My life in a nutshell: The holidays were *fantastic*. Fun and full of warmth and love and the best I’ve had in a long, long time. When I came back to Seattle I came down with the stomach flu. Ended up not going anywhere for New Year’s eve. Then the day job started with its […]
*waves* Hi all! I know, I’ve disappeared again. I’m hoping to be around a lot more starting in January — on getting back to the writing in January and getting a life back in January and all like that. . .
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Yes, there’s been some novel progress while I’ve been vacationing — over 1000 words. This has been good. Not a lot, but hey, I’m on vacation, damn it! *G* Have you ever done the Myers Briggs thing for any of your characters? I did the languages of love thing, and that taught me a lot
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Sorry — no writing update. Have been working in the kitchen instead. My tile came in so this past weekend I tiled the countertops and the backsplash. It was a lot of work. I am extremely pleased with the results. Monday I grouted. Tuesday I caulked. This morning, Wednesday, I cleaned. Maybe tomorrow I can
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There’s actually been progress — just didn’t post. Tuesday I didn’t write — didn’t have time between sleeping late and physical therapy at 8 AM and a meeting for the day job at 9:30. I did do a lot of writing on both yesterday and today (Wednesday and Thursday) — about 400 new words per
Not a lot to report this morning — just 100 words or so. But did more polishing on chapter 1. Most of the new words were for chapter 2, which also got some polishing. Chapter 2 is really short — more like an interlude than a real chapter — so I’m thinking I’ll start rewriting
Added another 400 words to chapter one, plus a ton of rewriting. I am very pleased with what I’ve done, how the novel is progressing again. I took myself out to breakfast this morning and spent a lot of time journalling about the novel. (FYI — I really think this place could become a Sunday
Yeap — still working on the novel. Everyday since Wednesday so far. So today — 500 words added to Chapter 1, with lots of rewriting of the existing words as well. I’m seeing so many problems in the first draft. For example, I need to do more rewriting to Chapter 1 — the end isn’t