Sweet Progress

The extended typing project is going well and by mid-week I will have the first draft of my second novel complete. Then it’s on to the editing! I have several pieces of news to share soon. October will be devoted to editing almost exclusively. November…..that’s another story. I will be polishing and polishing and polishing [...]

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Such a neglectful blogmistress

If you wonder… no, I am not holed up in a deep dark cave writing. (Though that thought is a little bit attractive, with the exception of the lighting issues… and the creepy-crawlies.) I actually update a lot. I just don’t do it here. The best way to keep up with the latest is to [...]

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In the home stretch and feeling the burn

I counted last night. 140 = the number of hand-written pages currently comprising the vaguely named Book 2 45 = the budgeted pages left, based on content remaining (approximate) 60 = the actual number of pages left in the spiral notebook These are hand-written pages. I still haven’t typed a word. I’m crazy. I know. [...]

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Mish-mashy Timey-Wimey Update

Been a few days! Life was thrown into chaos on Thursday when work went from ‘pick your color’ to ‘BANGBANGBANG’ in less than 24 hours, as our contractor began to replace the siding on our house. In April, an F-0 (what I said) or F-1 (what the contractor said) tornado hit our house. Thankfully we [...]

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Time to go old school

I wrote Come the Shadows without any form of outlining. I knew the answer to whodunit (which, coincidentally, changed) and that’s about it. It was based on a script I wrote 3 years ago, which provided about 5% of the content of the book. The rest I wrote very organically, step by step, day by [...]

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The spiral notebook: closest ally, biggest enemy

I write in a spiral notebook. It’s my greatest strength and my greatest weakness. It feeds my creativity and my terror all at once. When I’m writing I’m ‘in the zone’ and I don’t think about anything but the next step or even the next curve of an ‘a’. I just let the ideas flow [...]

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To Blog, or To Write

Some aspects of my life don’t lend to choices. I have to take care of myself, my marriage, my son, and my job. Most of that’s enjoyable. But when it comes to other things there are choices. Such as…. Write? or Blog? For most of the time I was writing my first book I chose [...]

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