My creative process is fairly simple. Plot while I’m walking or biking. Write on my computer in queues for games. Write on my computer during lectures. Write on my phone on the bus and the plane and sometimes the grocery store.
I don’t often get burned out from writing, except immediately after NaNoWriMo. I’ve been doing this for enough years to notice the warning signs, which means it’s time to take a break for a week or so and read a few books. (For me, the signs are usually little brief spurts of writer’s block, which is unusual for me, general overall dissatisfaction with my projects, and flipping back and forth restlessly between multiple WIPs.) My brain usually takes a day or two to get dragged kickingscreaming out of writing mode and into reading mode, and all my discord chats have to hear me bitching about the fact that I’m trying to start reading a new book but I really want to be writing but I can’t quite think of anything to write. And then I actually get into the new book and I’m fine. For me, it doesn't usually take more than a week of reading before the brain is ready to go again, though that's often quite a lot of books.
So, for reasons that will be made clear later, I’m enforcing a break on myself for a few weeks so I can hit my main MS with a fresh mind for some pretty significant rewrites. So far my reads have been His Majesty’s Dragon (soon to be followed by the rest of the series, since I massively enjoyed it), The Dresden Files: Stormfront (which I hadn’t read in years), The Ballad of Black Tom (my favorite Lovecraft retelling I’ve encountered so far) and Saint Death’s Daughter (which I haven’t finished yet but is proving excellent.)
I definitely plan to pick up a few more Temeraire books as soon as I have the chance- Napoleonic era fantasy is often a little hit or miss for me, but this was resoundingly good. I’ve read a few more recent works by Naomi Novik, which are of course also excellent, but I hadn’t picked up this specific series.
Saint Death’s Daughter is a recent release, and I found it on a Reddit thread discussing the year’s best fantasy so far. I’m inclined to agree, and encourage people to pick it up (though it is very long.)
Over my brief break from writing, I suppose I should also make a goodreads account to properly rank these. I never feel quite up to leaving full-length reviews, but I definitely have some good words to say about all of this week’s reads.
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