I finished the fourth short story for the Baker’s Dozen challenge! Twyla learned early how to fight. The kids knew she was different, but she figured that was just her African-American dad and her Japanese mom. Now she learns just how different she is: she’s not even human. How will she balance all
The path to finishing this week’s story has an interesting arc. (And by finished I mean the hand-written draft. I will still take tomorrow and Friday to type it up.) I wrote the first 1000 words on Sunday. Had to run at the beginning 3 times, so it actually took me about 2 hours just
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I have two lovelies today! First, I have new fiction posted! The third story in the Baker’s Dozen challenge. Devil? Angel? Gabriella has lived all her life following other people’s plans, using their definitions of her body, allowing them to judge her abilities. Finally, though, Gabriella is ready to take matters into her own hands.
Tonight I “finished” the third story. I like where the story went, how it wraps up. However, the start of the story doesn’t point at that ending. I wrote this story out by hand. I have a couple of days to type it up. I suspect I’ll be doing a lot of redrafting along the
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I started the next story. Only got about 1500 words done on it. I’m somewhat disappointed with myself for not getting more done. It’s the weekend, I have the time, I should be writing a lot. On the other hand, it was difficult to start tonight. I even told myself I didn’t have to write
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Sooo — I finished the second story. Or at least I got to the end of it. Is it the best thing I’ve ever written? Ah, hell no. Is it at least not bad enough that I feel as though I can post it? Yes. I’ll print it, read it out loud, clean it up
Yes, I’m still doing my Baker’s Dozen challenge. I wrote for two days on a story that I couldn’t really get into shape, and so had to change, start writing a different story, one that I believe I’ll be able to finish by Friday. What happened with the first one? Two things. 1–I know it’s
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Wrote about 1500 words on the new story tonight. Did about 1000 last night, which is actually more than it seems because I wrote the start of this story three times by hand before I finally typed it up. It keeps fighting me — switching between a memoir and a first-person story. I keep running
I don’t want to say that I missed the mark. I didn’t. I finished the story tonight — all 7300 words of it. Instead, I’m moving the mark. I could format the story and put it online tonight. But I think it’s more important that I read it through one more time when I’m awake
The bad news is that I’m only at around 5500 words typed for the story. The good news is that the story isn’t much longer, only maybe another 1500 words before I’m finished. I’m still going to try to get it up for Friday, but it might be Saturday, and that’s okay. I’m already starting
I can see the vultures Read More »