The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.
What was I going to say?ย I don’t remember.ย Oh, now I do.ย Today was the deadline, I was to have decided if I was adding to Semantics or not.ย And the decision is–yes.ย I think it needs a wee bit more. Once the decision was made, however, I was supposed to stop working on […]
June Twenty-Ninth Read More ยป
“Can you work a little harder at being annoying?” I asked.ย A little harsh, yeah, but you have no idea what she was up to before that weary sarcasm slipped from me. “I can,” Hope answered, “if you want me to.” She’s so mine. 19,305 words.ย That’s about 600 of forward progress.ย *sigh*ย yes, Hope
I love the organic way my stories grow.ย I do think about the plots some, but not that much.ย It’s more a matter of casting my play with interesting people–then writing down what they do. BJ thinks it’s hysterical that I write that way.ย She knows how it ends before she begins.ย Bly thinks it’s
Maybe.ย Because I’ve got a significant one to report.ย Yay!! Today as I finish up, the word count for Keen is 10,288 words.ย That’s 1700 words of progress!ย I love being in the glow of a book. Poor Bly, though.ย She has no idea her roommate is about to vanish, leaving nothing but an empty
Back to the Word Count? Read More ยป
It was just one number.ย I changed one little number from a five to a four, pushing one of the defining moments in Eve’s life back a year. Then I had to change one more number, that was connected to the first number. Then I realized I’d changed the entire history of my galaxy, as
So sue me, I just can’t leave it like that.ย I will be going back.ย I didn’t even get the incoming 6th graders filed. But that’s next week.ย For now, I’m home.ย And after handling eight file-cabinets worth of files (no, not filing through eight of them, taking most of the files out, looking them
Last Day, Sort Of Read More ยป
Okay, maybe it was a silly deadline.ย I mean, 150 pages left to re-write when I had how many days to do it? But, as usual with me and a writing deadline–I’m done.ย Early.ย This is why I do deadlines. And the new total is (drumroll please)………………146,858 words! Much more manageable than 256,000, wouldn’t you
Writing Frantically Part Deux Read More ยป