Happy New Year to those who celebrate this time of year. Me — I went to a wonderful New Year’s party. Hopefully made some new friends. Had a very good time. I also have good news! Talk about starting the year right. I sold a short story to an anthology (Bewere the Night — a […]
As I think I’ve mentioned, I’ve been feeling stuck. Tonight, I unstuck. I have the next four days off. I’ve challenged myself to add another 10,000 words to the novel by the time I go back to the day job. I decided to go back to my old process tonight, that is, writing everything out
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This afternoon while I was walking I finally figured out why I’ve been unable to make forward progress in the novel, why I’ve been stuck rewriting. On the one hand, I’m frustrated that it’s taken me so long to make this connection. I’ve been stuck for close to three weeks now. On the other hand,
The process for writing this novel is of course different than any novel I’ve written before this. A huge part of that is due to the fact that I wrote out a proposal for this novel, before I wrote the novel. Sometimes I do a brief outline — the proposal had a lot more information
So — last night I talked about how I had been blocked, unable to get my word count in. Tonight, when I started, I did 1200 words in 40 minutes. Can you say, “On fire”? I knew you could. It took me about 2 hours to do about 2000 words total, which is actually about
Back in 2005, my life imploded. I stopped writing for a while, about two years, actually. When I started writing again, I completely changed my process. I got myself back into writing by doing writing prompts. I would write by hand, and when I started doing fiction, would then type it up. For Clockwork Kingdom
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I picked up my keys this morning. Kept grinning because I couldn’t believe it — I’m here! I’m going to be living here! In this amazing, oh so special city! I did allow myself a purchase today — my first pair of replacement earrings. I’d felt so naked without any earrings. They were expensive, but
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I don’t know how much progress I’ve made this week. I think I’ve done 9000 words. We’re flying out today, and I always write in airports, so I think I’ll be close. I haven’t typed any of it yet, which is one of the reasons why I’m uncertain of the word count. This would be
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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So the posting every day in November only lasted, what, 6 days? Honestly, that was a bit longer than I expected. I’m not good at doing something every day. Every other day generally works just fine for me. I’m going to continue to make the effort to post every day however. I didn’t write yesterday.