Okay, that might be a bit bright. I’m at 22,000 words on my first draft of Descent. So I’m within 10,000 of the novella’s end. This is the point in a manuscript where my writing usually speeds up. If I can get any time to write, that is. 🙂 Anyway, I know how it goes […]
Living the Dream
I’m back! It’s been kind of a rocky week. I had a blast on my mini-vacation, with all sorts of fun family activities and a little time for myself, then got back to work for one day before my kids got sick and had to stay home. So now we’re going a bit stir-crazy, but […]
Mini-Vacation Starts Today
Yay! Another little break from work. This one will be centered around several family members coming into town, most of whom we only see a few times a year. We shall gather at the pool, and over bbq, and hopefully in homes more air-conditioned than ours. Today is our first in a string of a […]
Sunday Update: Busy Summer Progress
It has been a lovely summer so far. I wish I’d been able to take a little more time off, and of course to have more time to write, but I’m telling you, there’s been lots of good stuff. And we just bought our little one her first school supplies — she starts preschool in […]
Sunday Update: Plots, Progress, and Weighty Romantic Entanglements
The first draft I started last Wednesday is progressing nicely. I’ve met my test mile of at least 500 words each day, and I’m just one hundred words from the cumulative goal of an average of 1,000 a day needed to write this novella during August. Here’s my word count since the last check-in: Wed […]
Rolling In The Deep: This Song Captures Descent’s Romantic Conflict
I love Adele. She’s stopped me in my tracks many a time. What a VOICE! As I listened to this song, it fit so well with what Descent’s character Rosa feels about Mikhail. I have the album and have nearly worn that track out. Ha! It’s a song I can’t listen to with headphones, because […]
Mid-Week Update: Descent Begins Today!
Today marks the starting line for my first draft of Descent, the fourth Children of the Sidhe novella. I can’t wait! I have a great outline, as well as a decent understanding of what happens in the fifth and final novella, so that I can keep the general course of the series on track with […]
Sunday Update: Brave (Writers & the Movie)
Yeah, I’m going to use that title. I’m feeling it, baby! Not only that; we took our three-year-old to see Brave today — her first theater experience. It was fun. A beautiful movie, with lovely music and a good mix of light-hearted tomfoolery and drama. The storyline was perfect for my girl, although it was […]
Mid-Week Update: Once More With Feeling
I’m writing today. I took the day off, with the sole purpose of going through my Queen Witch manuscript from head to toe — inserting the final scenes I’ve written, nailing the transitions, and in general making this draft as polished as possible. It will be so nice when this book is done. lol. But […]
Sunday Update: Finished Writing New Scenes!
Major accomplishment this week! I’m done writing all of the scenes I invented during my last (incredibly brutal) edit. It only took me two writing days, which was great, since that’s all I had this week. 🙂 Monday I wrote 700 words, and Friday I wrote all the way to the finish line — 1,700 […]