There is more crazy to come. But I don’t have to tell you that. 🙂 I’m hearing lots of chatter from writers finishing up their NaNo 50,000 — if that’s you, way to go!! What a major accomplishment! My own writing has been progressing VERY slowly the past two weeks. I am about one-third of […]
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Mid-Week Update: Time to Prioritize
There are some stretches of life that burst at the seams with to-do lists, calendar items, and event after event after event. For me, this is one of those stretches. The next six weeks are bound to be incredibly hectic. I knew this was coming. The timing of several fairly major things was uncertain until […]
Sunday Update: Welcome to November
This is the time of year when the calendar goes from “Is nobody celebrating the holidays this year?” to “Good lord, some notice would have been nice!” At least in my family that’s the way it goes. My hubby and I are big on family. We like to make it to as many events as […]
Mid-Week Update: I’m Not, I Repeat NOT, Doing NaNo
NaNoWriMos are hearty souls, and somewhat insane. Tomorrow the madness begins for 2012. November is National Novel Writing Month — a month where crazy folks around the globe set a deranged goal of writing a 50,000 word novel in one month! That’s 1,667 words per day for all 30 days of the month. The truly […]
Mid-Week Update: Taking Flight
Hello again, fellow ROWers. Hope it’s been a great week for you. I haven’t been up to much writing related, and probably won’t be until the weekend. At that point I’m going to incorporate the comments from one beta reader. I’ll probably be hearing from the others within the next week or so. I did […]
Round of Words Goals Post
Update 1/30/14: This old post seems to be a big entry point to my blog. Click here for the most recent content. Hello there, and welcome to the final quarter of 2012! Can you believe it? The date is rockin’ my world these days…I can’t believe how time is flying. Anyway, on to my goals […]
Final ROW80 Check-In! Can You Believe That?!?
This is my first post in September. So, that’s not awesome. I haven’t known what to say. I’ve also been terrible about making rounds to any of my buddies’ blogs. To be honest, I still don’t feel like posting, but I know I’m going to get an email or two if I don’t pop my […]
Mid-Week Update: Crying Over Spilled Characters
Do you ever make yourself cry with something you’re writing? I wrote a scene today that had me bawling. It spilled out really fast — I wrote 550 words in 20 minutes before taking a short break, that was the emotional part, and then came back a while later and wrote another 750 in about […]
Sunday Update: Nearing the Finish Line
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 […]
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 […]