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anthimeriaI've been circling around a short story for about a month now, originally a creepy steampunk story, that just wasn't working. I pulled teeth to get the first few hundred words out and wasn't happy with it.
But yesterday I hit on the idea to change the genre to sci-fi, rework about half the plot, and then when I did this my main character informed me that she had an entirely different background and no, that's not her name, either.
So after retooling all of that, I managed to sit down and spit out ~500 words yesterday, which makes me VERY happy. 500 words isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things, especially as a novelist, but they're 500 good words, and 500 words of enjoyable writing, which is an experience I haven't had in a while outside of worldbuilding. 500 words of story!
I'll likely be distracted by that for the next little while, but will definitely wander back to the steampunk YA book soonish.
But yesterday I hit on the idea to change the genre to sci-fi, rework about half the plot, and then when I did this my main character informed me that she had an entirely different background and no, that's not her name, either.
So after retooling all of that, I managed to sit down and spit out ~500 words yesterday, which makes me VERY happy. 500 words isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things, especially as a novelist, but they're 500 good words, and 500 words of enjoyable writing, which is an experience I haven't had in a while outside of worldbuilding. 500 words of story!
I'll likely be distracted by that for the next little while, but will definitely wander back to the steampunk YA book soonish.