To give myself some motivation to keep working on the revision, I’m posting an excerpt of the novel I’m currently revising (again) to try to get it ready to query agents. Any and all critiques are welcome. This is the first eight pages of my novel Maze of Moments, a…
After a frustrating start, I’ve managed to be pretty productive tonight. I cleaned off my desk so I’d have a lot of space to spread out the manuscript printout that I’d scribbled all over…and then couldn’t find the first 27 pages. After a while I remembered (vaguely) that I had…
I rewrote the beginning of Shaper so that the first two hundred words are snappier, have less drama but more action, and hopefully get to the catalyst event quicker. How sad is it that this feels like a major accomplishment?
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…
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…
*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…
So I have some opportunities here. And as it is the last day before NaNoWriMo begins, I feel it is time to confront these matters. I have to decide what I’m going to write. Until a week and a half ago I was wibbling over lack of plottiness in my…
Well, despite the determination of Shawn Christian, the amazingly sexy star of Undercover Christmas, I managed to write a scene for Grace. I’m sure I would’ve written much more if I hadn’t watched the movie, but it was good, and I have a new Christmas classic. Ha ha, new classic,…
Still working on the NaNoWriMo novel. I passed my word count but haven’t finished telling the story yet. Unfortunately I can’t stop yawning enough to wipe away tears (from yawning, not sadness) so I have to go to bed. Probably has something to do with the Flexeril I took a…
Woohoo. Only 2,000 more words to go to make my NaNoWriMo word count. Of course, the story isn’t anywhere near finished, but that’s okay. I just saw that it’s currently snowing where I’m going tomorrow. Wah.
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