Writing Life

I believe the saying is, do what you love and you’ll never work a day? I’m up.  A little over six hours after I went to bed, (I know I said 0030 last night, but it was more like 0148 before I actually lay down) and I’m back, ready and raring to go. *yawn*  Okay, […]

It’s past midnight.  I paid the rent, cleaned house, fed the kid, and dealt with animals. I also edited five scenes of Taro, and then got wrapped up in conlanging.  (CONstructing a LANguage) That is so much fun!  I’m not playing, btw, even though it looks that way.  (just because I’m having fun.  *pout*)  Some

I feel like this vacation is taking forever.  Not that I’m complaining!   Damn, but it feels good to be accomplishing something. You guessed it, I’m editing again.  I was stuck last night, but this morning I tried combining two problem scenes, hacking off anything that stuck out after the crash, and came out happy.  (my

durned lack of progress… So here’s Friday’s evening progress report, posted to Saturday because it’s after midnight. And the report is…barely anything.  Had to go shopping, had to drop in on the chat I scheduled ’cause my Yahoo group was growing apart…bleh. But it was necessary stuff.  And I did edit one scene, and come

Wow!  I got through…eighteen pages, comprising seven scenes today.  (actually eight.  One I removed completely.  I’ve never done that before!) That’s almost a tenth of my novel.  And this time I know I’m doing what I need to do.  Why?  Because there are scribbles all over the pages, in bright blue and pink ink! Here’s

Reporting in seems to be helping me keep on track.  So I’ll continue to do it. I got the entire MS broken into scenes.  I’m printing it out with page breaks.  I also made a checklist sheet.  And now I’m taking  both stacks to McDonald’s, where I can work in peace while Hope goes and

No springy. So not springy, in fact, that I didn’t get up till 0900. Eeps. But now I’m up. And I’m well rested. And it’s raining. That, my friends, is a fine combination for writing. For editing? We’ll just have to see. I realized last night, though–I got through forty-three pages yesterday. That’s nearly a