https://escapewindow.com/tags/whiskey/ Recent content in whiskey on Escape(Window) Hugo -- gohugo.io en Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escapewindow.com/blog/2024-10-31-october-in-writing/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escapewindow.com/blog/2024-10-31-october-in-writing/ Ready or not There’s a lot more I want to do with pre-third-draft worldbuilding, outlining, and planning. But I’ve hit an enthusiasm gap – my productivity has fallen off drastically for a number of reasons, and I know I see a lot of this work as chores and housekeeping rather than creative work. I decided mid-month that I’m going to get back to editing and drafting come November, whether I’m fully ready or not. https://escapewindow.com/blog/2024-04-30-april-in-writing/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escapewindow.com/blog/2024-04-30-april-in-writing/ Still slowly but surely From April 23: Since then, I edited 7 scenes from the 2nd POV, bringing me to 37 scenes out of 98 completed for Draft 2.5. At this average rate, I’ll finish sometime in August. But if I keep up the scene per day from the past week, I may finish at the end of July. First person I also dabbled a bit with converting the 1st POV from third-person limited, past-tense into first person, past-tense. https://escapewindow.com/blog/2024-03-31-march-in-writing/ Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escapewindow.com/blog/2024-03-31-march-in-writing/ Slowly but surely I’m drafting again. Slower than I want to be, but I think the quality is higher. (Sometimes I’ve gone back to my first draft to rewrite a scene, and I’ve ended up throwing it out completely. Better to start from scratch on those than try to rescue any words.) The new structure seems to be working so far. The alarm bells that went off during the first draft, warning me that the story just isn’t working, have been relatively quiet. https://escapewindow.com/blog/2023-03-01-february-in-writing/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://escapewindow.com/blog/2023-03-01-february-in-writing/ I largely spent the first half of February continuing to garden my Obsidian project, and the second half delving into outlining books 1 and 2 of the trilogy. I’m readjusting my time estimates: ideally I finish the scene weave of all 3 books by the end of March or early April, and I can switch to drafting. Stats My Obsidian project now looks like: Manuscript markdown files: 11 Manuscript words: 5875 Total markdown files: 314 Total words: 103785 I wrote a python script that discards symbol-only words (like # or ## from markdown headers or - from markdown lists) from the wordcount.