writing ⁽³⁾

Remember that post, I had a dream? In 31 days, from December 25th 2022 until today, January 25th 2023, I wrote 79.000 words for the story that was in that dream. Zoolah. I'm very proud of the story. I think it came out great. It deals with all kinds of stuff. There are castes, a single-gender species of people, space travel, the desperation of a planet whose occupants used and/or wasted all its natural resources and who resort to dramatic…

And I'm not Dr Martin Luther King. Around Christmas last year I did have a dream. A very vivid one, one that I could almost call 'lucid'. From that dream, a story is developing. A science fiction story. Crazy, yes? Probably, if you're not a writer or another kind of artist. Dreams are powerful 'beings', that can do a lot of things. The basis of the dream and the story have been used before: Man gets abducted by aliens to…

I've been thinking about NaNoWriMo. The writing-frenzy month of November, to punch out a 50.000 word story in 30 days. I've done that 'race' several times, and - honestly - it's not a big race for me. I've written 50K and 60K words in 7 of the months of this year, without the race element. I'm not a racer anyway. Maybe I'll stop doing Nanowrimo. The reason is not the ease of which I can 'win' it, but the problems…