Because I’ve been writing every day since December 24th, it feels like I’ve been doing this rewrite for longer than I have, that I’ve been on the 100 day push for a much longer time. But in real time, it’s only been a week. I keep being amazed at both how much I’ve accomplished, as […]
I was cursing madly this morning while I drove out to write. But the 100 day push has been an incredibly effective strategy to get me off my butt and working on the rewrite, every single day. I’ve finished doing this character edit in the first novel, and have started doing it in the second.
I took some time this evening, while shopping, making dinner, deciding what I was going to work on first. There are so many edits that I need to do. It came down to a choice between these two: –Doing the “make it not broke” pass on the third novel. Which is mainly writing the missing
There’s a new app that’s allowing people to match photos of people who are missing in Haiti to pictures taken during rescue attempts. (Warning — some of the rescue pictures are graphic.) Facial recognition isn’t all that, not at this point. If you have three minutes, go eyeball some pictures, see if you can make
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Neighbor C’s unit is going up on the market! It’s being sold “as is” — it needs paint and love, but it’s a great starter. If you know anyone who’s interested, please send them this link! http://locator.nwmls.com/scripts/mgrqispi.dll?APPNAME=Locator&PRGNAME=MLSLogin&ARGUMENT=I9xUF6hi%2BAmcF%2B8gU%2BqONvBrVjkoaE6d6D4A4IowoCA%3D&KeyRid=1&Include_Search_Criteria= ION — still sick. But going to look at the novels tonight, see if I can come up
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Yesterday I talked a little about how I’m approaching this revision process, the tweaks I’m making. I woke up this morning with a really bad sore throat–red, swollen, and hurts to swallow. It’s my only symptom, besides feeling like crap. But as I had most of this post finished anyway I thought I’d post it.
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I spent several hours today coming up with the start of my rewrite plan. However, it wasn’t until I started writing this LJ post that I realized I had only focused on the “what” of the rewrite — which in many ways is the easy part. “Rewrite better” isn’t an achievable goal. There’s no way
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I finished typing up the first draft of the third novel. Here’s the final, first draft, word count: –Harp of Stars is about 102,000 –Harp of Light is about 90,000 –Harp of Fire is currently 92,275 words I generally write short, second draft is generally 10-15% longer. So I do think the last one will
I’ve needed to get a new author photo taken for a while. Particularly since I’ve grown out my hair. I asked holyoutlaw to help. We spent a delightful two hours today, chatting and taking pictures. He’s posted his three favorites. Which do you like best?