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Today had been more than productive and I wasn't even expecting it to be.

Currently half way through my 3rd manuscript I needed to give my brain a little rest while I come up with some important plot specific dialogue that will set up the third act.

So after watching a short stories youtube video this morning I thought sure my not do a short story as a pallet cleanser.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the short story but it has a deep connection to a previous manuscript I wrote in my teenage years so the characters are dear to me and I want to find a way of incorporating them at some point into my current book series. I'll find a way, I always do.

I started at just after 9am this morning worked through with an hours lunch break until 5pm and have hit 10 pages with 8,800 words.

Brain melt so sleep now 😴

Glad that I did it though, it's been fun revisitng these characters and creating a bit more of their history.

Re-started my camcorder journey, I'm not sure if I'll document everything but I can't wait to get out there and ditch my camera phone for tape!

Any tips and advice are always welcome

Do you ever have one or several of those days where you know what you want to write and you spend several writing sessions going down new rabbit hole for a character just to take a step backwards and go fudge, this isn't working.

I think my issue is trying to shoe horn in a character that doesn't fit the narrative just yet. I feel that I've got two chapters that need to be placed into the Deleted Scenes folder even though aspects of the chapters work, I'm just not sure if it's too early in the novel or if it's the right novel entirely.

Anyways self-rant over,

But does anyone else have this issue from time to time?

To keep myself motivated I've decided to start making weekly round up posts for my writing. After the school hikidays when I have more time I will be youtube blogging these updates too.

Last week was the first full week of the school holidays for my kids and I knew straight away that I wouldn't be writing as much for obvious reasons.

Before the holidays started I managed to finish the second draft for book 2 but in order to give myself a break from thar project I decided to go full steam into book 3.

This week:

- Started draft 1, book 3

- drafted prologue to chapter 4

- 16k words written

- Eyed up a real human artist to replace the cover for book 1 (better start saving)

All in all it's been a good week and very surprised to how much I've managed to complete in such a short period of time.

Chris (Gates of Armantar)

Background: I'm a hobby writer with dyslexia and I have no idea if I will ever publish my work but I was considering uploading my first novel of my series to my website (neocities).

The potential idea is upload a chapter a month (or as frewquent as I can), do you think it would be worth it? And would you read a novel online for free, no pay walls to read a novel or parts of it at time when the author is ready?

Asking for a friend,

I am my only friend

I'm looking for youtube channels to where authors talk about their work. I'm not looking for how-to writers channels that tell you everything wrong with what you are doing because they are experts.

I'm looking for honest aspiring authors who make videos discussing what they are doing and what they plan on doing in the future.

I've dabbled in youtube over the years and my current channel focuses on making zines and my physical media. I'm tempted to add my writing journey to my channel even though I have no interest in getting my work published. But I'm not sure if it would be considered interesting content. What are your views?

A fun little poll, I'm curious to how long you spend writing, editing or general work on your novels or short stories.

For me, on a good week due to life circumstances I have the flexibility to put in 4-5 hours a day (mon-fri), at most a 25hr writing week if I'm having a good week and fewer commitments but realistically I'm looking at the 16-20 hours a week of dedicated time.

I do subscribe to the Stephen King way of writing that it is entirely possible to write a novel within 3 months when you can make time for it.

I would love to know your approach to setting aside time for your projects. I know I am probably in the minoroty of invested hours just because of my situation.

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As someone who repeatedly failed English in secondary school, writing has been and always will be a hobbiest passion regardless of my technical skill level.

It disheartened me today to realise that I made the mistake of capitalising the first word after dialog. Not just on my current project but also my first. As someone who wants to have a novel that both looks the part and reads the part. It's time to go back and correct two novels worth of mistakes even though I have no intentions of getting published or self publishing.

None the less, this is only a minor set back that will hopefully further strengthen my storytelling.

Mortal of my stroy, mistakes will be made and that's okay. I'm enjoying the journey through regardless of the terrain, potholes (not plotholes) are everywhere.

With the Uk school holidays quickly approaching I've given myself two weeks to finish the second draft of my second novel. Typically I spend 3-4 hours a day (mon-fri) on my written projects and so I'm hoping, without putting to much pressure on myself that this second draft, roughly half a books worth can have its second draft before all momentum is lost.

I found this at the start of the year when I was editing my first book that before xmas I was putting in 3-4 hours a day only to drop to doing next to nothing for two weeks. Having breaks are good and are much needed but lets just see if I can finish 14 chapters within the next 10 days. That's only 1.4 chapters a day... Wish me luck and I'll do an update in two weeks to see if I was talking out my ass or if I was actually able to get this finished.

In a future novel I'm thinking of having it musically centred, has anyone added music lyrics to your manuscript and how did you finding writting lyrics?

I have no music talent what so ever 😕 but music makes good feels

Just a genuine guy who like making zines, collecting physical media and doing little creative things.

This is very much a hobby, hope I see you around one day and I appreciate you 😊

Hey all, I made my first custom patch. This is for my "Achievement" vest and was professionally printed for me. This is a one of a kind, never to be replicated patch and I absolutely love it.

If you just want to skip to see what the patch looks like skip to around 10miutes or if your interested in how it came together feel free to watch it. I applicate you and look forwards to sharing more patches in the future.