Definitely i love my characters and they are getting very nice. Just need to improve my english but i think the story itself helps to make it interesting so far. Yes i am putting all my heart and soul in this series and the next one. It is wonderful do something that you like to do a lot. Like this.
7:03AM
I have 5 projects I'm working on and it kills me to have to put a hold on my original two that I wanted to make. Granted, I don't have to put 'em on hold, but I wanna keep a consistent focus on my smaller ones for a while. My main zombie novel has kinda.. burnt me out a bit? The nature of the first few chapters is very bleak and dreary as it focuses on the solitude that my main character faces in there. I'm composing music for it as well, and the music easily reflects that same atmosphere, so it's a little expected that I'd be kinda tired of working on it.
So, I resorted to working on these other ideas. A one-shot drama about the devil's relationship with an angel, and the implications of such for both of them, and God's opinion of all of it, set in late Victorian era London. And another one-shot shounen (though I've been thinking, it might actually be closer to seinen) about two siblings hunting down a demon as they're looking for a missing person in modern-day Japan. Both of these are sorta what I need to keep myself in a creative headspace, so I'm happy about that. Not sure if I wanna compose music for these as well, but I wouldn't mind doing so~
All in all, I'm happy where I'm at. It might be exhausting at times, but.. as long as I get a good story out of it, right?
6:28 PM
Avoiding writing the next chapter of Twisted Tales. The d*mn story is technically finished, but chapters 1 through... like, 39 need such heavy editing that I'm essentially rewriting every single one (cutting most entirely, thank god).
For some reason, this editing process is killing me. I keep feeling like "I already wrote all this, can't I be done already???"
Instead, I've been starting oh, three new projects instead. Wait, four. I don't have enough time in the day to devote to one, but here I am. I desperately want one of them to be a comic/graphic novel, but I tried my hand at it and failed miserably, and I don't have enough income right now to offer to pay someone else to draw it for me. I'm still going to write it as a novel, but I just know in my gut that it ought to be a comic. Ah well.
I'm specifically here because I'm procrastinating writing the chapter that was due today. Where the heck did the week go? Alright, alright. I'm gone. I'll go do it.
@JBrentonParker Hahaha. I totally get you. If writing's the slow death, then editing's absolutely the final blow! Maybe at some point you'll be able to turn your novel into a comic. Don't give up and work hard.
I've entered the writer's camp, but am stuck on a dialogue scene (･ัω･ั)
Jiki's personality is hopeless yet errr... carefree, so I'm hoping this can go smoothly. I don't have much time left, but I don't want to rush things bc of the deadline either urg
Spicy's in Writer's Camp. 
I can't wait to read. (But good luck! You've a couple of months. Do your best~)
9:07PM
Taking a break from writing the current page of my demon hunter one-shot. I gotta say the progress for this is coming along a bit faster than I thought it would tbh I'm not sure if it's the nature of the story that's helping, or if it's the chillstep compilation (a link to it if y'all wanna give it a listen too1) I'm listening to on loop while writing that's helping me be creative.
Uhhh, I'm doing a lot of research on how police handle things and while .. it hardly matters for a fictional type of police force I'm going with, I shouldn't be too worried. But I want it to be as real as I can make it, making it believable enough yet not overbearing on such details, all that. I wanna get through the case briefing and the interviewing quick so I can get to the action! I'm hoping I can make the characters likable and relatable enough before stuff goes wrong in the story..
"Writing is a slow death, and editing is the final blow."
Man, you should put that on a shirt and sell it!
Or on a bookmark, I guess, for writers.
And we'll see, haha. Maybe someday! I suppose it could happen!
12:43 —
I'm resisting every temptation to up LiqCour's update speed so you guys can be where I am. I've one more day of work before I can sit down and crunch out the rest of the next episode.
I've also been thinking a lot about this 2019 story that I'm spinning around in my head (I'll note it as GP henceforth). I tried writing it before, but I was spinning my wheels and getting frustrated it. Writing an outline to try and get my thoughts in order wasn't helping either. I was writing, what I refer to as, "key scenes" instead of an actual outline. So I have that sitting off to the side, and I'm using that as a reference point.
One way I've managed to counter act this frustration is to just pick up random prompts and quotes and just start writing things based off that. Straight from the head and no editing. I've even been dipping into my old oneshot theme challenge1 thread to help with the blog. Right now, 90% of these exercises have been done in my head, but when I actually set to writing, I forego my usual standard.
I've been using Q10 and Cold Turkey for free writing, so I've found that I'm able to focus. Plus, I have JotterPad on my phone, and that's also just a nice little pocket writing dimension I carry with me. I like Q10 because it has the typewriter sounds that I miss so much. I put on some metal, big band & swing, or some other tunes, and just lose myself.
Between LiqCour and GP (and another secret project), I've been keeping myself sufficiently busy. I'm still struggling to write horror, but I've been dipping into the tag here on Tapas as well as studying some horror media on YouTube (please ask me my current fixations). Who knows, maybe I'll revive The Book Club1 to tell you all some of my favourite Tapas creations.
Alright; I must away to work. Talk to you all soon.
As of now i decided to give to my readers a glimpse of the huge RPG universe that I created long ago. So i ll start adding short stories set in the Crystal Age. It is a nice way to show a bit of those things. And to prepare myself to write about the main universe in the future. About Grotheske i couldn't be more happy with my last episode and i must say it was one that i fought to find the right words because i was presenting to the reader my self confident, provocative and playfull main character. I got so happy that i made a pool asking with side of my succubus is more loved. As I am already writing episode 9 and preparing a big surprise for the fans when episode 10 gets published.
Currently midnight here. I'm starting work soon on Chapter 16 and while I have it in my head, sometimes it just takes some time staring at the computer screen before everything clicks. I wanted to say to everybody to keep up the awesome work! You rock, you're beautiful, you're the best!
-9:34-
Last night I posted the final episode of the first arc of my tapas novel. Responses have been far better than I ever expected, and I'm so happy that people are enjoying reading my work. Now I'm nervous about consistency. I'm terrified that I'll let the quality fall off as I go on, and that people will lose interest. I'm used to keeping my writing between myself, my friends, beta readers, and potential agents, so having a following (small as it is) is completely new to me. I want to hold myself to a high enough standard so that my readers and I are satisfied.
I also stupidly decided to take the novel I am attempting to publish through yet another partial rewrite (draft five, here we come). It's very exciting and a lot of fun to do, but wow is it exhausting. I've worked with the characters there for so long and they're incredibly dear to me, so it feels incredibly important to make everything absolutely perfect at all times.
TL;DR: Perfectionist struggles with fears of losing consistency.
8:15am
Rewriting an entire page I just wrote. I essentially ran into this issue of introducing a superpower. I wanted explain the rules and how came to be, but the entire page became a flashback filled with exposition. I tried justifying it by acting like it was a good temporary separation of the story to explain everything about said power.. but my overthinking kicked in. "Why are we here now?" "What a letdown from where we left off" "You're over-explaining it" "I'm just gonna skip this one" and uhhh, I thought about it as a reader for a bit and agreed with all these sentiments.
So, I'm rewriting it by getting immediately back in the action, while relaying the explanation in does through memory. Not through flashbacks of the events (and rather mundane ones, at that), but through quotes going through my character's head in the moment. I'm finding myself enjoying this rewrite a lot more than the original page~ 
9:20AM
Working on episodes For What Lies Within and For the Light. Trying to not an idea for a short story not distract me from what I'm doing 
11:29 am working on another short story that popped into my head, and not the one that I thought I was going to work on today. damn it's dark. Definitely one for the horror collection.
Good to see everyone being active! Do your bests, yeah?
8:12 —
My brain feels like it's melting. As soon as I sat down, my head has been all over the place. But! I've been cleaning up a manuscript that I'm working on. Also, the next major step LiqCour is being balanced out. If it doesn't go up this month, it will absolutely go up near the beginning of the year!
I've been planning some short stories, but I can't figure out the titles for three of them. Usually, I can start writing and then come up with the title later. But since this isn't an urgent project, I want the title to be already picked out, so I can properly have the mood already set at its most basic level.
10:42 pm
just finished a word sprint for 24 min. Got 325 words. Doing another in a few.
Edit: reached 299. May do another, but I'm hungry lol
822pm
Coffee with marshmallows because I'm a classy sophisticate.
Need to write an episode where a deeply mentally troubled person will have a conversation with the person (our hero) that she's been hunting. Not sure what direction I want this character to go as far as her role in the plot going forward. Hope I convey the right amount of disturbed mind that I imagine she has.
