The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.
I made a yummy dinner with lots of vegetables in it tonight. “You are what you eat,” explains the rest of my evening. Well, it’s not that bad. I did send the first chapter of Flame to Race, and she’s very happy. (Yay!!) She asked for a bit more description, though, and I allowed that […]
I’ve really about had it with editing. I want to write! But what I need to write now, needs heavy editing first. What I had of the first draft of Flame came to 15,366 words. I’ve already cut about 600. I love how that tightened up the first chapter! But it’s Joss that is beating
I’m working on getting the rest of my old manuscript into the computer. A lot of it, to be honest, stinks. That’s not really surprising, as I wrote it a long time ago. Before Hope was born. Before I even met Chris, I think. But, stinky or not, I’m putting it all in the computer.
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All right. Time for a new plan. I’ve mentioned where I run into trouble before. Writing along happily when suddenly a plot issue whacks me between the eyes and I’m staggering and stumped both. I HATE when that happens! After repeated analyses, I have determined this is what happens when I jump into a book
Not even half an inch of snow, and the whole city freaks out. But that’s okay. School started three hours late, hardly anyone was there, I was able to work with barely any interruptions… I had a ton more work, yes. But it’s the interruptions that make the difference. I got a LOT done today.
We’ve got snow! On the ground! In Tucson! Ahem. Yes. Excuse me. In other news, Gandalf died today. Yeah, okay, I’m giddy. I finished editing Taro finally! The one-pass revision thing worked pretty well, though I did stall for a bit. I hate to think how long that would have taken without the program! Really,
I remember once ranting that people rold me to take a break between books and how I didn’t want to. Seems it doesn’t matter what I want. I’m stuck in the middle of a break whether I want it or not. I just can’t get going again. Nothing I have tried has helped. Ah well.