Personal deadlines

Friday 29th April 2016

Exciting times are coming and i just had to write this post immediately!

I’ve been keeping to a strict deadline as much as i can because i promised myself at the beginning of this year that 2016 would be the year that i’d set the line straight for my life before i turn 20.
I know what i want my life to be like and both my partner and i are in complete sink with this which is insane as it can be. So, getting this book series written and done is just one of the main steps that is really pushing me forward because i want nothing more than to be a writer and to have my freedom.

With the deadline of minimum words that i’m working on lately which is 2000 a day, i should have this first manuscript completely finished and written within the next 3 weeks. Which, thinking back to the beginning of the year, i wouldn’t have thought that this would’ve been even slightly possible with how busy and insane my schedule was, but i’ve made the time for the important things.

This post is just going to be one ball of excitement because of how fizzled my mind feels right now.
The hundreds of ideas i’ve got running through my head and noted down on paper are just the most random and thrilling things, and to put them out on paper in words one day, i just don’t know what they’re going to come out like, and quite frankly, they could make me look rather insane. But these thoughts, ideas, worlds and characters just need to be built and put out into the world in whatever format is going to be possible.It feels like being a writer is my destiny, because i’ve gone through so many different hobbies in life that i thought i held so much passion for, but in the end i didn’t. Writing for me was just on the sideline, something i did when i felt like it and i never really put any thought into what i was doing. But one day a few years ago after i’d finished with school and was left thinking what to do with my life i just thought, i might actually sit down and give this a go, what harm could it do?

And now here we are today…one contemporary done and the manuscript sitting on the shelf, and now the first book in my fantasy trilogy on the way to being wrapped up, plus the so many other books that are in the planning that won’t let my mind settle.
I’m so excited to see where I’m going to be this time next year, but i’ve got a lot more hard work to be putting in until then!

Love and Light and keep on writing!

I couldn’t be writing fast enough!

Tuesday 26th April 2016

I’m pushing to my wits end and now i think i know what it really feels like to be a writer…not wanting to spend a single second on yourself but just continuously wanting to work and live in the world you’re creating.
There is so much i want/need to get day and my brain seems to be working and planning faster then my hands could ever work! There’s only so many thousands of words i can write in one day before i go completely brain dead, and that’s the frustrating part. Not to mention my stupid working hours at my ‘real job’, getting up at 4am everyday just really doesn’t want to be working with my writing schedule, even though it does help a little when it comes to procrastinating, planning and writing the occasional piece when I’m on a break.

One other bonus that’s coming up, other than the usual writing time i normally get in the week, i’m going to have extra next week! Bring on a five day break from work, something me and my book could really do with. No more early mornings and tired brains for a little while, something i’m rather going to enjoy.

I’ve also got this little urge to work on some of the short stories that are floating around in my head. But knowing me, by the time it comes to working on them they won’t actually turn out to be short stories…i really must start to understand my limits. Ha!

I’m also trying to avoid to pull i’m feeling towards the manuscript of the contemporary i worked on for a few years. I know it needs to be done and i love the story, but i know for a fact that it isn’t it’s time right now. I’ve just got that feeling that if i leave it to settle for a little, let my brain rework the plot, that when it comes to do the final rewrite it’s going to come out ten times better then it had before, which has always been the main struggle with that one.
It just seems like there are manuscripts lying everywhere that are beckoning me to finish them and be drawn into their pages…must refrain from getting distracted from this main plot…wish me luck! 

It’s a fresh week!

Monday 18th April 2016

So…it’s been a whole week since i sat down at this desk and worked my ass of get this book done and i’m pleased to say, that even with having a break this weekend i managed to get a whopping 10,000 words down, which is definitely a record for me this year.

The words are most definitely keeping their flow this time around, and it’s amazing how much you can actually get done without having to continuously pester yourself about reaching a certain goal.
Yes, it’s important to have goals when you’re trying to reach such a high target, but putting those right at the forefront of your mind puts way too much pressure on you and takes away the fun.
You’ll reach it if you work hard, and if you don’t…who cares? There’s always tomorrow.

Love and Light and keeping on Writing!

 

8000 words!

Tuesday 12th April 2016

You heard it – 8000 words! That’s how many i’ve been able to tap out in just under 2 days of persistent writing. I’m determined to get this first draft done within the next months and with this rate of writing it’s put me just over the half way mark with my estimated length. 
I’m feeling positively motivated to keep writing after my recent posts i’ve done because the plot line is progressing just how i want it to.

Even though i’m not able to fit in a huge amount of reading because of the writing it’s so exciting and i couldn’t be happier the way things are working out. 

We have a flow!

Saturday 9th April 2016

It’s 06:33am on a saturday morning and we have a flow!
The writing has become so easy in this past week that i’m just hammering out the words without even having to think about it, just like i used to.
The tension and pressure has fallen from my shoulders and i’m actually able to enjoy my work again without always putting myself down about the lack of it.

I’m hoping (she says) that i’ll be able to get the first draft of this manuscript done by next month if i really push on with it, but that is a highly optimistic thought.

Also i’ve drafted the last paragraph for all three of the novels in this trilogy, which, is making life easier now i have something to aim towards. Maybe i’ll share some of these or a little extract from the first book at the end of the month.

Anyway i must toddle off, plots to write and worlds to create!