Thursday tea!
Yes! There will be Thursday tea tonight! I don’t know how much writing I’ll get done, but I’ll be there for a while. I plan on journaling and maybe doing a writing prompt.
Family pictures
I haven’t read LJ in about a week, my place is a mess, I have no food in the house, etc. There are a million things for me to do. So I’m posting to LJ, of course! The following are some pictures I took with my phone while I was in Mpls visiting my family.
More stuff about my dad
Last night my brothers and I sat around and typed up some stuff about my father, to give to the minister for the service on Wednesday. I thought I’d share it with ya’ll. The list at the end is just what we could think of off the tops of our heads — there are more
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Just stuff
I didn’t write yesterday (Sunday). I wrote on Saturday, but I wrote myself into a corner, and changed the world in a way that I don’t think actually works. So I thought about stuff on Sunday, and am going to change it back. Sunday I didn’t go to writing at the mall — I slept
Progress this weekend
I finished chapter 11 this weekend. It’s close to 5000 words long. I had some problems with this chapter. The characters kept wanting to break away, escape. I finally figured out what I needed to do. At the end of the chapter I gave the characters some hope. I’d beaten them down so hard, they
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emotional-driven characters
I wrote the first 1000 words of the next chapter, chapter 11. Felt really good. I love the conflict that’s about to come up. I stopped even though I knew exactly what is going to happen next. This will make it fairly easy to just slide into writing again. — I was thinking about writing
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More and more
I finished typing up chapter ten tonight. I had a bad scene in that chapter, and I knew it when I wrote it. But tonight, I dropped it and wrote a new scene instead. The chapter is a little short, but I’m not worried. Total typed word count for the novel so far: Either tomorrow
Norwescon report
I was at Norwescon this weekend. I was impressed by the level of conversations generated by the panels I attended. I had a great time, met lots of new people. When I wasn’t attending panels, I was generally in the bar, or in the Green Room, hanging out with people.