Few important things for an author

Okay so today I decided to talk about few important things for an author.

First of all, remember that you should never compare yourself to classic authors like Dostoyevsky, Tolstoi, Tolkien and such. You are not them, and fact is that being famous and "classical" author doesn't make one a good author. Besides comparing yourself to someone else only makes you feel bad about yourself.
Second, as I wrote earlier: take care of your physical and mental health. They're important because feeling bad and tired will reflect to your stories and progressing.
Third, your betareader is your best friend. It's not like she/he points out flaws and mistakes because she/he wants to make you feel like you're an awful author. By pointing those things out is your beta's way of helping you to improve your author's skills. From my experience I can say that my beta is the best.

So let your imagination take over and start writing ;)

Progressing slowly...

I'm starting to get frustrated. I completed the fifth chapter of Russian Lullaby some days ago and now I'm waiting for my betas comments about the chapter. Four days in and I haven't heard anything. Of course she might be busy but it is frustrating to sit and wait. But for now only thing I can do is to sit and wait. No matter how frustrating I think it is.

Some good news too, though. I think I have an inspiration to continue "project Dusk Fall" (as I like to call it). Thanks to my flatmate. She's unbelivably creative and genius.

Oh shit! The D day!!!

Today I'm gonna talk about getting stories or chapters ready for your readers to read. Yeah, they sure check your text daily to see if you have updated new things and yeah, they'll be disappointed to see nothing is happening. But for your own sake: do not give any certain D days, just in case you have unexpected babysitting job or you're simply busy with many things. If the readers love the story they'll wait for the new chapter as long as it gets published.

I always disliked the D days at school because it made my stress level rocket sky high. And quite often I was writing the essays night before and they sucked. So when I became an amateur online author I decided that I won't give myself or my readers any certain dates when the next chapter is up.

Few easy steps to save guard your own mental health as a writer:
1. as I said do not give any dates to yourself or your readers
2. accept the fact that you always don't have inspiration to write
3. allow yourself write even the worst shit there is because it might help you to have an inspiration
4. remember also take care of your health by exercising, seeing friends and eating + sleeping well.

A new begining

I got inspiration to write yesterday so I continued Russian Lullaby a little. I still feel like writing but I don't have any ideas so far.

For a while ago I had the idea of killing one of the characters of Russian Lullaby but I had to ditch the idea because the character is way too important for the story. So plot is still a little open. Yet there will be major turning point coming, I can feel it in bones though I don't know what's gonna happen... yet.

Writer's block

Watching the empty white paper or computer screne and trying your damnest get something on it? That is how I feel right now. I have many stories waiting to be completed and yet I can do nothing to help them progress because I have no idea how to go on.

My online novel "Russian Lullaby" is standing still. My project I call "The Dusk Fall" is going nowhere. It is not easy to be an author, not even if you're an amateur. Everyday without progressing with the story feels like you are letting your readers down. And for what? For a new shitty chapter you wrote in hurry because you realized you haven't published any updates in months? They say that good is worth waiting. But what if you never get the brilliant spark of idea?