Getting my post in earlier today. Woke up early and got a good hour of writing in, another four pages for the new story. But now, the story is starting to come together. I still haven’t reached the point in the story that I had originally envisioned. But, as I was writing today, more of…
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Again checking in late in the day, but again reporting about an hour of writing this morning, as part of my unofficial participation in National Novel Writing Month. I stuck with the new story this morning, and again the words flowed out. It’s strange; I approach it every morning with trepidation because I know that…
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Checking in a little late today, but I can report for my National Novel Writing Month goals that I got up and wrote for about an hour this morning. The good news is that the words were flowing, but not with my novel edit. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I started a new story today,…
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As promised in my last post, I’m checking in today to mark my revising progress this November, in conjunction with National Novel Writing Month. I started a little late in November, so this is Day 2 for me. I’ll go through to Dec. 2 instead of ending on Nov. 30. Anyway, good news, I’m on…
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I was feeling very unmotivated recently (as you can probably see by the lack of posts on this blog — I apologize), perhaps because of the darker mornings, perhaps because of the ever-coming work in my day job. I don’t know that it was any one thing. I don’t think it’s ever any one thing.…
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In my last post, I said I was getting back to a good writing schedule since the hurricane. Well, let me change that to I’m trying to get back to a good writing schedule. This past week was pretty good. I wrote every morning except one. And then this morning, despite good intentions, I haven’t…
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I’m always saying that it’s best to write every day, because if you don’t, you can lose where you were in the story. But a break can sometimes do you good too. After Hurrican Ike went through here and we lost power for a week, getting back to writing, to waking up early every morning…
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Sorry I’ve been an absent blogger, but today is our first day with power after Hurricane Ike rolled through the Galveston and Houston areas a week ago. The power came on last night to much hooting and hollering in the neighborhood. There are still many without power and even water, so our prayers are with…
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I emailed a question to agent Kate Schafer’s “Ask Daphne” blog and Daphne answered last Monday, Labor Day (I know, it has taken me ages to get around to blogging about this — but I did work on my novel every morning last week, so that’s something). My question was about prologues, whether to include…
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My revision is coming along. I’m pleased to be able to report that I woke up early every morning this week and worked on the revision. I’m now about two-thirds through, and I’ve surprised myself many times when I’ve found new and better ways of doing scenes just by pushing away my apprehension of scraping…
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