I read CJ Cherryh’s writing blog regularly, and I’ve decided to do something similar with mine. So here are the totals, since I started tracking words, instead of pages: 11/24/04 17,192 words 11/25/04 19,345 11/26/04 20,181 11/27/04 22,403 11/28/04 22,597 (so sue me!) 12/4/04 24,554 And as of 18:57 on 12/5/04, 25,953. And that’s not […]
Since yesterday morning, Donte’s story is 2000 words closer to completion. Okay, 1957 words closer, for those of you with something stuck somewhere private. 24,554 glorious words total, taking poor Donte to the depths of hell. I plan to bring him back–but that part isn’t written yet. Guess I should go write it. 😀 In
Just in case anyone was wondering. It hasn’t been a particularly bad day or anything, just long, and I want to go home. I want to go home and write. Well, first I want to put my slippers on, and drink something warm. Then I want to maybe (Maybe!) hang ONE string of Christmas lights–just
So far the experiment is a failure. I’m hanging in there, though. It seemed like a good idea. Hope has always been told that my office is “the quiet room,” so as long as it’s been an office, I’ve been training her to behave in here. (Training, I said. I didn’t say I’d succeeded.) So.
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Okay, when I watched it, it was Battle of the Planets. And when I see it now, I wince. How could I have loved it so? But there was a time when 7 a.m. every Sunday, found me creeping downstairs to beat the tv into submission, trying valiantly to capture that channel that could be
I’m tracking my manuscript online. It’s fun, but what I really need, is to be able to track it once it arrives at DAW. As in: 12/1/04 Logged In, 2:27 pm 12/2/04, not yet opened 12/3/04, still not opened 12/17/04, taken home by first reader, not yet opened. 12/18/04, 5:10 p.m. first reader’s date cancelled,
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All right, call it prayer or call it spells, the power of positive thinking or the warped emissions of a deranged mind, but I’m calling on all of you who have ever enjoyed so much as a sentence of my writing, to direct some energy toward my manuscript being accepted. It is, even as you