📝 Blog Post: Updates On Writing Fiction

As you may have noticed, September was a productive writing month, while October seems not be; you would be mistaken, for I have taken upon the challenge to write my Sunflowers story more thoroughly than the previous. For the whole of October I’ve been brainstorming, writing draft after draft — currently on attempt number five which is the farthest I’ve come — , researching, discovering; above all, discovering. Each day I’ve been writing the equivalent of one thousand words or more. On good days, I can write up to as many as two thousand in an hour. Whether I will use them all in the final manuscript is another ordeal. Since I began the final draft about a week ago, I am currently at a bit over eight thousand words. In between I watch videos on writing, my feed now has an overwhelming amount of bad advice, which I guess is a side effect from how many Brandon Sanderson videos I am watching. Currently on lecture number 4.5. I watch them while working on my library books with a notebook…