March Leaves Like A Lamb

I'll begin by apologizing for the short and bland posts preceding, and including, this one. I have been occupied with, among other things, writing the rough draft for A Reckoning of Dragons. I have not given this blog the attention it needs at this stage. In the coming month, I plan to be more active and post more interesting content. As I start sending in my writing to my colleague, I will be posting more worldbuilding and writing content, some of which will relate to Horizön, some of which may be tangents into other ideas or settings, just for fun.

Next week, I will be posting a new short story. The Road of Iron follows two dwarven brothers who seek to prove themselves against the humans in a story that predates the settling of Horizön. Look forward to that next week.

Uninfected Post

Nothing to see here. Just hiding out and avoiding the plague. Not in a blogging mood today. I really need to think of things to post further ahead in advance.

Coughing Up Words

Started getting some more writing in. Still bouncing between scenes. There's this strange revulsion I feel towards starting that always seems to be the biggest obstacle. Even though I'm passionate about stories, my brain registers the act of writing as 'work'. Right now it's just a matter of building up work ethic and turning off the filter for the rough draft. It's complicated, but with some better scheduling I feel it will be possible. 20 days remain. Rough draft or bust.

Side note: my 23rd birthday's coming up on the 17th of March. That's right, I was born on St Patrick's Day. It seems especially bizarre since I do not drink any form of alcohol - apparently Ernest Hemingway and Stephen King had a bad time with that kind of thing, and I figure I should learn from such mistakes. Still, I guess the whole world drinks to my birthday every year, so I got that going for me, which is nice.

Technical Difficulties

Words only come out at a scraping pace lately. Getting bored of my cast; trying to make them more interesting out the gate. Trying to balance between revealing enough to be engaging while also hiding enough to be intriguing. Some writers talk about this idea as 'skirt length' writing; your descriptions need to be long enough to cover all the information they need to cover, but short enough to keep the reader's attention. I guess I'm trying to create skirt-length characters.

On a less writerly note, I've been told that the comments on my blog haven't been working for recent posts. I am new to Blogger, so I do not know what could be causing this, but I will be working to troubleshoot this over the following week. In the meanwhile, I will leave a post in the comments that can be replied to. This might address the issue, or it might not. An effort was made, and sometimes that's all you can do. Just like today's post; an effort, but not much else.