AvaLarksen
'OF CROWS AND THORNS' readers! Wattpad has unlocked the very last chapter of RISING. According to the 'Wattpad Originals' team, Book 2 in the saga - RISING - will be free to read for only one week before they paywall the last 10 chapters of the book permanently.
There's a very good reason RISING is book two in the series and necessary to read before CAGED. Nelle and Graysen's next installment has been built around RISING and all its characters and mysteries. If you know, you know. ;)
So if you've been waiting to binge RISING - I would read it ASAP!
Ava xoxo
https://www.wattpad.com/story/176636020-rising-2-of-crows-and-thorns
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@TheWalnutTree An unsurmountable task like editing:- Holy shit, rewriting Bound, editing and making changes to Rising and Caged. That was like 1 million words to comb through, fix up, and make amendments to. That's the size of the entire Harry Potter series of 7 books. It seemed and was far too fucking hard. It was a slog. I had to break it up into small portions I tackled every day as a side project. Always allowed myself to write the current book the same day. If it became too hard to juggle, I'd give myself permission to leave it for a day or two. Sometimes it was better to do a big batch of it monthly, then the rest of the month just write the current book. But it needed to be done, so that's one good thing having stubborn, obstinate, and compulsively obsessive traits come in handy. lolol! Cusp of burnout:- Its good to keep an eye on this so you don't cross the line and burn out completely. Often scenes and writing is hard. Like fucking hard. lol. But I need to keep my butt in the seat and hands on the keyboard and power through. When the scene/chapter comes together and it polished, it's such an amazing euphoric feeling. All good. BUT sometimes, I'm trying hard to redraft/revise/edit and I'm not getting anywhere fast, and there's been no time off writing recently. So I then click that maybe I might be on the cusp of burning out. I need a bit of time out. So that's what I do to recharge. Often it's a day or two and then I'm back at it again and the revising is a lot easier just because I took a bit of time out for myself. Hope this helps! ❤️
AvaLarksen
@TheWalnutTree Sorry to hear this! ❤️❤️❤️ I'm not sure if anything I share could help. I've never not been able to write. I have difficulty with scenes or chapters that can take a little longer to unravel. Or I get paralyzed with fear about starting a new book. Or my next task - like doing a final edit on a monster-sized book - seems insurmountable. Or on the cusp of burnout. But that's as far as it goes. So tips for what I shared above would be:- Difficult scenes. Sometimes my scenes/chapters fall apart on me because it's not coming together like it should. I know what needs to come across in the scene, but for some deep gut reason, I know I'm missing some aspect of it. So, I create a brand new document (all my chapters are saved as single google docs) and start all over again, writing scene directions and story notes. Then slowly write, transferring anything from the prior mess that works. When I get to the sticky parts, I allow myself to ramble write anything about that part of the scene that comes to mind. Usually, just by rambling, something the characters do or say completely solves the scene/chapter and then I'm able to write it properly. Paralyzed with fear over a new book:- Firstly I acknowledge that this is going to be a messy, horrible, shitty, rough exploratory draft just to get to know the story and characters and therefore what I'm later going to write when it comes to properly writing the book. No pressure. No stress. Then I write down everything I do know about the story and characters and all the big set pieces. Then I start to write, somewhere else - NOT the beginning. Right now, I'm writing a brand new story a brand new world, and I started my rough draft at the half way mark. Now I've circled back to the beginning and starting there to write my way to the middle portion. There's a ton I don't know about this story and how it's going to work out, but I know eventually I will. But today and this rambling version, not yet. And that's okay.
TheWalnutTree
@AvaLarksen ❤️ any tips for getting out of a major writers block. I’ve tried a lot of things and I’m still stuck but I do have the urge to write but I feel worried it won’t be good enough as what I’ve already written (as in continuing a chapter)
