I tried to finish the first chapter of the novel this weekend. I didn’t succeed. I wrote between 8-9000 words this week, and I’m going to need at least another 1000 to finish off this chapter. The good news is that stuff keeps happening. In the novel as well as in my life. There were […]
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Finished The Zydeco Queen and the Creole Fairy Courts this morning. Well, at least the handwritten part. I still need to type up the last three chapters. I’m discontented. I don’t care for what I’ve done. I’m not sure how to fix this. I don’t think I can just rewrite. I’m going to have to
While writing the last novel, I kept having to move events out. In the very, very rough outline, event A would occur in chapter 4. But more stuff kept happening to the characters and to the story that I would need to write about, and I’d be lucky to get event A into chapter 5,
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
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
I’ve been having problems for the last two days, meeting my word count goals. I don’t write to discover plot, I know what’s going on, basically, in terms of the story. I write to discover the emotional journey. And I kept trying to work on a scene when I didn’t know where that emotional journey
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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