I woke up this morning 20 minutes before my alarm went off. Didn’t even consider going back to sleep — just laid there and thought about story stuff. Yesterday I didn’t finish the last scene of a chapter because I wasn’t sure what needed to happen there. Now, I’m not convinced I need that scene […]

Yesterday I was very bad. I got up, took myself to the coffee shop in the snow storm, then signed onto AIM because I was worried about a friend and I wanted to see if she was okay. Then I proceeded to get trapped chatting, and didn’t end up writing a word. Today I was

Quick novel stuff: 500 words, and it was just flowing and I *really* wish I didn’t have to go to the day job today because I’d probably just take a break and write 500 more. But I need to run reports every Friday morning, so can’t just take off. May run the reports and run

No writing this AM — too little sleep, too much upset, too many cramps. I will be leading one of the novel writing workshops at WisCon this year, as I have for the last couple of years. The same thing has happened this year that has happened for the last couple of years, so I

Today was a *good* writing day. Might be because I’m fully caffeinated — I don’t know. Or it might be because I wrote what I needed to write. Yesterday, I thought all I had a paragraph or so to do before I would reach the next portion of the scene, that is, the part I

I took yesterday off. When my alarm went off (I’d left it on because I’m an optimist) I fell back asleep without realizing it, so having that permission to sleep in was the right thing to do. Still — it felt odd, wrong somehow, to not be writing in the morning. I fiddled around some,

The writing was a lot harder today. I think in part it’s because I’m so tired — I managed 4 hours of sleep. Maybe. Though I had some coffee this morning, the caffeine was pretty ineffective against my wall of tiredness. Still, managed 500 words. The end was a lot easier than the beginning. I’m

It’s Saturday — I slept in late, then took myself to the coffee shop. Rewrote the last chapter — didn’t require much work — added another 200 words or so there. Then I started the new chapter — did a full character analysis and plotted it out then wrote the first 500 words. I know

I actually got impatient this morning going through my FL on LJ. Not because people weren’t saying interesting things, but because I wanted to write. *Needed* to write. ::sits and marvels for a moment:: You know how long it’s been since I’ve felt that *urge*? Where if I don’t sit down and get those words

Did 500 words — have to go start the day job. Need to start on time today — otherwise I think I’d stay and write another 500. Also — GIP! It snowed here last night — probably 6″ of really wet snow. It came down in huge flakes. This morning all the trees and bushes