Click clack
Jul. 3rd, 2022 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threading_in_dreamsUpdating wordcounts on Of masks and dances:
Writing is hard, yes, but mostly because it's like solving a puzzle.
I love puzzles, my second favorite type of game, so it's no wonder I love writing. That feeling when you finally (finally!) get the right shaped words into the right shaped place of the story and suddenly the plot makes sense and you know what you're doing? That is as good as solving levels in The Talos Project, a high as soaring as completing a whole crossword puzzle in a minute and a half.
So, what I mean is, the words started to click together yesterday.
Joy, oh joy!
Now, let's finish this thing.
- Chapter 19 is now at over 13k, but I'll be chopping some off as an extra. I think.
- Chapter 20 is kept at 3.5k because I'm not really working on it right now.
Writing is hard, yes, but mostly because it's like solving a puzzle.
I love puzzles, my second favorite type of game, so it's no wonder I love writing. That feeling when you finally (finally!) get the right shaped words into the right shaped place of the story and suddenly the plot makes sense and you know what you're doing? That is as good as solving levels in The Talos Project, a high as soaring as completing a whole crossword puzzle in a minute and a half.
So, what I mean is, the words started to click together yesterday.
Joy, oh joy!
Now, let's finish this thing.
