I’m going to be on a panel for RadCon about multi-culture and fiction, writing beyond mono-culture. And I realized tonight that one of the ways that I do it is through similes. I originally was just thinking that this was a cool way of breaking cliches, but it works for giving you richer culture as […]
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Thanks to everyone for the good wishes. Am still so very happy! Tonight (Thursday) I’m going to be at the Online coffee shop, at the corner of 14th and Pine, if anyone wants to join me. I won’t be arriving until late, say, 8 PM or so. mikigarrison? mistymarshall? bridget_coila?
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Yeap. It’s Tuesday night. Real life interfered with writing last night, so I only got about 500 words done on chapter 16. What that means is that tonight, I’ll be really focused on writing. If anyone wants to join me, I’ll be at Remedy Teas. It also means that I’ll probably finish chapter 16 tonight.
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I started writing chapter 16 this morning. I got the first 2000 words down. After dinner, I’m going to try for another 1000. The scene didn’t happen as I’d first imagined it. I think it’s okay, but I might need to do some rewriting. It does mean that the significant event that occurs in the
Finished hand-writing chapter 15 today. It’s 28 handwritten pages, which will turn out to be between 5000 to 6000 words long. ::dances like a crazed thing:: Tomorrow I’ll make the decision about whether I start writing chapter 16 tomorrow or if I type up chapter 15. I see reasons for going either way — just
When my TV went into the shop, I figured that I’d fall back on the train of reading a lot. Instead, I’ve cleaned, written and worked out a lot. I’ve wanted to read, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Then I realized that I just didn’t want to finish the book that
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I’ve started working out everyday, in preparation for actually starting training for my 3-day breast cancer walk that I’ll be doing in September. While I haven’t been training enough to be able to eat anything and everything that I want, I am starting to get hungry. Often. I’m going to have to figure out better
I’m here, anyone else planning on joining me? . . . Bueller? . . . (I’m at the online coffee shop, BTW. Not the tea shop.)
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Am plugging away on the next chapter. 1000 words on Monday, another 1000 on Tuesday. No writing today — I generally take Wednesdays off. But Thursday we’re meeting at the online coffee shop (14th and Pike) and I plan on getting more writing done then, as well as Friday and Saturday and Sunday and .
I finished typing up chapters 13 and 14 today. Here’s the official word count for the novel so far: 77,890 / 100,000(77.9%) Since I’m averaging about 5000 words per chapter, and I only have three chapters left, that means that the first draft of the novel is only going to be about 92,000 words or