Join my mailing list for monthly updates! Sign me up!
It’s Independence Day! Let’s celebrate! Are you doing fireworks this year? It’s been years since I bought a single firework. For one, I just can’t afford to do something literally one step away from lighting my five-dollar bills on fire. For another, I’ve been pregnant or had babies for the past four summers — which […]
It turns out I’m quite satisfied with the way this draft is progressing. Fear is such a pesky beast. I’m happy to say I’ve been looking mine straight in the face and continuing on my chosen course anyway. So there, beasty fear. (Note: I’m talking about the fear of complete and utter failure, not being […]
Part One of Queen Witch is done! It’s so hard to measure progress in revision, so I’m looking both at changes in total word count, and where I am in the manuscript. I’m at 11,200 words of cleaned up and revised manuscript. Yippee! That’s 2,900 words further along than Sunday’s count. However, my total word count […]
The first 8,300 words of Queen Witch are revised and edited. I could almost hear these pages squeak, they were so clean. I’d been worried about the start of the novel — beginnings always confound me — but I think I actually did a great job here. That’s the exciting part… Now for the hard […]
Short update today, as I’m vacationing with the fam on the Oregon coast. Getting right into it: By Friday night, I’d finished dissecting my first draft of the fantasy novel Queen Witch. I know what needs to be added and where. I believe there are about 15,000 words to write, along with revising as I […]
Hello again! I hope your weather has been as nice as mine. Spring is ripe. Lilacs, my favorite spring flower, are blooming and filling the air with their lovely scent. I’ve been spending a fair amount of time in the backyard with my girls; blowing bubbles, drawing with sidewalk chalk, and playing on the play […]
My singular goal is paying off. I know where I need to focus my attention, and my plan for Queen Witch is unfolding before my eyes. Have I said before that I love my brain? Oh, come on. I know I’ve said it before. Trusty smooth engine makes so many decisions while I’m not even […]
Hi there. I’m late for the Wednesday Round of Words check in, but going to post an update anyway, since I didn’t get around to any author business on Easter, even posting to my blog. I’ve had so much fun brainstorming about what my fantasy novel is missing! I have pages of new notes…now I’ll […]
Hello there! So happy to be back for my fourth round of ROW80, the writing challenge that knows you have a life. The past two rounds I’ve shot way too high. Although I’m making a ton of progress, my lofty goals are making me feel more and more behind. So it’s time for a reality […]
I can’t believe Round 1 is at an end! Crazy how time flies. For those of you who haven’t heard of Round of Words in 80 Days, it’s a writing challenge where writers set their own measurable goals four times a year, and cheer each other on while we reach for them. Over the last […]