Thread by @owillis

#bayhembook progress
Today: 1,501 words
Total: 29,669 words (30% of goal)

Honestly today’s production felt a little *meh* but I’ve consistently written for 12 straight days now so I’ll look at the glass as half full. Tomorrow I start out writing a big action scene.

I always end a writing session with a few lines starting the next scene so I get a kickstart the next day for where the hell my head was before.

I would not be this consistent without an outline. I’m never starting a project like this without an outline again, because I go on flights of fancy and then I get “lost.” Even if the outline sucks and needs revisions I have an idea of where the hell im going.

The best part is when I have points a and b and then come up with some weird bullshit that fits that I never planned, but I don’t get lost cause I have the two plot points to work in between.

The problem I had when I was trying to write a fantasy novel is that sometimes the weird bullshit in between was me inventing a whole religion and then later I had to refer back to something I was just riffing on and it got a little muddy.

I still want to eventually get back to my fantasy idea cause I like the ideas in it, though I suspect my writing style is going to be too “brief” for people who like fantasy. But whatever! It’s for fun.

I just don’t like really ornate language for myself, and that’s probably a side effect of writing media analysis, news, tweets and blogging for over 20 years now. For me, it’s just a fucking lamp and the important thing is that a sword is going to slice a head, not the lamp.