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I don't like resolutions but I like goals, so I'm going to make a short list of my writing goals for 2025 (I'll be making a similar list for art on my other blog)

Write more in general

Try writing more short stories

Finish a draft of one novel WIPs, doesn't matter which one

Read more, without taking over a month to finish a book because I get distracted and forget about it

Read more poetry

Write more poetry, maybe a poem a a week

Try to find active writing servers and actually be active in them

Tied into the last one, make writing friends. Actual friends that I can talk to, not just another mutual

That's all I can think of for now! If I think of more by New Year's, I'll add to it.

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✨I broke 5k words!✨

I ended up deleting what wasn't working and switched the pov to one of my other protags and it works much better. It was also much more fun to write, which tells me I made the right choice.

And! I actually wrote earlier in the afternoon for once, proving to myself that I can write during daylight hours. But I wrote the bigger chunk of today's word count after midnight, so I think night writing is still more productive for me.

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Feeling stuck so I think that means I need to delete about 1000 words or so and go in a different direction because what I had planned isn’t working and wasn’t thought out well enough 😔

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The keyboard is a refurbished Logitech Folio Touch, I didn't get one of those crazy expensive magic keyboards or whatever. I think these are super expensive new too, but refurbished was under $50.

It feels nice and solid compared to the Surface keyboard folio I had like six years ago. That thing felt like I could tear it like paper if I tried hard enough. And it feels nice to type on, I just need to get used to the tiny backspace and enter keys.

I'm broke now, so I have to use a free word processor, but at some point I plan to get Scrivener on my iPad since it's been my go-to for fiction writing for over ten years now. I've had it on a Macbook (now permanently dead, rip) and my Windows laptop, I plan to stick with it on my iPad when I can. But I'll probably just use Obsidian for now.

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Passport and iPad keyboard both came in today! So now I can start to plan my trip properly, and I'll be able to write on the plane when I go 🖤

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WIP Whatever Tuesday

stealing the open tag from @winterandwords (you can find their excerpt here!)

rules: Share some recent lines from your WIP on whatever day

currently writing chapter eight of BIRCHLORN, and the plot is plottening ^^ here's an excerpt:

There's a woman at the counter, writing something in a book—a ledger or a recordbook, if Bai Hua had to guess—, and when Bai Hua enters, she looks up. She looks youthful, but Bai Hua is fairly certain that she's at least middle-aged. There's something familiar about her that Bai Hua can't quite place—around her eyes and nose. It's probably one of the dozens of professors she's had—more than once, she's caught some familiar features in strangers while here; never enough to make it uncanny, but just enough to make her pause.

tagging: @finchmomentwrites @skelliewrites @coarsely and open tag for anyone else who sees this!

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Hit my very small word goal for the day after forgetting to write for a little over a week. I'm now up to 4,720 words and an unexpected subplot has revealed itself. I can't say I'm upset about it, but now I have to figure out what to do about it

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Also does anyone know of any good and active writing discord servers? Preferably 18+ or 21+? And with a focus on original (not fanfic) writing?

I've only just started using discord for 'professional' things and I've made a second account to keep it separate from my personal life stuff. I use my professional account on desktop only, so I won't be a frequent poster in any server, but it would be nice to be able to hang out in one when I want to feel like I'm writing among other writers and maybe make some like-minded writer friends.

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So I signed up on the Starting Off Write site and joined the discord. I didn't do Nano this year because. Well. It's gone to shit. This looks like it could be a good alternative. I'm thinking about participating in this a much as I can, but I have plans that will hopefully work out for January that involve traveling abroad (as long as everything goes smoothly with my passport application). I'll be going to visit my long distance girlfriend and also do some tourist stuff, so I won't have a lot of time to write, but I can at least write on the plane? 😅 Which I was planning to do anyway, but now it'll just be part of this event.

(If you're interested in the discord, please note that it's 18+. You can find the invite on their site that I've linked)

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I really should work on my handwriting though. I love writing with fountain pen, and wish I could handwrite my first drafts. I handwrite notes sometimes but like I said, they're a nightmare to decipher when I type them up later.

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I have a keyboard for my iPad coming in soon (not from Apple, I'm not rich lol, it's third party), which means I'll hopefully be writing more once it's here.

I really hate having to lug out my inconveniently large laptop when I want to write, especially if I feel like writing somewhere outside of my house. The ability to easily write anywhere will definitely increase my motivation

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Some observation I made.

Obligatory disclaimer that not all artists are like that, and it's fair to be upset about reposts.

There are just things about contemporary online art culture that make the average viewer not entirely comfortable engaging.

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Oh tumblr is attempting the communities thing again? I'm good.

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I think maybe in the next few days I'll make a proper writeblr reintro post. I can't remember if I made one since nuking all the old posts here. Though with such a dwindling writing community here, I don't know if posts like that even really matter anymore 😞

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Technically I've written around 1400 words today, but all of it was worldbuilding notes, not actual drafting 😅

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"just gonna flesh out the protag's mom's backstory a little bit to get to know her"

ten minutes later: *traces character's ancestry back 100 years prior to the start of the novel*