I have been blogging for just over a week so far and, not so coincidentally, today is the first day of the second week of my second “Write a Novel in a Month” month. To write 50,000 words in February requires an average of 1,786 words a day. That means…
I wrote 2,279 words today, so I gained a little (very little) on all of that lost ground. I am fairly happy with what I’ve written, but I know it’s going to take a lot more rewriting than usual to make it good enough to make me happy. Partially that…
I spent almost the entire workday in meetings. The morning and all of lunch was taken up in a meeting with the owners and sales staff, trying to get them excited and educated about something new we have developed. Some of them got it, some didn’t. It doesn’t seem complicated…
I had a bit of deja vu tonight. Mom called at 4:00 to tell me that Maverick had disappeared. I flashed back to Christmas Adam (the day before Christmas Eve… you know, Adam came before Eve) when I went to bring the dogs in and found Maverick in the neighbor’s…
Writing has been moving really slowly on this book since the end of November. When I first sat down at the beginning of November and started this book, I spent almost a week plotting it out, section by section, chapter by chapter. The only problem is, I left the final…
Wizard or Witch – Magic users like you are generally very quiet and intelligent. You spend most of your time by yourself studying ancient texts. In a battle, you prefer to stay away from the action, and cast your spells from a safe distance. Your power is in your magic,…
I did not make much progress on my book today. I managed about 1,000 words and I needed to do about 3-4,000 to get back on track. I will have to work harder tomorrow. I might have gotten more done, but I got sidetracked by a super cool website. It’s…
For the last few years… well, more than a few, actually… I have been producing a sometimes daily ezine that I call Giggles & Grins. In fact, I have been doing this for so long that I can’t be sure how long it has been, more than 9 years, I…
Here are the first two pages of my book. What do you think? Am I wasting my time? “Milady? Pardon me, milady.” Deana hurried to catch up with the townswoman crossing the otherwise deserted street. She had never visited Rakart’ver before, and she had expected to see folk running errands…
In November I participated in NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. I wrote just over 50,000 words in one month. The problem is that 50,000 words, though pretty impressive for a slacker like me, does not a complete book make. Since November I have only added 6,000 words to that total,…
