Sometime's a break's a good thing. The story for my friend is at 42 pages with widened margins, and before I added about 10 pages to it I hadn't worked on it for a week, simply because I couldn't bring myself to write it.

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It feels like I'm taking an eternal break from my book. o.O
I very rarely am able to write it. And I haven't truly "written" for a long, long time. All I've done is reworked sections and done a whole lot of editing.

I'm sure a short break isn't going to do any harm at all. ^—^

Hope all is well.

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Danke and yes, all is well... Just thinkn that there has been too much else to do and not enough real quiet time.

How I'm going to manage much now that the boys are home from school and we have a family vacation coming up plus our trying to get our house ready to put onto the market to sell so we can move... I really don't know. Heh.. might be the other stress, I guess.

I know how that editing goes. If I even START in on more editing, I'll probably get stuck. There is more story in my head, so I'll probably cave in in a few days and write again.

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I reject your reality and substitute my own.

*hugs* I'm working with normal margins, huge paragraphs, which I need to go back and fix and non-indention. o.O I have a feeling that it will add about 4 pages more if I fixed those. Maybe more. *shrugs* I'm just writing the story and trying to make it fluid and interesting.

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I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Hmm, that is QUITE a lot going on. And it's very difficult to write without quiet.
Usually I have to either do it late at night or hide in a corner somewhere with headphones.

Right now all I can really dooooo is edit because I have a few stuck places.
For one thing I have NO clue how to write a war, and there's also the case of figuring out whether or not to separate the story into more than one book, and currently I'm stuck doing some major editing in the second chapter because I have to invent a calendar and timekeeping system for one of the civilizations. And that's just ONE of the them. o_______O alsdkfjaler RAaaaaaaaaargh.

In any case, tell me how it goes. It's always good to hear that a fellow writer is progressing, rather than dying and rotting. ^—^

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- The mind is an important one.

i think it's called procrastination Chani and yes, everyone does it. Just give yourself a break and soon enough you'll feel like you want to write some more, especially something to do with my character!

No kidding. ^_^ Well, I went on an editing spree... read through it all over a few day's time and made proper paragraphs. It added 9 pages to it. o.O Blech. I think I'll go back and fix some of that... not really happy with it.. isn't my natural flow yet.. but.. that will come with time.


asdl;fjasldfjasldfjand rawwwwwaar with ya there. Creating totally new things is horrible. I mostly write around things and wait for inspiration. I'll make notes about what I am thinking or what direction in which I'm thinking and just leave it and keep going on. Sometimes as you write the story.. the ideas come to you... I know I've had to go back and edit things because as I was writing a story, I came to a part where I had to alter something significantly so that it would fit better or make more sense... causing me to have to redo a whole section. Usually it makes it better and more interesting, so I don't have qualms with changes like that.

I hope you get to keep going. I don't have much hope for much peace right now. Maybe when my son goes to summer school in a couple of weeks. I can only hope.

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I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Oh.. I did write about your character. And I will soon write more. I'm just trying to figure out how to NOT make him be a bad dude.

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I reject your reality and substitute my own.

9 pages? o_O; wow. That's a lot of progress, even though you do have a lot of editing to do next. I think the initial writing of the first layer (the foundation for all the editing and changes) is the hardest.

That happens to me all the time. I've only completely rewritten my whole book once, but I've rewritten sections and changed huge pieces of the storyline countless times.
But yes, in the end it does make it much better. As painful as it can be, I don't regret it.

Well, my laptop has a new adapter now - no more turning off suddenly in the middle of projects. Maybe I can get back to my story a little in the next few days, when not occupied with schoolwork.

WHY do I have to smash everything into a small timeline when I had the rest of the year to spread it out? @.o

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- The mind is an important one.