1,345 words today. 70,986 total in the manuscript. You might be looking at that number and wondering why it’s so much higher than all my other numbers for the week. There’s a reason for it: I accidentally tricked myself. A Read more…
After an early morning run, which included an encounter with a tarantula and a rattlesnake (read the whole story here on Facebook), a little bit of arm-wrestling with my web host, and some good old-fashioned procrastination, I wrote 895 words. Read more…
615 words today. 68,746 total. Third day of regular progress reports. Sick of them yet? I got a little stuck this morning and had to spend too much time looking back at my outline, which I found anemic and unhelpful Read more…
626 words this morning. Better than yesterday, but fewer than what I was hoping for. Manuscript total of 68,131 words. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. – Pablo Picasso Ah, this human Read more…
430 words this morning, which isn’t a lot but it’s not shabby for a half-hour’s work. Manuscript total of 67,505. Yesterday, I shared with LT the High Performance Indicator test I came across as a result of the book I’m Read more…
While working on an assignment for grad school, I watched a short documentary on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Much to my surprise, I learned that the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was written in just under 100 days. That was Read more…
It’s July 4th. Let me wave my miniature American flag to show how grateful I am to live in the land of the free. Oh, wait. I don’t have a mini-flag. And even if I did, I might not wave Read more…
Fifty-thousand words in, and I still haven’t managed to hit the 25% mark, which means this book is due to be about 200,000 words. Where’s that grimace emoji, again?? Ah, yes, I found it. “One-hundred and twenty-thousand words,” I told Read more…
I’m sorry! It wasn’t that I forgot that I’d promised to post every Wednesday. It was that I literally did not have time. I know, I know, “I don’t have time” is the most common excuse for a dropped ball Read more…
Hello, everyone! How was the first week of May for you? With my self-imposed NaNoWriMo deadlines plus graduate school heating up, mine has been as busy as a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest. I don’t have much to say Read more…