Mid-term and science interns · 11:05pm Feb 15th, 2015
It's been a while since my last post so I thought I'd do a little update.
Chapter 4 is slow but steady since I have less free time than I figured (universities love setting you work during mid-semester). I've abandoned my old routine of 'write as fast as possible, then review it a load of times'. Instead I'm writing and rewriting as I go. This means fewer words per day, but less time spent on subsequent drafts. I'll roll with this schedule and see how it works. If it doesn't, then it's back to 2,000 a day.
Looking to the future, I have no idea when this will conclude. Sometimes I have unexpected and un-reproducible bouts of speed when writing and I'll get 3,000 done in a day, others I'm struggling to get past 500. So, it's hard to forecast how soon Grey Arbiter will be done.
Looking even further, I had a neat idea following a lab accident a couple of mornings ago. I thought what if Twilight's counterpart, Scitwi, hired a lab technician? I could go down the route of cute-but-mad scientist and the only lab assistant that could stand her company and long hours. Kinda like Igor and Frankenstein. I stopped thinking about it soon afterwards because, I feel, at least, that it's too easy to get bored with a current story. You come up with a fresh new one, and before you know it the old one never gets finished. It's tempting to write out the first 1,000 of a new story idea to see how it looks, but then you want to write the next 1,000 and so on.
For me, that's the kiss of death. If you see me try to do that, you have permission to take my laptop and throw it in a skip.
Stay gold.
Write what interests you is the general comment writers make. Else you may get to a point in a story where you stall out because you hit writer's block. I enjoy your writing style so if it was a choice between waiting for you to finish a story and no updates for long periods, or you starting something new to get yourself out of a rut, I'd go with the latter.