25290 / 50000 words. 51% done! Things came together tonight. Suddenly the new direction I needed to take gelled, and I’ve got a plan again. I need to write out a lot more new plot cards, but I’m very pleased with my progress for the night, simply because I got …
Well, not really. But I’ve just noticed that the town where I was born made USA Today. The monument at the Tippecanoe Battlefield was ‘defaced’. The so-called vandals wrote “America repent” and “Tecumsehs not dead” [sic] and “Give us back our spiritual capital.” Everyone is appalled, of course…but me, I …
19358 / 50000 words. 39% done! I can’t concentrate anymore. I’m putting in The Two Towers extended edition DVD and going to bed.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton
18778 / 50000 words. 38% done! At this point I really need someone whose read what I have to discuss this stuff with, and slightlyjillian doesn’t seem to be home and astraea36 is probably not around since Ray is OMGhomeYAY!!! I have been lucky in that _lore is great for …
The last time I was at Spring Mill, I was about 10 and we were camping there. We did a LOT of camping when I was younger. We only had one car, and Mom didn’t work until I was in fifth grade, so a lot of times we would take …
I love my parents dearly, but I am looking forward to their week of vacation being over. Coming home and finding them both already here, wanting to do something, and then having the past two days off myself (as I am officially done at FL) has absolutely killed my word …
You guys! I just finished megburden’s book Northlander! It arrived in themail today, and I immediately sat down on the front porch and started reading. And I didn’t stop for three hours except for the ten minutes while I ate supper. Now, I’d already been lucky enough to read the …
It’s driving me crazy that I have done no submissions all summer. To do list: Finish the edits on The-novel-formerly-known-as-FTGGI. Find an agent to submit to. In the meantime find places to send “Inheritance” and “The Ruiner” and “A Delicate Balance” and the short story about Fin, the name of …
The biggest influence in making me a better writer has been finding people to partner with. I have a group of friends on LiveJournal who are all writers, and we formed a closed, friends-only community to share our work with each other, provide critiques, share inspiration, and challenge each other. …