Lindsay Gurka

I’m sitting here trying to put words to a story on pause in my mind, so I’m scrolling through pictures to give it a jump, but found this instead. GISHWHES was the best. I always left it so hyped up and exhausted, but the inspiration would be flow among the wake of that creative storm. Like, I actually carved a living room set out of a potato. Who gets to say that? It was so weird and so much fun, I miss it. This picture was to satisfy the quest to illustrate “snack attack”. It made me laugh. It’s morbid. It’s fucking weird. But it’s hilarious. Or at least I think it is.

Anyways, my current novel is percolating as Tilly 2.0 rages in my head and I’m dying to get her the hell out of there. I have a few books that I’m reading (always more than a few, it’s like the 100 tabs I always have going in my browsers, gotta love adhd) and one of them is basically a guide to writing a book chapter by chapter. I like a guide. I love format. I fucking love a solid template. So, maybe this will help guide my stupid brain to the end of the damn story already.

I mean, I know what’s going to happen. I already know how it ends, it’s not that, it’s just how to get Tilly from point A to point Z and every other point in between. I’ve been waiting for her to just take over and write the thing herself, but the cursor blinks on an empty page, tap tap tapping in impatience, so, I need to figure this out on my own. Like I’m still trying to figure this thing out. What is this blog going to be about!? This. It’s all this. And when I’m done with Tilly’s story and it’s published and in the world, I’ll take all these stupid posts and put them in a file together with some witty title about what it looks like to trudge through a book from start to published as a new author.

It’s about that time that I go back to that blank cursor. Maybe I’ll post a writing status at the end of each post? Yes. That should be fun, right? Whatever, let’s do it.

Table Six
Page count: 2
Coffee intake: Somewhere beyond a pot (I really need to get a handle on this)
Music: Anthony Raneri and Bayside on looooooops for days
Books I’m reading:
1. How to Write a Novel Chapter By Chapter by Neil Black
2. Ghosts: A Haunted Story by Lisa Morton
3. Shadows and Ink vol 1 by Joe Mynhardt
4. The Burial Tide by Neil Sharpson
Games I’m playing:
Final Fantasy Tactics (Loving the story mode with the voice acting)
Hollow Knight: Silk Song (LOVE the graphics)

Love, Lindsay