1/22 - 1/24

Ah, yes. Another two days where I struggle to find inspiration for the story I created myself. The low point of today was when I forgot my own protagonist's name and couldn't find the last time I used it in narrative and had to go back to my synopsis to check.

'A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.' - Thomas Mann.

I definitely agree.

1/16-1/18

I decided to drop my old outline format since it wasn't working for me and the intense detail I was putting into it was actually kind of stressing me out since I didn't have the content of every conversation and interaction worked out. I had to gloss over some conversations I planned to happen, and I ended up pretty paranoid that not having everything planned was going to lead to disastrous plot holes later on.
So I redid my entire outline, but this time more informally, under the assumption no one else was really going to use them except me, and therefore I'm the only one who really needs to understand what's going on.
Hence, every outline major point is written as if it were a meme or a sensational newspaper headline. It's great. I'm kind of having a good time.

1/9 -1/11

On Tuesday I reread my work so far and found a couple plot holes and died a little on the inside. I corrected them. 

Today I watched some videos and tried to write some of the skating scenes looking at some old performances. I also did some government notes.

Nov 28-Dec 8 collective One Blog Entry

Worked on college apps; mostly essays for MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Rice, Amherst, Williams, Columbia.

Over the break I worked some more on my outline. I'm really hoping to finish my outline in the next few weeks and go into a writing frenzy to finish it on time, or maybe downsize from novel into novella and make my life easier, so I would be writing maybe around 50-100 pages instead of 200.

I have... like half an outline done for 200 pages. I'll be a little sad if I have to delete parts of it in order to make room for the second half of a novella outline due to downsizing...

I gave up on the outline for now and decided to revert back to my old method. I initially wanted to outline the whole book before starting the actual writing but after finishing half the outline I kind of lost direction. So I wrote the first chapter today and will write the last chapter next so I can hopefully figure out what to put in between. I have a couple of major events and a climax, but I'd like to have a couple more ups and downs in the denouement.

I finished my ED and EA applications this week so I plan to work on RD next so I can finish early and focus on thesis by December.

For the past two weeks, I have mostly been working on college app essays. I finalized my CommonApp essay, and wrote two supplements for early decision. I have edited both twice and plan to start my fourth CommonApp edit and start writing the last two supplements this week.