Finishing up bits and pieces of my stories into novellas
Unpolished work, published live
Will not necessarily write every day, but will keep to a story arc
i.e. story will begin on the first of the month. By the 15th, the story will be halfway through, and the story will end on the last day of the month.
My goal is to spend one month pre-writing and gathering materials, i.e. graphics and design elements to complement the writing, and one month writing the story.
I will estimate my story's length at 16,000 words. That will be 4000 words per week, 1000 words in each writing session.
However I will not correspond by a word count requirement, but by a story arc requirement.
My goal is to keep up with the story arc timing. In my outlines I will set dates and events which will be written on those dates in greater detail.
I look out onto the yellow and brown vegetation beneath my window, at the castle-like buildings far away and wonder where do I lie in all of this? There was a time when I was unfettered. This was a time before I entered the working world, before I was independent. My heart was free as a bird when I was in college. I did not know what happiness I experienced in my creativity because I had never known different. In other aspects of my life I knew pain but my stories, sprung up lately from a gothic mist into an immersing Pre-Raphaelite painting, were a richness and the most beautiful thing I had ever known. That the most beautiful thing I knew to exist happened inside of me made me very happy, even though I didn't know it. Now I know the sun is setting, even though I can't see it, because the bank of brown, twisted trees and shrubs is lit gold, like a reflection from a golden chalice. Slowly, slowly it will fade until everything is a homogenous, uncertain gray. This is the nightma...