If you’re like me you have no fucking clue. Just out here winging and hoping for the best. That is in fact how I write. Could be worse, I could be winging it with a non-functioning brain. 🙂
It appears that some people are.

This morning was all about adverbs, adjectives, passive and active sentences, loglines, and synopses. The one thing that’s fun is the logline. Loglines are great to write. So are taglines. Haven’t forgotten those wee buggers.
Doesn’t matter how many synopses I’ve written I hate them. I’ve tried all sorts of ways to make them palatable. The best I can come up with is writing a bullet pointed backwards outline as you finish writing each chapter of your novel. At least that way you have something you can use when you get to the end. Otherwise it’s even more annoying. Nothing says kill your spirit like reducing a 100k novel into 500 words.

But loglines – they’re fun. I write many for each novel. They’re all different. They evolve as the story progresses. They’re quick and fun. You can fiddle around with the formula. It’s not a business document it’s an elevator pitch type situation. Quick, fun, designed to get people interested. Designed to keep me interested. Not joking about that. I don’t talk about my current work because if I told everyone what was going on, I’d be over it already. There are a lot of wannabe writers who talk their ideas to death. Don’t talk about it, just write it. FFS.
(FYI I’m 2 tequilas in so there is no telling where this post is going to end up.)

This afternoon I met up with a Twitter friend. (I’m not going to say an X friend because we’ve been friends longer than that shit, way before Musk started his campaign of destruction.) We both have Geoff’s. Straight up we were going to be friends. 🙂
Two hours of talking and laughing is good for the soul. We absolutely must do it again. We should all get together when my Geoff is back home. (Very much wishing we had a countdown because it feels like forever.) The Geoffs have a wee bit in common.

I should’ve eaten more than a handful of liquorice all sorts and a couple of crackers before deciding tequila was the way to go. Oh, well. I don’t get hangovers so that parts not a problem. 🙂
Today was a good day.

Now Siri is having a problem with Apple Music which seems to include iHeart radio and TuneIn. Thankfully Siri can still play The Rolling Stones from my music. There is a good chance I’ll end up downstairs (I moved my stereo downstairs) playing “Let it Bleed” which I should’ve played for my brother’s birthday the other day. I could just bring it back upstairs …