Hello hello, and welcome to our now 13th (XIIIth) writing club update. My dictionary explains that the meaning of “thirteen” is:
One more than twelve.
Truly to words to live by. Shuffling around my books for a more inspirational bit of numerology, I find the chapter in Mervyn Peake’s “Titus Groan” book, wherein we’re introduced to the outsider “Keda” who is to be a wet-nurse for the titular prince of Gormenghast. I’m not sure how that relates to what we’re doing here, but it’s a pretty weird, and cool, book.
Speaking of weird and cool…!
As always, all are extremely welcome to participate in the writing club, regardless of whether they’re in the list above.
I think it depends on your own past experience and relationship with big projects. But I’ve had multiple book series now that I’ve worked on for multiple years including occasional breaks, so at this point I’m somewhat confident I can pick them back up again and it won’t be an impossible task to get into it. I think that takes some experimentation and learning how to stick with projects to pull that off, which I certainly didn’t manage when I was younger.
One trick I like to use is to never fully let it go, by for example continuing to take notes and to make other associated small art projects to keep the mythos alive and going in my head.