Amnar 52 Weeks of Editing: Week 8—An Unexpected Direction: Exploring the Roots of Writer's Block My titles get longer every week. Expect by the end of the year the titles to be the whole entry. I wasn't expecting to end up here. I've been putting off writing this for a while, trying to come up with any excuse to avoid it.
Amnar 52 Weeks of Editing: Week 7—What I'm Talking About When I Talk About Writer's Block Last week, one of my favourite blogs dropped this article into my inbox. At the time, I was having A Week Of It, so I didn't have time to read it immediately, but the title really caught my eye. An Anxiety Episode Changed My (Dis)Belief In Writer’
Amnar 52 Weeks of Editing: Week 6—Finding Out How to Use Plottr and World Anvil's Timelines and Chronicles Together I'm writing this while being interrupted at regular intervals by the workers replacing our roof. It's been a week. A real week. I've had teaching, a sudden avalanche of marking, partner-job-drama, cat drama... You name it, it happened this week. As a result, it&
Amnar 52 Weeks of Editing: Week 5—Editing Through The Overwhelm or When In Doubt, Research! Oh god, oh god, oh god. What a week. Actually no, what a day. This is not good, not good at all. I knew this week would be a weird one when I was told, very late last week, that I'd start teaching again this week. Allow me
52 Weeks of Editing 52 Weeks of Editing: Week 4—Editing A Novel vs. Executive Dysfunction (A Story About Neurodivergence and Chronic Illness) I don't know how to start this. This tab has been open on my browser for days. Originally, this week was going to be about characterisation. I'd had some ideas about Io and thought I should write about that. But I hit a wall. I shifted
52 Weeks of Editing 52 Weeks of Editing: Week 3—Working With A Broken Plot (Part One) Plot. Here we go. It's the aspect of novel-writing I have the most books on. I'm not even going to go into all the deep theory of plot development, at least not at this point. This is a personal blog about trying to rescue a book
52 Weeks of Editing 52 Weeks of Editing: Week 2—Is There Anything Good To Work With Here? OK. You know there's a piece of advice floating about the writing world about editing? The one that says you should put your manuscript in a drawer once you finish it, leave it for a month, then come back and start editing? Well, I did that for 19
Amnar 52 Weeks of Editing: Week 1—A Year of Editing A 19 Year Old First Draft Oh boy, Friday. It's the first week of a new year and that means pretty much everyone is pushing the New Year New You thing in various forms. Meanwhile, I'm actually recovering from the end of something. I submitted my corrected PhD thesis on 23rd December,
Amnar Featured Digging Myself Out of the Past: 1. If You Can't Do "What If" I'm so tempted to write "Try this!" to really make the title as clickbaity as possible. But I hate doing that. It leaves an itch under my skin I can't scratch. Since the winter of 2006, I've struggled to write. I'
Amnar Featured Why I'm Retconning Amnar Ten Years After The Execution It's Friday. It's the end of the week, and I'm finally getting back on schedule after last weekend's cold/migraine horror. I've been planning this post for ages, and I've been terrified of writing it because it means
Amnar Migraine Stops Play OK, it's been a minute. This is why it's so challenging to keep up a regular schedule when you're disabled and have a lot of comorbidities. I shifted my planned publication schedule to Friday, the day I often spend on things that aren'
Amnar Diary 3: How changing the protagonist changed everything This is going to be a one-shot, seat-of-the-pants type affair, about how I'm not pantsing any more and totally being sensible about writing blog posts with style, sagacity and all that jazz... Climate Anxiety We've had another heatwave here, and it made it pretty much impossible
Diary Diary: 1. A Plan For August This is the first time in... um, I think ever, that I've tried starting the month like this. Most of my life has been spent struggling over metaphorical mountains, setting ludicrous goals, then making a mess of the whole thing by the end. For example: see the whole
World Anvil Summer Camp World Anvil Changelog Week 9: Summer Camp Special 31 posts in 31 days over on World Anvil. Goal... Achieved! When I first posted that I wanted to do the Summer Camp, I set myself a tough challenge. I had no idea exactly how tough, though, because I wasn't expecting July to turn out the way it