Author name: Leah Cutter

Word count: 691. Reason for quitting: Finished chapter 1. Hate it. Hate the whole thing. Will rewrite tomorrow. The events are correct, but the character arc needs reshaping. So probably no word count tomorrow, just a redoing of what I did today. Hope ya’ll are having a lovely, lovely day. Me? I’m finding it easier […]

As part of my carrot/stick to writing, I’m going to start posting stats here. Word count for today: 500 words Which I’m actually really happy with doing even though it’s the weekend and I should be doing more like 2000. But I *am* happy that I got something, anything, done, particularly considering that I didn’t

Started working on the new novel today. Didn’t write much, not more than a few hundred words, as well as heavily revising the few hundred words I already had.

I don’t write novels. I write chapters. Or scenes. A sentence or even a word at a time. Yeah, I have to pull back and look at big picture now and again. But I don’t write that way. I can do this when I break it down. What’s the most useful piece of writing advice

I received a letter offering me a position in the new merged company on Saturday, not a severance package. Being laid off wouldn’t have been terrible, but still being employed isn’t awful either. There are at least 14 documents I have to read through and sign – but I have a week in which to

Sorry – haven’t been around much – came down with the cold from hell that morphed into a sinus infection. I’ve completely lost my voice again. Plus I’ve been working really hard at the day job. I hope to be back soon. In the meanwhle – Mike got a long-term NASA grant – which is

Well – as some of you may have seen today – Oracle bought PeopleSoft. I’ve worked for PeopleSoft for the past 7 years, doing technical writing. Am I out of a job immediately? No. But sometime over the next year? Quite possibly. I’m not actively looking for a new job. Not yet. However, if any

Book thingy – from lots of people on my FL: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do

Kate Major, one of my Clarion classmates (Clarion West, 1997) died the evening of December 1st, after a long struggle with cancer (she’d been diagnosed in the spring.) It was not unexpected and she knew what was happening. Her daughter was with her at the end, and her mother and son and sister had been