WOOHOO!!! I have revised my graphs down to 50k instead of 75k, because I’m going to keep hoping for 75k but right now I just want to catch up with where I should be for 50. I made a lot of progress tonight! Just over 4300 words, and if I …
So I’ve been stalled here for the past four days: I did all kinds of plotting on Friday. I scratched out about 10 words Saturday. Didn’t even try Sunday. Didn’t try last night. Gave the novel to microgirl8225, who’s been awesome at kicking me back into gear in the past. …
Whew! Thanks to wordwars with microgirl8225, mingsmommy, kyrdwyn, cuspofqueens, and severity_softly, I was able to add a LOT of words tonight. I’m back above where I need to be to get my 50,000 in. I’ve been using 75k as my target, but if I went with 50k my graph would …
My NaNo tip for the day: When in doubt, burn someone’s house down. You learn all kinds of things about a character when their house is on fire. I am still feeling upbeat about this novel and loving these characters. But I really really need to learn that surfing LJ, …
Managed my word count and Criminal Minds both. Introduced the love interest, who threw me a curveball plotwise. And now I really need to go to bed. I hope this is still funny.
Not bad, but not great. I still made forward motion, and I definitely got a better handle on Jason and Martin, who are secondary characters to Chloe. I decided to keep the first person POV, because that really gives Chloe a lot of her voice. Plus it’s sort of the …
I’m pretty happy. I did a lot of dicking around early in the evening, and this is after a 4:30 dental appointment that took forever (first cleaning in four years, but no cavities, hurrah!) and picking up windows at the hardware store. So I have the first two scenes written, …
Been fiddling around at the NaNoWriMo website today, and I write the synopsis for my planned NaNo novel. Thought I’d share it here just for fun: Chloe is Catholic, a cop, and conventional, not necessarily in that order. But when a run-of-the-mill burglary arrest goes bad, she ends up dead. …
I’ve got a huge long write-up of the Writers Police Academy I need to post, but in the meantime, I just want to register my excitement about NaNoWriMo tonight. I’ve been working on the main character since last week, and during the weekend at WPA I got some great ideas. …
I’ve edited this thing again. Now I’m happier with the query letter than I am the novel! Illinois native Zeva Couran is really tired of the starving artist shtick. She still loves the craft of pottery; it’s the starving she has a problem with. When she’s attacked in the street …