Prompt: Take a line from a song that you love or connect with. Now forget the song, and turn that line into the title or inspiration for your post. The song in question is U2’s “Unknown Caller”–a song from their No Line On The Horizon album, which constantly amazes me…
According to my novel outline, I’m 9 scenes away from finishing the novel revision. And I’m stuck at the scene that takes place right before the major showdown. I have to get Character C and Villain A to a certain physical location and set the scene for the showdown to…
I completed my backstory on Saturday, and on Sunday heard back with approval from my beta-reader. The story answered her questions, so now I have the opportunity to weave the backstory into my novel in several tiny snippets. I finished up somewhere between 21,000 and 22,000 words, which is a…
The novel revision has been on hold for a couple of weeks as I’ve been working on backstory for several of the characters. Not generic backstory like, “He had four brothers and two of them died and now he’s the heir” or “She grew up north of the mountains and…
August 2012 – Finish The Loyalty Factor revision. – Finish “Blue Watch” or “Long Way Home.” – Identify markets for short story. September 2012 – Write a short story set in Teronn. – Begin querying agents about The Loyalty Factor. – Submit finished short story. October 2012 – Continue querying…
Because I have become obsessed with the time-management side of writing, I printed out a calendar of July and marked the days I didn’t write. I wanted to see if there was a pattern. And I discovered there’s a pretty obvious pattern.
Just signed up for Camp NaNoWriMo. No idea why, except that, hey, I wrote 32K last month, so I ought to be able to write 50K this month, right? Especially since my goal is to finish the original novel revision by August 30. Let’s hope, anyway. Also, I’m signed up…
I’m a member of the inkingitout community, where we check in on a regular basis with the amount of words we’ve written. There are great conversation starters posted at the journal as well, and recent questions have been about the timing of our writing. Do we write on a daily…
*eyes desktop warily* My 4-year-old HP desktop is acting unhappy lately. It’ll boot up, I’ll start doing something, and two minutes later it just randomly shuts off and goes into the reboot cycle. O.o Or it tries to boot, then freezes and I have to do a hard reboot. *sigh*…
When I’m struggling through the nitty-gritty grind of squeezing out word after word, trying to get things just right on the page, it’s really easy to forget there’s a world out there, let alone other people who understand what I’m going through. Then I see a post from someone like…
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