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Tradition #IWSG 03/04/2020

March 4, 2020 By ravenofiernan 4 Comments

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Monthly Status Report

So far, it seems like 2020 is a good year for consistency, but a bad year for actual productivity. I’ve been spending most of my “writing” time on critiques and podcasts, learning and absorbing rather than doing. But I think it is all good, and useful. I think I do alternate between fallow and fertile periods, and I know I will come back to a fertile period when I am ready. I have the luxury of a day job, but at the same time, I do want to get back to it.

That said, I have a new desk with more filing cabinets (really just a board on top of the filing cabinets), and so I am looking forward to getting back to my main revision now that I have all that extra space!

Optional Monthly Question

Every month, there is an optional question you can answer. I like them because they usually allow me to share more about myself as a writer and as a person in a way I might not have thought of myself. So, here is this month’s question:

March 4 question – Other than the obvious holiday traditions, have you ever included any personal or family traditions/customs in your stories?

I feel like I have, but of course, as is often the case, I can’t think of one right now. I know in the first draft of the novel I am revising, I had two long “scenes” that I had to cut about personal things. But they were things that didn’t really belong: how I put together a jigsaw puzzle, and how I like to make my ramen. Both were long pointless passages of exposition that had nothing to do with the story, and really didn’t even give much character to my character.

I can’t really think of anything else at the moment, but I might add Mr. So to my cozy series. Mr. So was called Mr. So because my dad’s first name started with S. He is a personal family elf during Christmas time. I can’t remember all the traditions around Mr. So, but I could see adding a kind of house-fairy to my cozy series. Maybe not related to Christmas.

I think this could add a lot of flavor actually!

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Comments

  1. Natalie Aguirre says

    March 4, 2020 at 12:49 pm

    Hopefully you learned some things that will help your writing by attending the podcasts. Hope you get back into your writing this month.

    Reply
    • ravenofiernan says

      March 12, 2020 at 11:27 pm

      Thank you! I feel I have learned a lot.

      Reply
  2. Anna says

    March 4, 2020 at 3:52 pm

    Adding a house fairy sound perfect. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Anna from elements of emaginette

    Reply
    • ravenofiernan says

      March 12, 2020 at 11:27 pm

      Thanks! It sounds like a good idea to me, too!

      Reply

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