Summer 2016 Writing

[anastasia517]

 incognito kangaroo11 mousemelon @writererin Pom EnchantedSoul gardengal fatamy lilibet revjen

It is now officially summer and July's Camp starts in 2 days. Is anybody participating?

What is currently going on in your world in terms of writing... pre-writing, drafting, editing, revising, looking for an agent, etc?

Also something I have been thinking about now that I have moved. What do you use as your main writing space? What supplies/music/etc do you like to have when you write? Any pictures would be appreciated!

[revjen]

I don't know how to PIP but I write on my laptop on the couch mostly. When my cat decides to allow me to.

I'm not sure that I'm going to formally participate in Camp Nano this time around.  I might.

[Pom]

Keep tagging me, eventually I will be back! We moved too...I haven't figured out my writing spot either, LOL.

[anastasia517]

Jun 30, 2016 9:38:49 GMT -5 c7 said:

I'm working on a WIP too! What's Camp Nano?

Welcome!

Camp is similar to NaNoWriMo, but you can set any goal that is over 10,000 words instead of being limited to the set goal. You can work on revisions, continue projects, do something new, a bunch of short stories, whatever for this one.

I would love to hear more about your WIP if you want to share.

[calamity]

I've just started writing my first novel, and so thankful I saw this board.

I have the basis for the novel and I am attempting to write the opening chapter. I have an idea of where I want it to go, but already I can see that I might want to take it in different directions. I asked MH to read the first page, but he said he thinks I should wait until further along. I'm impatient, and very self conscious of my writing already. I'm not planning on telling anyone else IRL because what if it's horrible?

I keep telling myself I have to start somewhere...

[EnchantedSoul]

I thought for sure our little board was going to die!

I'm not doing Camp. In fact, you just reminded me that I was supposed to work on an article to submit but the deadline is today. Womp womp. I just can't seem to get it together.

I write at Panera. It's the only free time I have while DS1 is at karate.

[juliej]

I'm doing Camp, and I'm a total pantser. Got some ideas, but just gonna bang something out to get over a writing slump. I struggle with analysis paralysis and over-planning of things.

[anastasia517]

Jun 30, 2016 12:30:19 GMT -5 calamity said:

I've just started writing my first novel, and so thankful I saw this board.

I have the basis for the novel and I am attempting to write the opening chapter. I have an idea of where I want it to go, but already I can see that I might want to take it in different directions. I asked MH to read the first page, but he said he thinks I should wait until further along. I'm impatient, and very self conscious of my writing already. I'm not planning on telling anyone else IRL because what if it's horrible?

I keep telling myself I have to start somewhere...

I promise you, the feeling of "why did I think I could do this, my writing is absolute crap" is 100% normal.  In fact, I have found an image that says there is four stages to writing:

1) My writing sucks
2) This is getting somewhere
3) This part is amazing, I am the best
and back around to 4) My writing sucks.

Over and over again.

I know the temptation, but I would wait until you have a few chapters done before handing it off. Unless you knew exactly how to begin, you often talk yourself in circles at first trying to figure that out.

Care to tell us a bit about your story?

[anastasia517]

New "faces"!

EnchantedSoul Good to see you back! I had a lot of goals at the start of he year for this point halfway through and none of them happened since I still couldn't make an old story work without actually figuring some things out. Here is to the second half of the year, may it be an improvement on the first.

Sadly, there is no Panera in my area so I have never been. The Internet makes it seem great though.

juliej Welcome! I hope your first day of Camp is going well. What is your goal?

[juliej]

Jul 1, 2016 14:25:33 GMT -5 anastasia517 said:

juliej Welcome! I hope your first day of Camp is going well. What is your goal?

Finish a draft. It's the hump I haven't been able to get over in what feels like decades of doing NaNo. I switched to part-time freelance work recently, so I thought I'd try and see if I had better luck with a change of season and more time to write. 

[revjen]

Jul 1, 2016 9:51:17 GMT -5 juliej said:

I'm doing Camp, and I'm a total pantser. Got some ideas, but just gonna bang something out to get over a writing slump. I struggle with analysis paralysis and over-planning of things.

When i'm starting a new idea, i'm a pants too. I can't write from an outline.

[Deleted]

I'm not doing Camp NaNo this time around. However, my critique partner and I had our normal meeting yesterday morning and decided to try to set some goals, because we've both been having trouble writing this summer. The thing is, with working from home (and being able to set my own schedule), it's hard to have the structure to set aside a special time just for writing...because Netflix is tempting.

Anyway, the outcome was that we both decided that we're going to try to set aside one hour a day to work on what we need to work on (she's in the midst of prepping for submission, I'm in the midst of about a thousand projects in different stages), and we're going to text each other each day with what we accomplished. Hopefully, that will help me get back into the swing of things...because I really haven't written or revised much since I moved back at the beginning of May.

[imobviouslystaying]

I didn't know this board was still going. I was bored and looking for stuff to read and clicked over here.

I am currently revising my first novel and I hope to publish it with Kindle Publishing in two weeks but I plan to have it done and up by the end of the month at the latest. WOOT!

If I remember correctly, I started it as a Nano a few years ago, put it down and then picked up again at the beginning of this year and realized, hey, this isn't terrible and uhm, I think it's just about done. WOOT.

[kangaroo11]

I'm still making mental revisions to my 2014 novel that my 2016 novel will be part 2 for. Well, I hope to write it this year. My last attempt at writing while pregnant was my only year of failure.

[anastasia517]

imobviouslystaying Glad to see you found us! It's nice to see some CEP faces that I recognise. Good luck with your book! How much writing have you done in the past?

kangaroo11 Congrats on the baby and good luck revising. I am looking back at one of the 2 things I did in 2014 as well, hoping to get all the pre-writing done in the next week or two.

c7 I can so sympathise with that reaction. There are some things I feel like I should have gotten done ages ago but they are still sitting there, half-finished or with a plot hole I haven't figured out how to fix yet. :/

[midnightrae]

Keep me updated, I want to take part in this. How is everyone's WIP going?

[imobviouslystaying]

Jul 5, 2016 20:52:12 GMT -5 anastasia517 said:

imobviouslystaying Glad to see you found us! It's nice to see some CEP faces that I recognise. Good luck with your book! How much writing have you done in the past?

I have no idea how I missed this. I'm sorry!!

I've been writing off and on since I was about 15. I started with fanfic though. Some of my current stories have those roots but have evolved so far that I'm not sure anyone would recognize it unless I detailed it.

I have notebooks in storage, in the closet, etc with bits and pieces and family trees. I write romance, both contemporary and historical. Most of my contemporary characters are interrelated and I still have that original family tree somewhere. However, there are stand alone novels and independent series within that family. It's kind of irrelevant that they are family, just something that helps me think of new stories and to keep track I guess. It also allows me to populate many of those novels with fleshed out side characters even if the book itself only gets glimpses of them. They are real to me so it helps me write I guess.

[anastasia517]

Jul 20, 2016 20:00:06 GMT -5 imobviouslystaying said:

Jul 5, 2016 20:52:12 GMT -5 anastasia517 said:

imobviouslystaying Glad to see you found us! It's nice to see some CEP faces that I recognise. Good luck with your book! How much writing have you done in the past?

I have no idea how I missed this. I'm sorry!!

I've been writing off and on since I was about 15. I started with fanfic though. Some of my current stories have those roots but have evolved so far that I'm not sure anyone would recognize it unless I detailed it.

I have notebooks in storage, in the closet, etc with bits and pieces and family trees. I write romance, both contemporary and historical. Most of my contemporary characters are interrelated and I still have that original family tree somewhere. However, there are stand alone novels and independent series within that family. It's kind of irrelevant that they are family, just something that helps me think of new stories and to keep track I guess. It also allows me to populate many of those novels with fleshed out side characters even if the book itself only gets glimpses of them. They are real to me so it helps me write I guess.

I also started with fan fiction.  I found it much easier to write without worrying about world building at first.

Your current piece sounds really interesting.  I love when a world comes so clear because authors have fleshed out people so much, even when they are the background characters.  The way you describe them as being real to you hit home, since I have a story universe that is the same way to me.  Are you still thinking of self-publishing them?

[imobviouslystaying]

Jul 24, 2016 17:51:42 GMT -5 anastasia517 said:

I also started with fan fiction.  I found it much easier to write without worrying about world building at first.

Your current piece sounds really interesting.  I love when a world comes so clear because authors have fleshed out people so much, even when they are the background characters.  The way you describe them as being real to you hit home, since I have a story universe that is the same way to me.  Are you still thinking of self-publishing them?

Yup. I've been busy this month so hopefully next month.