There are two important reasons why this is not a “romance” or “romantasy” novel and one of them is that the main plot isn’t about the romance, it’s about the main character rescuing her twink brother from his evil boyfriend, and the other is that everyone is absolutely miserable at the end.

Yes, it’s planned out as a trilogy. Does that mean that it takes until the end of the third book to get to the Happily Ever After? No, of course not, you absolute fool.

(The romance is just the raven-man psychopomp she tragically falls for on the way.)

Doing my best to fight the urge to just make a new playlist for this novel instead of working on it. That Transformers fic I was getting back into is currently all of 3 chapters and about 3 hours of playlist.

(The new playlist would be entirely Hozier.)

(Actually it would just be this song, which came out over a decade after I started working on it, on repeat:)

When I try editing or even rereading my own fiction writing, I run into a problem where I'm not so much reading the words as I am letting the words trigger the memory of the story as it existed in my head. Also because of this I tend to speed-read because I know what's going on, I know what happens, I'm just trying to savor the meaty bits, but that makes it very hard for me to tell if something is paced well or not.

I'm going to work on that as I go back over this novel one more time. I'm tempted to compile it into an epub or PDF to see if that helps, but if I don't at least let myself do line-edits I'll go mad.

Maybe sometime soon I'll toss the first chapter out here in case anybody wants to see what I'm on about.

#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy

@trixter I'd be so hyper critical and over analyze every word I wrote .. I'd get nowhere lol

@dawgeth Part of why I had to step away for a while was because I ended up doing a lot of freelance editing work (mostly for a small gay romance publisher), so I got a bad case of Editor Brain.

@trixter Sounds like books my oldest daughter would enjoy lol

Gay romance with a stars hollow vibe? She devooouuuurs them.

When I try editing or even rereading my own fiction writing, I run into a problem where I'm not so much reading the words as I am letting the words trigger the memory of the story as it existed in my head. Also because of this I tend to speed-read because I know what's going on, I know what happens, I'm just trying to savor the meaty bits, but that makes it very hard for me to tell if something is paced well or not.

I'm going to work on that as I go back over this novel one more time. I'm tempted to compile it into an epub or PDF to see if that helps, but if I don't at least let myself do line-edits I'll go mad.

Maybe sometime soon I'll toss the first chapter out here in case anybody wants to see what I'm on about.

#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy

@trixter someone said to change the font noticeably for your own re-read, plus the layout if you can ofc

@lanodan @trixter I just cannot do audiobooks. At all. The constant text input on the audio channel makes me aggressive and explode within minutes. (I tried.)

@trixter someone said to change the font noticeably for your own re-read, plus the layout if you can ofc

When I try editing or even rereading my own fiction writing, I run into a problem where I'm not so much reading the words as I am letting the words trigger the memory of the story as it existed in my head. Also because of this I tend to speed-read because I know what's going on, I know what happens, I'm just trying to savor the meaty bits, but that makes it very hard for me to tell if something is paced well or not.

I'm going to work on that as I go back over this novel one more time. I'm tempted to compile it into an epub or PDF to see if that helps, but if I don't at least let myself do line-edits I'll go mad.

Maybe sometime soon I'll toss the first chapter out here in case anybody wants to see what I'm on about.

#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy

@mirabilos My immediate thought is to go sans serif but I dunno if I can take dark fantasy seriously without a serif font.

(See also that post I made yesterday about having strong opinions about random things.)

@trixter @mirabilos
https://www.dafont.com/dark-elf.font

Serif'd and yet it'll change your reading speed. And you said dark fantasy, so it's calling out really.

When I try editing or even rereading my own fiction writing, I run into a problem where I'm not so much reading the words as I am letting the words trigger the memory of the story as it existed in my head. Also because of this I tend to speed-read because I know what's going on, I know what happens, I'm just trying to savor the meaty bits, but that makes it very hard for me to tell if something is paced well or not.

I'm going to work on that as I go back over this novel one more time. I'm tempted to compile it into an epub or PDF to see if that helps, but if I don't at least let myself do line-edits I'll go mad.

Maybe sometime soon I'll toss the first chapter out here in case anybody wants to see what I'm on about.

#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy

I am *struggling* against the urge to use this novel project as an excuse to buy that wee e-reader Aftermath just had a post about.

I want it so much but I am so broke.