I like my day job. I do. Some days less than others, but who couldn’t say that? One of the things I like about my day job is that even though I work in the software industry, it runs its releases like a machine. There are only three crunch times throughout the year. They’re the […]
Still not well. No brain to speak of. However, I’m not going to break my 100 day push. So for my writing tonight, I’m using the Word grammar checker on the third novel for 30 minutes. It’s close to brainless — very little rewriting. However, it isn’t useless. I think the grammar checker can useful
Woke up feeling craptacular this morning. I’m afraid it’s a sinus infection. What is it about Norwescon? Last year I had to cancel because I had strep throat. This year I may have to cancel from a sinus infection. *sigh*
Norwescon pre-con crud? Read More »
Uhmm — I’ve pretty much finished all the bulleted points that I had in the outline for the rewrite. I honestly didn’t think I’d get to this point until really close to the end of the 100 days. To say I’m shocked isn’t strong enough. I keep going back and looking at the list, seeing
For the most part, my life’s very good. I’m happy, healthy, I love what I do for both the day job and my passion. I always feel as though I’m living my dream, or as close to my dream as I can get at this point. Because if I’m not living my dream, then who
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I continue to make great progress with the rewrites. I finished the character edit, figured out the prologues and rewrote the epilogues, and am almost finished with the Witch edit. There are other edits that I’ve done parts of when I ran across them — I just have to finish them up. There’s a really
Yesterday wasn’t the greatest day for me, emotionally. Today I feel pretty crappy physically. However, I wrote both days. Before the big push I probably wouldn’t have written either day. I didn’t have a choice. I had to write. I didn’t do a lot — maybe only 30-45 minutes each day. It felt good, though,
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Like a lot of other writers, I have to write. There isn’t a choice about whether I want to write or not. When I talk about that urge, I’ve always been talking about the desire to put words onto paper, to make up stories. It’s always first drafting that I’ve needed. Until now. This week
I have three POV characters in these three novels. Yesterday, I finished the character arc edits for these characters. During the process of doing that, I also wrote a couple of the missing scenes that I needed. The character arc edit was the big edit, the one I knew would take the longest. I’m glad
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I got my dates confused. For some reason, I’d started thinking that the end of the 100 day push was the end of March, which meant I only had a month left to finish the rewrites on the novel, and there was no way in hell I was going to be able to finish the