I’m often adding to my Writing Notes (a document that I jot things down in when a scene or character or complete synopsis strikes me), but I have been continuing on with The Writer’s Bookshelf. I’ve also been writing more blog posts, not that you could tell with my lack of posting from the past few days; I write somewhat “series” based and so the things I’ve written have just been scheduled for another time. I don’t know how many other blogs of similar content have a schedule, but I just find that it keeps me a bit structured, otherwise this blog would just return to the mess it was when I first started it. It also always gives me a starting point to write something, the drawback of that being if I don’t feel like/have nothing on the matter.

The Writer’s Bookshelf is almost like a miniseries of scenes/little chapters about my life as a writer if the main protagonists from my most treasured work suddenly appeared in my apartment. They come as miniature people and the bookshelf is converted into somewhat of an apartment block for them. It’s an exploration of both my writing process and my relationship with my characters and their relationship with each other.

I want to do a similar series, but full of one-shots where different characters appear in my apartment and I sit down and have a chat with them as a way to deconstruct my writing process when it came to constructing them. I’ve done this before with a Dungeons and Dragons character, where I’ve had to comfort her in death and answer why I gave her such a tragic backstory. I’m not sure if I’ve uploaded that one here yet (probably not considering I didn’t get a great mark) but I think I’d like to refine it and upload it.

I’ve been writing study notes more than anything this week, doing them long-hand because it’s nice to go back to that every now and then, until it wears my wrist out of course. It’s been a while since I’ve taken “study notes”, and it’s reminded me how much I love learning. Which is nice.