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.…
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.…
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.…
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 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 rewrite in that time.…
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.…
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 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.…
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 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.…