Writing Life

The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.

Oh Hell, I Don’t Know

So my wonderful librarian friend emailed me. She’s read several of my novels and I’ve found her to be pretty much right on target in her suggestions. (and no, her suggestions are not “it’s perfect publish it now!” ) Anyway. Email. She was thinking about my books, and decided that she really thought Taro and

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*insert evil laugh here*

This, my friends, is why it’s good to give the minions a break. Not nearly as many as they demand, no, but every now and then you’ve got to take a step back and let them play. I know how to fix that shopping scene, the one I wanted to cut though I thought was

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DSED Day 18: Can I Just Skip to the End?

So even after my big decision, I’m finding very little motivation to move on with the editing. If you had any idea how many times I’ve read these scenes, edited, fixed, poked… I’m seriously pondering cutting about 5K simply because I don’t want to read it again. Even though I still think it’s good. Yeah.

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DSED Day 18: Sanity Rears its Ugly Head

I need to come to a decision. My goal for the Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM is not working out. Mad goals are fun, but when I’m sacrificing quality for crazy, that’s a problem. Especially when it’s making me stressed and miserable. The problem isn’t my procrastinating–that’s a symptom. The fact is that when dealing

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Day…Wait, What Day Are We On?

My impressive math skills tell me day sixteen. Very good. Except not, because I should be into MS three by now… You know I’m not going to get them all done. I know I’m not going to get them all done. Why do I carry on? Because it’s a deadline. More–it’s an insane deadline. Meh.

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Day Fifteen: Return of the AUGH

My progress today would be okay, if I were not on such a tight schedule. Every day I am farther behind! But I have to do it right. No point in charging forward just for the sake of charging forward. I wonder if the “reviewing every rewritten” scene thing could go, though. Since I’m quite

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