Recent content by GracefulBlue

Thank you, Pmmg, for sharing your process. Gives me something to think on. Due to my limited time to work on my world, I have to think of a way to create a little bit at a time consistently. In the past I've done an "all in" approach where I work on details for days, then don't touch it for months.

Thanks! How would you implement this strategy to planning and world building? I have so many details to work out, but it seems overwhelming.

I also listen to a variety of things. Current obsessions include Cosmo Sheldrake (stirs my imagination with his creative lyrics and rhythms), and The Arcadian Wild (relatable themes, pretty voices.) If I need to get in the zone, typically a good ol sea chanty will help. Santiana by the Longest...

Hello Bundydoc! Congratulations on making it to the editing stage of your novel! Glad to meet you.

I process my life through fiction. Helps me find a safe place to play out feelings or senarios. Sometimes I'll be in the middle of an activity and it will strike me this is how this character feels. How would it look in their world? I can also relate to the compulsion. A "what if" creeps in my...

You know, I really don't and I would love one. I like the idea of writing at least a sentence a day. I have two toddlers and having time to myself is short in supply these days. I usually find myself spontaneously writing at 4am because that's when my brain gets ideas apparently. It's unhealthy...

This looks like an older post, but I'll hop in. I was a fairly avid daydreamer as a kid. I grew out of some things, but others I've kept. Sometimes it helps me cope in moments of boredom or fear. While a passenger in a car I occasionally daydream up a creature that is running to keep up, or at...

Noted, I'll work on it. I used to use an image of Lúthien Tinúviel but I don't think that will work this time around.

Hello, I'm Graceful Blue. Name came from a mountain man rendezvous when I was wearing a blue dress and slipped and splashed into a puddle. A friend commented, "well, that was graceful!" and voila. I'm not exactly an active writer. I wanted to write when I was a kid, and started a novel at age...