Me and you just think alike lol this post awakened the same sleeper memory in both of us :P

Also I think mine was technically after yours, there were no posts when I went to type my comment and yours popped up after I hit post lol

Naw, we posted at the same time. When I typed my comment (the one i assume you’re refering to) there were no comments. Once I hit post this one was already here.

Great minds think alike or something like that lol

Super fair point, I’m projecting human emotions onto the beavers & don’t actually know how they feel about the sound of running water lol

From what i remember, it has to do with the noise of flowing water. Bevers find the sound annoying and will cover it until it stops.

I remember a study where they played river noises from a speaker and the bevers covered the speakers with sticks – even in the absence of any water.

Outlining can be a real time suck. Sometimes it also takes away my energy to actually write, like i already figured out what happens so writing it doesnt feel as good.

I think figure it out as you go can produce some amazing stories and concepts-- so if it works for you then you should go for it :) Stephen King for example never outlines & it’s worked for his career lol

Good luck with the rest of this month! I look forward to reading more of your work :D

Yeah lol, other minds have a way of going a completely unexpected direction. It can be fun to see how an outside perspective views your world though :) ive definetly thrown off a few GMs with my unexpected game choices lol

& yeah the logistics are way beyond what we could do currently, more so a cool sci fi concept to daydream about

Yeah, there are lots of times just getting started is that hardest part for me. Then once I sit down and am 10 min into the task I can just keep going. I’m hoping especially weekend days my 15min goal will turn into a sold couple of hours of work :)

Editing is often much harder to get into the flow though, I can empathize with that lol. I ended up over thinking everything & just stall out. Every once in a while though, I’m in an editing mood and can get through alot. It’s soooo mood dependent though lol

So this past month i didn’t really keep on top of my writing. I did a few journal entries and quite a bit of work related writing, but nothing creative.

This month I think I’m going to make the goal of writing 3x per week for 15 min (sat, sun, and tues). It’d be great if some of those sessions end up being longer, but I think that’s enough to at least get me back in the swing of things.

It’d be nice to have something I can share in next months update, maybe the opening chapter of my book? That’s mostly done and just needs some polishing, so is hopefully a reasonable goal.

Congrats on having the serial romance accepted! Even half a pound is still making cash with your writing & i think something to be excited about :D

& good luck this month keeping up with the serialized work plus doing some progress on the climate fiction. Sounds like you’re doing great :)

I love the snippet, it’s definetly and interesting introduction to the setting :) Is it a stylistic choice to not use quotations around speech? I’ve seen it done in a few books and it always give the writing a kind of mystical or folksy vibe.

I’m glad you were able to get something finished, it might not be alot of content but it is content lol

I hope November is productive for you as well. Do you have any specific goals, or just trying to keep writing for the month?

Oh and the short story you linked to is really interesting, thanks for sharing :)