For the most part, my life’s very good. I’m happy, healthy, I love what I do for both the day job and my passion. I always feel as though I’m living my dream, or as close to my dream as I can get at this point. Because if I’m not living my dream, then who […]
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I continue to make great progress with the rewrites. I finished the character edit, figured out the prologues and rewrote the epilogues, and am almost finished with the Witch edit. There are other edits that I’ve done parts of when I ran across them — I just have to finish them up. There’s a really
Yesterday wasn’t the greatest day for me, emotionally. Today I feel pretty crappy physically. However, I wrote both days. Before the big push I probably wouldn’t have written either day. I didn’t have a choice. I had to write. I didn’t do a lot — maybe only 30-45 minutes each day. It felt good, though,
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Like a lot of other writers, I have to write. There isn’t a choice about whether I want to write or not. When I talk about that urge, I’ve always been talking about the desire to put words onto paper, to make up stories. It’s always first drafting that I’ve needed. Until now. This week
I have three POV characters in these three novels. Yesterday, I finished the character arc edits for these characters. During the process of doing that, I also wrote a couple of the missing scenes that I needed. The character arc edit was the big edit, the one I knew would take the longest. I’m glad
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I got my dates confused. For some reason, I’d started thinking that the end of the 100 day push was the end of March, which meant I only had a month left to finish the rewrites on the novel, and there was no way in hell I was going to be able to finish the
I picked up my prescription for my migraine medicine this afternoon. I generally only get two migraines a month, so 24 pills is a year’s supply. Still. $751.99. Over $31/pill. I have insurance, so it only cost me my co-pay. I don’t know how people live without insurance. I am not looking forward to how
I’m a busy person. To some, that’s an understatement. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to fall into a writing habit that really works for me, but it has. The point is to write, or rewrite, or work on writing, every day. The point is not to write every morning at 7
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Yesterday night I took a necessary sidetrack. I came to one of the places that was missing a scene. I couldn’t really continue with the character arc edit until I’d finished adding that scene. I knew it was important. But I didn’t know why. I approached it all wrong, of course. I knew what had
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I find this fascinating. Basically, with this app and the little “square” piece of hardware that comes with the app, you can turn your iPhone into a credit/debit card reader: http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/02/square-iphone-scanner-1-dollar.php I agree that there are security concerns with this. However, if they can overcome those, this could be an amazing technology for non-profits and