Despite my exhaustion yesterday I still wrote a little, as well as this morning. Tonight I typed everything in, finishing chapter 1. I should be writing more tonight, writing the next 1000 words, starting chapter 2. However, I’m so tired I’ve lost my enthusiasm and excitement. I’m taking that as a sign not to push […]
Wrote ~1200 words this morning. Really wanted to write more but had to go to the day job. Hopefully will do another 800 or so tonight and finish off chapter one. (I’m aiming for 4000 word chapters.) Probably little to no writing tomorrow. My goal is to finish chapters 1&2 by Friday, so I can
So. I’ve signed up for the Clarion West write-a-thon this year. My goal? A short YA novel. 60,000 words in 6 weeks. I’ve been doing some planning and plotting of said novel for the past week. Thought about it a lot tonight. I know what that first scene is. I know what the last scene
I’m hesitant to say that I’m finally well. Basically, every time I think I’m better, something comes out of left field and knocks me to my knees again. Monday, I finally stopped wheezing. I felt as though I could start moving again, start to get back my strength. Got hit Tuesday morning with some kind
I tend to approach the world with confidence. Or at least most people who know me believe that. And it’s mostly true. It isn’t that my confidence is faked — but sometimes it isn’t as complete as it appears externally. It may be squishy, easily dissolved, or even hollow in places. This weekend I received
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If you have a Facebook account, and, like me, can’t leave (family is there) and you want to make sure that Facebook is not sharing your information, go here and follow the instructions: http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/ They have a fancy Javascript that will check your Facebook settings for you. I’m pretty tech savy. I mostly have Facebook
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I was in SF last week, for training. I wrote every morning. One of the things I’m doing is summarizing the books in different ways. I already had the “pitches” for the novels — 1 paragraph short, catchy descriptions of the books. I first created longer blurbs — think back cover of a paperback —
I was very privileged to be invited to one of Don Ehlen, the Insect Safari Bugs and Beer parties. Under the cut are just a few of the pictures I took.
I have a confession to make. I didn’t write yesterday, or do anything with the novel. Technically, I didn’t write on Tuesday. But I reformatted copies of the novels, into Word and PDF, as well as print, and I emailed off versions as well as printed and put some copies into the post. I think