Journal

"Visualise and execute,"  Zarya, from the video game Overwatch, would say in her thick Russian accent. I did today what I said I would last night. I finished the final touches on Chapter Six, read Chapter Seven in its entirety, and have begun rewriting the latter.  At the rate that I'm going, I see myself finishing my manuscript in the foreseeable future. Once the weekend comes around tomorrow, I'll have a lot more time to continue writing. One word after the other. That is the only way this manuscript is going to be done, even if I have to go through my unproductive process of writing an act before revising the whole manuscript. I'll get there. I'll get to the top of that mountain. It's odd. I have sacrificed a significant sum of things to commit to the schedule that I currently live through. I've stopped writing poems. By that decision, I've also stopped performing. Gone were the days I would turn off my brain and play video games with my fri...

A short entry. I am in the brief process of reading through Chapter Six. Small changes. A few words here, a few cuts there. I won't finish this by tonight. I'm severely lacking sleep and I might've contracted mild food poisoning. Either way, I'm expecting to get this done by tomorrow. Then, I'll be able to get started on concluding Act One's revisions.

This is the first of my journal entry regarding my progress on The Ethics of Demons. I'm happy. After months being stuck in the slump of writer's block, I've finally finished revising chapter six. I'm now one chapter away from revising Act One in its entirety. Off the top of my head, this has already given me several ideas for upcoming blog posts on my writing process and my daily life as an aspiring novelist. However, I digress. There were a lot of things happening in my life that kept me from writing consistently. In fact, one of those things was remembering how vital consistency is. It's not the same for everyone but my ability to write highly depends on momentum. Missing one or two days of writing is fine. A couple of weeks? Months? There'd be no hope. I'm not proud of those times where I would be punching in less than ten words a week. It's a learning process. Everyone has gone through it, is going through it and will go through it, of that I am...

I am horrible at commiting to a blog, yet I try to anyway. Moving forward, my plan for my blog is simple. My blog will be my journal. A journal or diary that will keep me accountable to my writing; an archive of quotes and ideas I come across; a platform for me to voice my opinions, and a space for me to share experiences that would be too lengthy to write about anywhere else. I expect this discipline to be a step forward in honing my craft as a writer. Thus, I can only hope that I can consistently commit to it this time around. That in itself is already a post to write about.  Edit: I just found out that this is exactly what I decided months ago. I'm an idiot.

If I traveled back in time and told my younger self I'd be fully committed to writing a novel, I'd end up kicking my younger self in the shins before he could get too excited. I'm two-thirds done with my manuscript. It's horrible, but I keep telling myself most things are when I'm relying on streams of consciousness to churn the words out.  It's an emotional roller coaster. There's a lot of frustration and anxiety. Reading through paragraphs on paragraphs that don't reflect the visions I had; only then to discover maybe I didn't have them in the first place. Poorly built roads leading to these moments that I so wanted to write. This is the immediate worry among a long list of worries. However,  I don't see myself doing anything else.  I don't want to do anything else. I  delude myself into thinking this is what 'having a calling' means and I fall into it with my arms wide open.  On a side note, the fact that Samuel Beckett felt ...

Source I finished Persona 5 not too long ago and I'm waiting until next week before I get to streaming New Game+.  I'm biased. I love the Persona series. It's the first JRPG series I got into when I was old enough to appreciate the grind and pace of a Role Playing Game. The Persona series to me is what Final Fantasy is to most people. With a revamp in style and visuals to match the current generation of graphics, Persona 5 is becoming the lighthouse for most people looking for a single player game with a good story. The problem is though, if you're looking for an original story, Persona 5 is not the game for you.  Without spoilers, the most basic premise of the game's plot is the usual case of a group of people who gain superpowers and use it to stop evil. Nothing special about that.  What is special is the cast of characters and the ideas they handle. Since Persona 4 back in 2008, the writers behind the game have been using the story to...

I've been falling behind on Twitch streaming. My sleep schedule has been all over the place and I've been demotivated over not having the appropriate gear for it. Persona 5 comes out in three days and I hope they don't have blocked content. I hoped they don't block the whole game. I'm wondering whether I should stream my writing. Would anyone watch that? A writer going through his second draft not knowing anything at all on what to do. It goes alongside the Kickstarter account I'm thinking of doing for the novel. Streaming for the backers is one way of holding myself accountable to my schedule.