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 […]
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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 […]
Mid-Week Update: Back to Business
Ever have that feeling you need a vacation from your vacation? That’s the way it hit me today as I returned to work, with the house looking like a clothes/toys bomb went off, and far too little sleep. I married off my dear friend on Saturday, and it was truly an amazing day. My husband […]
Mid-Week Update: Queen Witch Coming Together
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 […]
Mid-Week Update: Exciting Progress!
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 […]
Sunday Update: Solid Start to Queen Witch
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 […]
Sunday Update: A Fun Week!
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 […]