Sit Down and Write Write-a-thon: Wrap up

Wrap Up Post

Goal: 20,000 words

Written: 11,925 words 

Acks, I only wrote slightly more than half of my goal! Goodness me... However, I felt I accomplished a lot. As I've mentioned in my earlier post, the nature of my work has kept me busy and drained. The most I can write after work is about 300-500 words but this week alone, I manage to write 11,925 words! I'm currently 26,191/50,000 words into my manuscript and YESSS I've finally manage to pass the halfway mark (even though it is already the third week...). Looking forward to the next weekend to write 10k+ words!

To fellow writers who are participating in the Camp Nanowrimo, Happy Writing! You have about a week left! 

Sit Down and Write Write-a-thon: Day 2

I managed to write only 340 words today as I was out for the whole day due to work. Acks. I have to make it up over the next few days. Which means to say that I'm still lagging behind by 17k words. 3400 words per day, here I come!

To fellow writers who are participating in the write-a-thon, Happy Writing! 

Sit Down and Write Write-a-thon: Goals

The Write-a-thon has started! I'm actually lagging behind in my writing for August's Camp Nanowrimo. My goal for this write-a-thon is to write at least 20k words over the period of the 7 days write-a-thon. That makes it about 3k words per day. Let's see how many words I wrote today: 2896. Close enough. :D

To fellow writers who are participating in the write-a-thon, Happy Writing! 

Sit Down and Write Write-a-Thon

I'm participating in the August Camp NaNoWriMo. That's the second time I'm joining the writing month (and I haven't finished writing for my June's camp...) So, I'm starting a new story but it's a fan fiction for now. I have not planned anything for this story and I'm going to just write whatever that comes into my mind. I tend to get disheartened by outlines for some reason. Turns out that progress is a little faster than writing with an outline! So I guess I'm heading in the right direction.

By the way, you don't have to be writing a story to join this write-a-thon! You can also write book reviews or even thesis! Just write anything!

Starting and end times are the usual:  Monday (8/20) 12:01am CST until Sunday (8/26) 11:59pm CST. 

Have fun writing!

The Writer In You Blog Hop (6)

The Writer in You Blog Hop is hosted by The Fiction Diaries.
There'll be a question relating to "writing" each Saturday.
This week's question is:

Q: Have you ever had a character you intended to kill refuse to be killed?

My answer is: Not yet! I have not written any character that is meant to be killed in my story so they haven't reach the "refused to be killed" stage. Perhaps I'll have one in the future if I consider writing a darker story. Interesting thought! At the moment, I have my hands full of landing my characters in hospitals with injuries but no, I have no intention to kill them!

Hope you've had a great week ahead!

The Writer in You Blog Hop (5)

The Writer in You Blog Hop is hosted by The Fiction Diaries.
There'll be a question relating to "writing" each Saturday.
This week's question is:

Q: When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Did you share it with people or keep it to yourself?

I've been an avid reader since I was a toddler, starting with picture books then going on to children's books and then to novels. I never thought about writing until I was around 12 years old and was so heavily in love with the Japanese anime/manga Cardcaptor Sakura that I actually started writing fan fiction whenever I have any free time in class. It is really interesting to play with my favourite characters in my mind and put them in my stories. I published them on FanFiction.Net under then pen name sakuraakamichelle. None of my friends knew I wrote those stories and they were pretty surprised when I told them years later. Many still remain in the dark. I went into a writing slump when I was around 15 years old and I stopped writing altogether to focus on my studies. Getting good grades are very important here after all. However, the thought of being a writer never got stuck in my head until early this year when I started reading YA. That is when I know I want to write something--my own story with my own characters. Lovely. Instead of keeping it a total secret, I shared my being a writer to some of my close friends and my family. To my surprise, they are very supportive! But then, it isn't considered a "real job" so I still have to hunt for a "real" one. Some of my friends often ask me if I have had any interviews lately, which is kind of demoralizing. I definitely prefer writing! Can I consider writing as my permanent job, please?

Hope you've had a great weekend!

The Writer In You Blog Hop (4)

The Writer in You Blog Hop is hosted by The Fiction Diaries.
There'll be a question relating to "writing" each Saturday.
This week's question is:

Q: Do you outline your writing

It depends on what I'm writing. When writing fan fictions, I'm a panster. I never plan ahead for fan fictions and I'll just post chapters by chapters online after I've finished them. I imagine the scenes in my head like a movie beforehand and just write them out like that. For my current works, I'm actually learning how to outline the whole book and filling out the scenes. It's all pointers and nothing elaborate. I don't wish to take the fun out of writing by planning so in depth. It's tough to make the transition and I had to redo my outline a few times. It is time-consuming, at least for me. Sometimes, I was so tempted to switch back to being a panster again. So... Yeah, I do outline my writing but only to a certain extent.

Hope you've had a great weekend!