"And When I Turned To Face Grief, I Saw That It Was Just Love In A Heavy Coat."

1.1.24 - writing progress & new year's resolutions

I've recently decided to try and write a little every day: so today I sat down and put on a timer (I use this one) but I changed the pomodoro settings to 10 minute work time and 1 minute break (with a 5 minute long break). I wrote 1,3k in a sitting! This is the most I've written in so long.

here are some writing things I want to try in the new year: - keeping a writing progress chart - doing ten minute writing sprints with 1 minute pauses - having conversations out loud on a voice memo and retyping it later on - writing scenes in the order I feel like writing them and reorganizing them later - having a journal of random scenes that I can put into stories (keeping track of my random prompts) - keeping a word count diary

on the other hand, here are my writing (related) resolutions! - post consistently on tumblr, both with journal (like this one) entries and prompts - to try and keep writing even if it's bad. you can be a bad author, or you can not be one at all (though frankly I don't *really* believe this. but it's a resolution, so I'll try) - engage my tumblr community! (would anyone be interested in sharing their own prompts in responses to asks?) - this is The Year (like last year and the one before). I'm going to Write A Book. - stay in love with writing. even if it means knowing when to stop, or trying to start again.

but cheers to everyone I've met in 2024, who have come, and cheers to those who have stayed. I wish you the best creative year yet. until tomorrow!

k.

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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. - Sir Thomas Moore

The sluttiest thing a hero can do is showing up at the villain's doorstep while they're hurt and saying, "I didn't know where else to go."

I really wish

that I was strong enough

to keep you at arm's length,

but every time we talk,

my elbows go weak.

- G.L. Angelone

My pen has fallen in love with you.

Letters, Franz Kafka

Unfortunately, people have a right to decline your love no matter how pure your intentions are. You are not what they want, and that's okay.

Red Letter No. 8 by Jen Mazza

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life, and start figuring out the one I have.”

— Holly Black

The Chapter Checklist

Here’s a checklist you can use against your chapters to make sure they’re hitting all fronts they should be!

This chapter checklist is a great way to avoid writing filler chapters in your novel, and to know that whatever you put in your book actually has a reason to be there.

My E-book: The Plotter’s Almanac, actually has all the theory you need on structuring a chapter, as well as a bunch of templates for outlines and chapter treatments!

You can grab it on its own as a set with my other 2 writer’s workbooks:

The Writer’s ToolBoox

Find it through [the link here] or below!

the-plottery.mykajabi.com

Writer's ToolBoox

The Writer's ToolBoox is a pack of 3 extensive E-books that cover the areas of: character craft, world building, and plotting. It comes with