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6/5/2025

I wrote 117 words today. I got sidetracked with playing Guardians of Azuma. It was just a little worldbuilding, but instead of telling the reader outright, I just kind of leave contextual evidence/hints. Since my main character knows about the worldstate, i have to find ways to sneak in information to the readers who don't know what's going on.

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6/4/2-25

I wrote 306 words. I am so tired. I might sleep in tomorrow.

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7/3/2025

I wrote 201 words today, in part because of my cycle. Still better than nothing. Trying to figure what scene I want to write next.

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6/2/2025

I wrote 762 words today. I wasn't even trying to push myself. Once I got in the flow, it just kept coming. I'm so confused. How did that even happen? I was adding more to one section regarding the main character's feelings on her disability.

My writing buddy may just have a field day come this Friday.

For the magic system, it's going to be based on the senses. It's how people interact with them. So the most common are sight, sound, and touch. An unusual one is smell and one of the rarer types is taste.

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6/1/2025

Wrote 502 words today exactly. I genuinely want to be consistent. I'm focusing on the beginning currently. I thought I'd write everything in a nonlinear fashion, but I don't know if I want to do that anymore. There's a summer challenge going on for writing. I forgot what it was called. Let me check. Once Upon A Summer.

I didn't even know if I was gonna write today, but I did and I'm happy. I actually started writing the beginning before June 1st. My goal isn't a word count, it's to get the beginning done in a timely manner.

I'll see you all tomorrow maybe?

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i want to have the first part of TEC done by September 1st. Just to give myself ample time.

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3/28/2025

I kinda snatched this blog away from all of you. Sorry about that. I had to rework certain things.

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3-25-2025

I've been fleshing out characters and I know now where to start a portion of the story. I like to keep things kind of hush hush on here. I'm also glad that there's a tiny group of you and no one really knows about what it is I'm doing. It's like a secret almost.

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3/9/2025

I feel like my writing is improving and for some reason it scares me. That probably sounds insane, but I'm being so serious right now. I don't know how to explain it. It feels almost literary. I think the prose is decent, but what do you mean writing consistently means improvement? You're lying.

Also, I've done away with the monthly wordcount goal of 10,000 words. It didn't help me improve my actual writing and just caused unneeded stress.

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3/1/2025

I worked on a romance scene. Hopefully it's better. Still, this is the first draft. My problem is I don't want to start writing, but when I finally get around to it, I think, "This is fun."

I've been busy lately with other things.

Time to turn in for bed.

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2-26-2025

I just barely made it to 20,003 words! I was STRUGGLING this month. I think I have to write everyday in order to keep up, if I'm being honest. It might be more manageable since the wordcount is fairly small and doable. It's about 326 words per day.

My brother asked me if I could handle a monthly wordcount goal of 10,000 and I was like, 'Yeah, I can do it." I almost didn't.

I think habits will help me in the long run.

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1/31/2025

I made it to 10,000 words! I've rarely gotten this far into my longform stories so I'm proud of myself! I know 10,000 may sound small, but it is a large amount to me. Next friday is my birthday too.

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1/29/2025

I kind of wrote a banger today. I'm so close to my goal of 10,000 words. I'm currently sitting at 8,110. And I know that's not a huge leap, but I kind of got unmotivated so I'll have to write like crazy these next few days.

I didn't know where to go with the plot. I was stressing over it too and I also got busy with life. I don't want to be so busy that I don't write though.

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1/18/2025

I made it to 7,022 words. 3,000 (less than that) more to go for the month. I'm working on giving the siblings defining traits. Sienna has an assortment of different chokers she likes to wear. Violet always has a butterfly hair clip in. That's all I have currently for physical defining traits. Sienna appears earlier than I expected. Strange things happen when you write.

It's coming along. I have a character, Falkin Dorsemaj, who is the siblings' father. I realized a few nights ago, it's not a very Asian name for someone who is supposed to be Dalshin. As someone who is half Korean, I realize not all Asian people have Asian names, but I still came up with a backstory reason for his name. The reason is somewhat bittersweet, but I also think it ties me closely to the story.

I might actually post the dialogue for that particular scene if anyone is interested.

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1/16/2025

I wrote more today and I reached a personal milestone! 6,000 words! The plot is coming along. I'm a little worried about the pacing. I don't know if I'm going at the right speed, but I'll keep at it anyway. That's a problem I can fix later on. Still, I'm worried everything is going fast. If it is, then I can add in more quiet moments.

As I'm writing, I'm thinking of the opening of Kingdom Hearts 1 and Kingdom Hearts 2. The reason being, magic has left Emis, or at least, it appears to have left Emis. Evelyn encounters strange things in rapid succession. It makes me think of the strange things that happen during the first few hours of Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 and yes, you know it's fantasy, but Sora and Roxas don't know that at first. I guess Kingdom Hearts has influenced me more than I realize. That's not bad, it's just interesting to take note of.

In my heart of hearts, The Emissian Code would be a video game despite the fact that I'm writing it in novel format. One of my friends was like, "Just create a room in Blender and keep adding from there." And I might do that. I genuinely want TEC to be a multimedia project. Like, I don't think it would work solely as a written story. Or maybe, I don't want it to just be a written story. (I love books by the way. They're wonderful.)

I might write diary entries for the siblings to explore them further since there are a lot of them.

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1/15/2025

I'm having a hard time getting started with the trials. Also, I haven't forgotten about this blog.

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1/10/2025

I was cleaning up the scene I wrote yesterday. I was going to work on the trials, but I needed to figure something out. I did come up with a cool character though. It's fun writing for her.