I hadn’t planned on taking such a long break from the novel. I took a week off from the day job for Mardi Gras. I actually thought I’d get some writing done. Only not so much. (I did have a WONDERFUL Mardi Gras, however.) I only finished typing up the first two chapters yesterday. They’re […]
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Note to self: You know that timer you have on your computer? That says stop working after 55 minutes and take a five minute break? EVERY TIME IT GOES OFF TOMORROW, you are taking a break. I know, I know, you’ve been using it for standing up, so you aren’t risking your health by sitting
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The rights to my three novels have reverted. I plan on producing electronic and POD versions of all of them. In order to learn the skills required to do this, I’ve started uploading some of my backlist of short fiction to Smashwords. Here are the first three. What if the northern lights casts dreams into
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I tried to finish the first chapter of the novel this weekend. I didn’t succeed. I wrote between 8-9000 words this week, and I’m going to need at least another 1000 to finish off this chapter. The good news is that stuff keeps happening. In the novel as well as in my life. There were
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I’ve started the new novel, Siren’s Call. Wrote about 1500 words today — possibly more, as I kept thinking of things I’d missed and adding notes to the pages. While I’ll be keeping track of the word count myself, I’m probably not going to post it. I found myself getting too frustrated with it with
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I know this isn’t the first time I’ve been sick since last year’s pneumonia. I had a cold at some point last year. But this is the first time I’ve been moderate-to-very sick. It started with a sore throat on Monday, and for the first 24 hours could barely manage a whisper. Then it moved
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Finished The Zydeco Queen and the Creole Fairy Courts this morning. Well, at least the handwritten part. I still need to type up the last three chapters. I’m discontented. I don’t care for what I’ve done. I’m not sure how to fix this. I don’t think I can just rewrite. I’m going to have to
While writing the last novel, I kept having to move events out. In the very, very rough outline, event A would occur in chapter 4. But more stuff kept happening to the characters and to the story that I would need to write about, and I’d be lucky to get event A into chapter 5,
Happy New Year to those who celebrate this time of year. Me — I went to a wonderful New Year’s party. Hopefully made some new friends. Had a very good time. I also have good news! Talk about starting the year right. I sold a short story to an anthology (Bewere the Night — a
As I think I’ve mentioned, I’ve been feeling stuck. Tonight, I unstuck. I have the next four days off. I’ve challenged myself to add another 10,000 words to the novel by the time I go back to the day job. I decided to go back to my old process tonight, that is, writing everything out
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