Creator Journals 7/5/25
Last night was the 4th of July so I watched “Sinners”. It was really well written, direct and acted, but I wasn’t sure what it was trying to say.
I also drank way too much wine. Today I am suffering the consequences of that wine while I hide away in a little office and secretly tap away at my story. The words are coming out at a really good rate, but the story I’m telling is becoming bigger and more complex, and I’m worried that what I have now won’t really be finished this summer.
However, the important thing is that I’m having fun. Chapter 6 is really when this project is starting to feel like the book I had envisioned in my head. I’m really happy about it.
I’m also continuing to read Brandon Sanderson’s “Words of Radiance”. I’ve been a Brando Sando naysayer for a while, but this book is really good. I think I get it. The first book in the series felt kind of slow, and I thought the worldbuilding felt fairly contrived, but it’s all coming together really well in book two.
Uh . . . I don’t have much else to say. I looked inside my brain and there was nothing going on in there.
Happy Post-Independence Day! I hope you are still independent!
Today’s writing tip: Have your characters do or say something that feels out of character every now and then. Real people do it a lot.
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