Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
I had a week off! So I thought, what better way to use my time than to attempt to write (or, re-write) a book in a week?
The book in question is my Fantasy Hot Mess - a book that has lived in my head since I wrote the first draft 15 years ago, and one that I've been trying to re-create using The Anatomy of Story over the past three months. What prompted this challenge was skimming the most recent draft last week - I realised that the overall sequence of events in the second half seemed to work, and from 25-50% of the book had the right focus, even if it was a bit bloated, so maybe it wasn't as much of a mess as I thought?
Unfortunately, the writing wasn't as smooth as I hoped. I loved spending some time actively writing again, rather than outlining, revising or imagining, and I also had some great epiphanies. The downsides were that one of the epiphanies means I might need to throw out everything I wrote this week. 😅
The result was I got nearly 30,000 words into my next draft (so 30% of my goal), only to realise that I need to do some more planning to fix the mess.
QUESTIONS FOR YOU:
- It's 2021! What are your writing resolutions for the new year?
FIND ME ONLINE:
Instagram: instagram.com/jp.writes
Website: jpwrites.co
Nanowrimo: nanowrimo.org/participants/jpwrites
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I had a week off! So I thought, what better way to use my time than to attempt to write (or, re-write) a book in a week?
The book in question is my Fantasy Hot Mess - a book that has lived in my head since I wrote the first draft 15 years ago, and one that I've been trying to re-create using The Anatomy of Story over the past three months. What prompted this challenge was skimming the most recent draft last week - I realised that the overall sequence of events in the second half seemed to work, and from 25-50% of the book had the right focus, even if it was a bit bloated, so maybe it wasn't as much of a mess as I thought?
Unfortunately, the writing wasn't as smooth as I hoped. I loved spending some time actively writing again, rather than outlining, revising or imagining, and I also had some great epiphanies. The downsides were that one of the epiphanies means I might need to throw out everything I wrote this week. 😅
The result was I got nearly 30,000 words into my next draft (so 30% of my goal), only to realise that I need to do some more planning to fix the mess.
QUESTIONS FOR YOU:
- It's 2021! What are your writing resolutions for the new year?
FIND ME ONLINE:
Instagram: instagram.com/jp.writes
Website: jpwrites.co
Nanowrimo: nanowrimo.org/participants/jpwrites
#writingvlog #writing #authortube
