a mouthful), and I find myself in a weird spot. Personal Now that I’ve taken it upon myself to start this Blog and to post at least semi-regularly, I feel as though an element of carelessness regarding the story has been stymied. That’s not to say that I’m careless, or that I don’t take my writing seriously. Rather, I feel as though my headspace is different when writing part two, compared to when I was writing part one. In a way, I’ve gone against the ‘writing with the door closed,’ modality, as Stephen King puts it. The thought of everything I write being, not for me personally, but for everyone, does something to the wrinkly fleshy bits in my noggin. That is something that should only be reserved for third, fourth or the nth draft,...

Writing is hard. Even now, as I type into this blank docx file, I struggle to come up with the proper words to describe just how hard it is. It becomes far more difficult, at least for me, when writing something like this, instead of prose. (This being the main reason why I’ve put off doing another blog post, even though I chide myself in doing so). That is not to say that I didn’t have difficulties in writing fiction a few years back. Those difficulties came, not from language, but from a skewed mindset on how to embark on projects, and how to write fiction in general. So, as I work on part two of The Limbo Chronologies, and edit part one, I thought about sharing what helps me, and how I go about things. I’ll start with telling you about my routine. Routine Put simply, I sit down every day, (usually in the morning), I open my hour/word tracker excel sheet, I clock in, I write. I use the Pomodoro technique, (mostly). 25 minutes of deep focus, 5 minute break, repeat, until I finish ...