Another late post. Busy day today. But it was a good writing morning for day 12 of my unofficial participation in National Novel Writing Month. It didn’t start out so well. I got up, planted myself in front of the computer, wrote a sentence, and thought, “I have no idea where I’m going with this…
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Late late post today, as I worked late in my day job and almost forgot to check in. But the good news is that my unofficial participation in National Novel Writing Month is progressing fine. My novel revision is still going well, slowly, but well. I’m figuring out this middle part bit by bit, trying some…
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These days seem to be flying by. I can’t believe it’s already day 10 of my unofficial participation in National Novel Writing Month. Another late night (they’re going to be the death of me — or my writing; no, not my writing), but I still got up at the usual time and sleepily wrote. It…
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Yes! The writer’s block with my novel scene finally broke this morning. The absence did it good, I guess. In day 9 of my unofficial participation in National Novel Writing Month, I got up early and finished the revised scene I’ve been having problems with. And this version reads much better and fits with the story much…
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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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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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I found my novel revision floundering a bit. As I said in my last blog post, I’ve been hesitating moving too far forward because I could only read five pages every two weeks at my critique group and I valued their feedback. But, I realized that if I wait for that, it’ll take a couple…
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My middle-grade novel revision is moving along, but not as quickly as I’d like. Part of the reason is that I’m editing faster than my critique group meetings. Sounds weird, I know, but I’ll explain. You see, we meet twice a month and can take up to five pages to each meeting. After each meeting,…
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Being a member of a good critique group is like gold for up and coming writers. I am blessed with a great group of talented and insightful people who help me see problems or even places in my story or writing that I can do better. They push me to be the best I can…
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