Not yet recovered. A few more tips. If registration is 8-11 am, don’t show up at 11:30. It’s lovely your dog was having puppies, congratulations, but the people you need to see are now scattered to the four winds, and will not be collected again until Tuesday morning at 8. Yes, I said Tuesday. Two […]
Can’t write, brain dead. But here are some tips for registering your child in school. If we ask for a birth certificate, that’s what we need. Not a baptismal certificate, and not a birth announcement you cut out of the paper. And it’s the student’s we want, not yours. You cannot register your brother’s neighbor’s
Well, I did it. I tortured my character, for three horrible pages. I hate every word of it. But it’s right. When I look at the people in my book, at who they really are, I can’t believe I didn’t realize it before. What happened to him had to happen, unless I want to put
It’s a good thing I developed my confidence as a writer a long time ago. I’ve gotten a lot of suggestions for improving my manuscript today, all but one from people who’ve never read my work. 913 pages is not automatically bad, folks! Though I’m grateful no one has come down that hard on my
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It’s formatted, it’s all in one file, it’s fiddled with and edited and fixed, and it is–hold on to your hats–it is 913 pages. Really. 246,635 words. Oh my God. I need to go to bed, I go back to work tomorrow, and I have to be there in nine hours. But I can’t. I
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I don’t know why I’m like this, so don’t ask. But I just need to torture my characters! Please note, not want, I need to torture them. I’m not that sick. Case in point–Donte, main character in the next book. Orphan, street-wise con-man in-the-making, some confidence, lots of bravado, quick brain and a quick mouth.
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Okay, I’m sorry already. I kept hitting TAB to indent while copying the free-write, and that put the cursor to “save and publish” and then when I hit the space bar, it would do it. I thought just finishing it, then updating, would solve the problem, I didn’t check to see if it did. So