I’m going to the write-in at the 56th and Lafayette Starbucks tonight. I’ve never done one of these before, but since I fell behind last night, I decided it would be a good idea. Heh. Actually I wanted to do one last year but didn’t ever make it happen. This …
4349 / 50000 words. 9% done! I actually wrote about 3500 of those yesterday in the car on the way home from vacation. Thank goodness someone else was driving! LOL Today I wrote the rest in the carpool on the way home. I tried to write more when I got …
So I had been planning to write the fourth book in the Regent’s Castle series this year for NaNo. This would involve lots of research into Illinois history, because I’m planning to weave in white settlement, Native American threads, and European ideas of Faerie, and hopefully along the way come …
Why is it that whenever I am at my day job, I get all excited to work on the novel…and that excitement seems to be killed by the hour-long commute at the end of the day? I sometimes write at lunch, but the conditions around my coworkers aren’t conducive for …
WC: 1,093 Scenes: >1 LOL! I’m finally really getting to the nitty-gritty of the novel revision. I’ve pretty much completed my line-by-line copy editing, and now I have some scenes to go back and fill in. I’ve got note cards for them all, I know where they go, I know …
“Writer’s block is a common malady. Most people (especially those who don’t write) don’t understand it. And many writers don’t understand it, either. If you understand how and why something works, you are halfway to solving your problem. So I propose now to remove the mystery surrounding writer’s block. Ready?
*cue hysterical laughter* Sometimes it seems like I’ll do anything to avoid writing, whether subconsciously or not. For the past few weeks I’ve been on a crusade against dust kitties and unused junk in the house. A couple of weeks ago I got a new Dirt Devil vacuum and have …
I haven’t actually read any books yet this year! I have joined Goodreads.com though. My profile is here if any of you feel like joining. larinzia has inspired me to try to keep a better list, but it probably won’t happen. LOL Books read in 2009 Gone for Good – …
I keep wanting to finish revising my novel and submit it…and I keep not revising it. I stare at the file, I flip to LJ and wonder why no one has updated, I stare at the file, I play in Photoshop for a while, I stare at the file, I …