Let me start by saying that I love my new house. Fall is here, the leaves are changing, the air is crisp, and I cannot say how much I adore watching the season’s approach from my backyard. I do not regret buying my place, no matter how much chaos my finances are in currently. However, […]
I have two lovelies today! First, I have new fiction posted! The third story in the Baker’s Dozen challenge. Devil? Angel? Gabriella has lived all her life following other people’s plans, using their definitions of her body, allowing them to judge her abilities. Finally, though, Gabriella is ready to take matters into her own hands.
Tonight I “finished” the third story. I like where the story went, how it wraps up. However, the start of the story doesn’t point at that ending. I wrote this story out by hand. I have a couple of days to type it up. I suspect I’ll be doing a lot of redrafting along the
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I started the next story. Only got about 1500 words done on it. I’m somewhat disappointed with myself for not getting more done. It’s the weekend, I have the time, I should be writing a lot. On the other hand, it was difficult to start tonight. I even told myself I didn’t have to write
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I finished the second story last night. I edited it today, and published it. It’s available for free for the next week here on the challenge page. It is also available on Smashwords for $.99. I will post the links to the Amazon and Barnes & Nobel versions when they’re available. When Sarah finds a
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Sooo — I finished the second story. Or at least I got to the end of it. Is it the best thing I’ve ever written? Ah, hell no. Is it at least not bad enough that I feel as though I can post it? Yes. I’ll print it, read it out loud, clean it up
Yes, I’m still doing my Baker’s Dozen challenge. I wrote for two days on a story that I couldn’t really get into shape, and so had to change, start writing a different story, one that I believe I’ll be able to finish by Friday. What happened with the first one? Two things. 1–I know it’s
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Wrote about 1500 words on the new story tonight. Did about 1000 last night, which is actually more than it seems because I wrote the start of this story three times by hand before I finally typed it up. It keeps fighting me — switching between a memoir and a first-person story. I keep running
I put up “Hell By Any Other Name” this afternoon. You’ll find the story here for free until I finish the next one. It’s already made it through the Smashwords meatgrinder, and you’ll find it for $.99 here. Where this story came from: I started this story last Saturday. I’d been talking with someone about
I don’t want to say that I missed the mark. I didn’t. I finished the story tonight — all 7300 words of it. Instead, I’m moving the mark. I could format the story and put it online tonight. But I think it’s more important that I read it through one more time when I’m awake