A Long Time Coming Little Ivywood Writing Update! 📖
Hello Folk of the Hollow! It was an unbearably hot Sunday today, June is in full-force here in the Hollow. Luckily, I got to spend the day in the cottage with the air conditioner playing a TTRPG with a group of friends. I feel like I had a really full, good day of comradery (and snacks!), capped by getting to come back up to the library and get some writing done for the first time in a long time.
Lately I haven’t really been in the headspace to do much work—and what I did get done, I got done long-hand on my tablet so I didn’t feel like I could do much of an update when I didn’t know what the word count was. But, of course, in the time it took to realize that wasn’t true and there were ways I could still update even without the word count, I wasn’t writing much anyway.
But this weekend was a phenomenally good one, and I feel like I’m coming back to my old self. I brought up Little Ivywood (my cozy fantasy mixed with dark fantasy stand-alone) on my Word Doc and started working again. Some of it might need a little help, but that’s what the editing phase is for! Right now I’m just shutting off my brain and pouring my heart into it . . . and, honestly, I had almost forgotten how wonderful it felt.
So before I close up shop for the night and get ready to wind down for bed, I wanted to give you a little update on what I accomplished. It wasn’t a whole lot, but it was enough to remind me why writing is the thing I’m meant to do in this life. No questions asked.
Project Title: Little Ivywood
New Word Count: 1,798
Total Word Count: 10,461
Things Achieved: We finally got going on the project after a long haitus! I had, like, two chapters written long-hand on my tablet and most of tonight was spent transcribing them and adding anything I felt needed expanded on or better peppered in. The female main character helped me do a little worldbuilding while graciously allowing me to talk about her backstory—which, in truth, was pretty much all that I got done tonight. I didn’t have as much time at the keyboard as I would have liked, but I’m eager to come back tomorrow and keep working on it.
I feel like mixing two such opposing genres is going to be a difficult balancing act: so much of what makes cozy fantasy cozy is the antithesis of what makes dark fantasy dark, but I’m feeling really confident in my ability to blend the two in a way that neither one takes over the other. I understand both genres, and isn’t that pretty much half the battle?
Anyway, without much to talk about yet I feel like this is a good place to end the post 💚 I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend, and I’ll see you next time!
Bye-Bye~💚!
