–I went ahead and bought a Kindle for myself for my Christmas present. After 3+ days of reading on my phone every spare minute I’m suffering from some pretty bad eye strain. –The day job continues to be a complicated distraction. –I haven’t been writing. (See day job, above.) –I only got 4 hours of […]
I’ve been far too busy the last week plus. I owe emails and work to people (like Kate) and I owe writing time to myself. Once I recover. Last week was the annual conference for the day job. Four days of insanity. This year I tried to be smart. I had purposefully not signed up
Big wheels keep on turning Read More »
The process for writing this novel is of course different than any novel I’ve written before this. A huge part of that is due to the fact that I wrote out a proposal for this novel, before I wrote the novel. Sometimes I do a brief outline — the proposal had a lot more information
I have only a few rituals involved with my spiritual practice. I rarely talk about them. One of them, though, is to say, “Thank you,” — every morning when I get up and every night when I go to bed. Sometimes they get to be habit, just a quick thanks without intent or purpose. Most
So — last night I talked about how I had been blocked, unable to get my word count in. Tonight, when I started, I did 1200 words in 40 minutes. Can you say, “On fire”? I knew you could. It took me about 2 hours to do about 2000 words total, which is actually about
I’ve been having problems for the last two days, meeting my word count goals. I don’t write to discover plot, I know what’s going on, basically, in terms of the story. I write to discover the emotional journey. And I kept trying to work on a scene when I didn’t know where that emotional journey
Back in 2005, my life imploded. I stopped writing for a while, about two years, actually. When I started writing again, I completely changed my process. I got myself back into writing by doing writing prompts. I would write by hand, and when I started doing fiction, would then type it up. For Clockwork Kingdom
One step in front of another Read More »
One of the things that I frequently do is come up with a playlist of songs that I’ll listen to possibly obsessively while I’m writing. The soundtrack from “Pirates of the Caribbean” was frequently on my list while I wrote Clockwork Kingdom. It was pirates, and fog, and ship battles, and it just set the
She’s tricksy, that one Read More »
Seriously, that’s what I feel like I’m doing half the time. I brought minimal things with me–when I left Seattle, I didn’t have a place, and I was looking at both furnished and unfurnished and I didn’t want to cart around stuff I wouldn’t end up needing. . . I ended up getting an unfurnished
Adventures in homesteading Read More »