It’s Saturday morning, and I’m about to start the rewrites for the day. I’m so happy to have a weekend — it’s the first one I’ve had in a couple of weeks. The plan is to write lots during the day, then go out at night. Tonight I’m going to mistymarshall‘s birthday party (Happy b-day […]
My last day of my current job with PeopleSoft (Oracle) will be March 9th. I’m going to take a week off, then on March 19th, I’m going to start work for Salesforce.com. (The Google opportunity wasn’t a good fit I’m afraid.) I’m sad to be leaving my old job and my existing boss and co-workers.
For those of you who are interested — this is what I’m filling in tonight. I did not create this — I snagged it from somewhere — possibly fandom meta had a link to it. Enjoy!
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As part of the not-writing that I’m doing on the novel before I actually begin the revisions, I need to outline what I currently have. Plus I’m doing some character sheets — one for general characterization, one for character values. (I’ll post links to them later if people are interested.) Since it’s Tuesday, that means,
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WHEEEE!!!! I just finished typing up the novel! Here’s the final, official word count: 93,702 / 93,702(100.0%) Before I start the rewrites, I’m going to spend some time thinking about the novel. I have a list of things that I already want to fix, some minor, others, not so much. But I need to think
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I know that some people don’t believe in muses, at least, not as a separate entity from their creative writing process. Me — when I’ve imagined my muse — she’s always been a fast-talking, cigarette-smoking, scotch-guzzling bitch with a broad New York accent. She’s been quiescent for most of the novel — I think she’s
I finished typing up chapter 15 today. It turned out longer than expected, coming in at around 5500 words. 83,449 / 100,000(83.4%) So if the next two chapters are both around 5000 words, that’ll bring me to 93K total. That’s actually about average for me for a first draft. I always write “short” as it
I’m going to be on a panel for RadCon about multi-culture and fiction, writing beyond mono-culture. And I realized tonight that one of the ways that I do it is through similes. I originally was just thinking that this was a cool way of breaking cliches, but it works for giving you richer culture as
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Thanks to everyone for the good wishes. Am still so very happy! Tonight (Thursday) I’m going to be at the Online coffee shop, at the corner of 14th and Pine, if anyone wants to join me. I won’t be arriving until late, say, 8 PM or so. mikigarrison? mistymarshall? bridget_coila?
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Yeap. It’s Tuesday night. Real life interfered with writing last night, so I only got about 500 words done on chapter 16. What that means is that tonight, I’ll be really focused on writing. If anyone wants to join me, I’ll be at Remedy Teas. It also means that I’ll probably finish chapter 16 tonight.
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