Gillian Anderson Is The Best!

Day forty-nine

of @the-wip-project​‘s challenge.

Q49: How do you get yourself in the mood to write? Do you have a ritual?

A49: Trying to fall asleep... just kidding! That is often when ideas come to me, but I digress. To put myself in the mood I do have a ritual:

Decide what I want to write.

Clean for 15 minutes while listening to music from the era I’m writing in.

Write for 25 minutes.

Take a 5 minute break

Review, am I writing what I set out to write? If it is better and relevant, then continue otherwise go back to 3.

Write for 25 minutes.  

Repeat as necessary until I’ve run out of time.

Truth

I used to think I had high standards for men but then realized this high standard was “women”

Lexa’s eye roll is my fave 

#stubborn girlfriends

Day sixty (60/100)

I’m skipping a series of @the-wip-project‘s prompts to land on this one:

Q60: How do you start your chapters? Do you start with dialogue? Why or why not?

A60: I’ve not really thought about this before but, on reviewing the two wips on currently focusing on, I rarely start chapters with dialogue. In the chapters I do, I use it to startle the reader as a character is being startled by whomever has just started talking to them.

Dark Matter season 1 = Canuck sci-fi + Ruby Rose! Franchement c’est bien fait ça

hey so I finally made a scifi recommendations slideshow

stay tuned for a fantasy one

Please reblog if you think that “they/them/theirs” is a valid set of pronouns.

Day Twenty-five

of @the-wip-project‘s #100daysofwriting challenge

Q25: What have you learned recently,  about yourself, about your writing, about your story?

A25: I’ve learnt all kinds of things recently, part of it during this challenge the most important ones to me are:

It’s difficult for me to “find time” aka force myself into a chair and actually write. Part of this issue is because I do have little time with a young family, a full time job and elders whom I support. But ... more and more I am concerned that I am not writing because when I finish this current wip I will have to say goodbye to the wip’s world and characters and I’m not ready to give up that part of my brain.

I have no shortage of creative ideas. I have difficulty putting them into a cohesive plot.

I tend to rework my plot every few months. I try very hard to stick to one but ... then ideas that are better occur to me.