@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialDay 137-141, Oct. 3-7: I was almost finished with this Judy chapter when I realized it was almost all Judy thinking about things that DID happen, most of them really interesting but with zero tension because the reader knows they're in the
@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialDay 136, Oct. 2: One of the oddities of writing a novel is the lack of finished goals. Yes, I can finish a chapter, and that does feel great, but short stories are such a small package that you can write one in a month or two, send it off, and it could be
@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialDay 127 - 135, Sept. 24-Oct. 1: I was reading a book on the subway yesterday and felt, for the 8,000th time, awed by the privilege of wandering around someone else's imagination. The author wanted me to explore the cliffs by the ocean, feeling the wind
@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialDay 126, Sept. 23: I finished another chapter! It's one I've been thinking about writing for about a year, so a lot of it was just typing words already in my head, but I'm really pleased. Another 60 minutes of writing yesterday and 30 today already. For
@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialDay 125, Sept. 22: I'm over 35k! I've finished the replacement podcast episode and it's a good feeling, knowing a throw-away chapter is now an important chapter with depth.
Plans for Day 126: Begin next Dawn chapter. Find ways to be joyful.
What's all
@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialDay 114-124, Sept. 21: I have written for 30 minutes! *laughing*
In my defense, I got VERY excited about switching my Linux*** distro and that genuinely ate a week. But I have everything working like aces now and wrote 20 minutes yesterday and 10 minutes
@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialSushi Rejection Project Update! I'm at 34 / 100, which is 1 away from my all-time record of 35. Maybe THIS is the time I get sushi?
I did get a personal rejection from a wildly fancy place, and that's always a huge confidence boost, especially since so
@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialDay 112, Sept. 10: I finished the memoir excerpt chapter! As I've said before, I struggle to make my characters unhappy. In this chapter I went from my usual 2 to a horror-filled 10 and to my great surprise it was WAY EASIER to write. Brains are weird.
What's
@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialDay 111, Sept. 9: I decided today to write AS IF everything is going to work out. AS IF I'm going to finish, send out queries, find an agent. AS IF I'm going to get this book published, AS IF 6,000 people are going to buy it.
I've spent a lot of my life
@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialWhat's Baba Yaga doing in Toronto? Check out this improvised folktale, a story I told on stage that's shaped by audience contributions:
#Storytelling #StorytellingToronto #TorontoWriters #BabaYaga
@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialDay 110, Sept. 8: Today I went through and made all the edits I noted when I sat down with the printed copy of my novel so far. It was really helpful to see the entire story again. Because the chapters are different points of view, some hermit crab, some
@sagetyrtle.bsky.socialDay 103-109, Sept. 2-7: My partner @gooutsidetoday.com said, "If you got the opportunity starting today to do anything you wanted, and you could go back in time and fix it if it went badly, what would you do?" and I said "WRITE MY NOVEL INSTEAD OF INTENDING