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
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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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 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
I’m a busy person. To some, that’s an understatement. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to fall into a writing habit that really works for me, but it has. The point is to write, or rewrite, or work on writing, every day. The point is not to write every morning at 7
Your morning’s moment of “Duh!” Read More »
Yesterday night I took a necessary sidetrack. I came to one of the places that was missing a scene. I couldn’t really continue with the character arc edit until I’d finished adding that scene. I knew it was important. But I didn’t know why. I approached it all wrong, of course. I knew what had
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I wrote every day while I was in New Orleans. It was generally for an hour or so, though one day it was only 30 minutes. I’m not going to lie — it wasn’t easy to find that time, or the best work I’ve ever done. But. I did it. And that’s what counts. Without
I finished Harp of Fire this morning, the third novel in this trilogy. Or at least the handwritten part. w00t!!! The current draft of chapter 17 is approximately 4800 words, but I also realized that I forgot to include something important in the middle of the chapter, and that will absolutely push it to over