Braaaaaains

[sholio]

This weekend I decided to (experimentally) try writing in a new-to-me genre and wrote 8200 words today. I GUESS IT'S WORKING OUT THEN.

Not unrelatedly, you know that feeling when you exercise really hard and don't realize until you've stopped doing it that you've probably overdone it?

... my brain feels that way right now.

(For the record, I'm a binge writer, not a marathon writer. I cannot write every day. Bursts of frantic activity followed by mentally flatlining are my usual writing methodology. It's definitely not an improvement over slow and steady, but it's how my brain works and I've eventually figured out that things go best if I just roll with it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

New multifandom comment fest currently running: Multifandom kissathon!

I wrote an extremely tiny snippet of Iron Fist fic for this comment thread in my last post.

I don't know if I'll get around to reposting it over here, or transcribing it into a more accessible format, but I had to take the Magicians books back to the library today, and before I did, I scanned a few of the passages that had particularly charmed me and posted them on Tumblr. I did not expect to find these books so utterly charming, but I did.

Comments

[yalumesse]

lol, congrats on the word workout! I do know that feeling: it's exhausting but fantastic, and then you flail in despair for days or weeks fearing that Nothing Will Ever Be Written Again, until the next burst. Very inconvenient, brains.

[lunabee34]

Yay! That's awesome.

[oracne]

That is AWESOME.

[scioscribe]

YES to those 8200 words. I'm currently about a modest 2k into my own experiment. :D

[sholio]

OMG. I love that we're all just running with this! We might turn Zoe into a PNW writer yet. :D

(I will be stopping at this point because I literally have no idea where most of this is going and I should, uh, figure this out.)

[ellenmillion]

Yay! What genre, if I may pry?

I'm mostly a marathon writer... 1-2k a day gets it done. But I'm kind of failing at it this last week... argh.

[sholio]

Paranormal Women's Fiction! Join uuuuus ...

[ellenmillion]

*shakes my schedule at you and runs away*

(sooooo tempted!)

[schneefink]

*puts Magicians book higher up on reading list*

[kore]

OT but you remember that book re the Alaskan earthquake I told you about -- the guy wrote an editorial for the NYT about coronavirus, and it's really quite good. "When The World Falls Apart, People Come Together" (It's much more about the quake than the virus.)