#writathon

Hi hello~

Janar was the first one to become an alchemist after scientist Ludwig Eynar discovered that transmuting an element into another is possible. His family originates from East Africa but he was born in Lareaen. They didn't agree with Christianity so in absence of a religion to believe in, Janar threw all his faith in science. He started learning alchemy barely a year after it was introduced to humanity and soon, at the age of 14, he became the very first member of the Rubedo, a team of alchemists in the service of the kingdom. He is convinced that science is the key to peace and prosperity.

Description: black; 35 years old; calm and collected; it's really hard to make him angry; has a strong and a bit dangerous faith in sciences; doesn't like literature because he thinks that it's a made-up thing and is useless. He's the strongest alchemist in Lareaen, possibly even more talented than king Ludwig himself; he would do anything for the kingdom. His biggest fear is drowning.

Tag list: @omgbrekkerkaz | @godxblooded | @puffyswritings | @leofailsatwriting | @georgiacambrielwritblr | @alpinewriter | @borntobeabook | @evanagy

I’m a bit late, but I’m going to do Writathon today too! Okay so my goal is to finish chapter 8. I have to do some research before it too. So my aim is to write about 2-3k words. I have about 4 scenes to write.

As I have found a quite nice, comfortable time-window conveniently close to 2nd September, I decided to start the Writathon a tiny teeny bit early.

(for those who read this and don’t know what Writathon is - basically a writing marathon, when you’re supposed to devote your day to writing, created by @sciocosmos)

I’m going to stream my progress, because that boosts my motivation to write ^^

Current wordcount: 23,146

Goal for today: ~36k

here’s the stream link

here’s the [now almost 70 pages long] doc

here would be my tag-list, but I haven’t got one yet 

Okay so I’ve been emotionally backed into a corner by the wonderful @katabasiss because I can’t say no to a friend asking for moral support which means I’m gonna take part.

Goals include:

- Coming up with a title for my sci-fi WIP

- Writing out a few character shorts

- Starting my short story that I’m gonna submit to the awesome people at @inkandsword-magazine

- Maybe even starting to organise the snippets I’ve written for my WIP into a linear format.

(It’s way too late; I really need to go to bed, but I wanted to say -)

I’m happy. Relaxed. Content. This was the most productive writing day I had in the last couple of weeks - I thought I’d find it hard to focus on writing for so many hours, and that it’d be weird to switch between projects (I normally work on one thing at the time), but it’s been fine. The cat breaks were a meaningful factor there, but it probably helps that the three stories I wanted to look at are so different from one another? Or maybe I was just lucky. 

Anyway, here are some random thoughts.

I now have a much clearer idea of where I want to go with my novel, and what I want to try and say. Structure-wise, there will be more adjustments, but then again, I was never very good at mapping out everything in advance, and not having all the details doesn’t scare me, so that’s fine. I have my beginning and I (sort of) have my end. The characters are still a work in progress, but I think that my next step will definitely be more research into the general landscape.

As for my old novel, I’m glad I wrote it, but I’m not sure I want to pitch it to anyone. It’s too personal, and too inadvertently personal, and I doubt there’s a market for it, especially in Italy. It was about some feelings I needed to see on paper; and maybe I’ll go back to it one day, but probably not as soon as I was (vague)thinking.

But: I finished the first draft of my new chapter (current word count: 3476), which means I can finally update All of My Tomorrows. Depending on what happens IRL, I think Tuesday may be a realistic expectation. I’m relieved I found a way to make this chapter work, because I really wanted to get to the next part. Onward and upward and all that.

And, more importantly: @sciocosmos, thank you very much for organizing this challenge! It’s been a joy to take part in it, and I wish all the smiles and all the feels and all the best to all the tumblr writers out there. Rock on.