Soldier of Dorsa sits steadily at 127,983 words today, or about 1,000 words more than my update from just over a week ago. I’ve come a long way (or regressed a long way) since the days when I expected myself to write 1,000 words per day at minimum. My co-worker Read more…
0 words so far written today; 126,839 total for the manuscript (which might actually be *lower* than my last update). But the good news is, this happened: Last weekend, I spent most of Saturday re-editing a holiday-ish-themed novella that was published in the charity collection Winter Hearts last year. Winter Read more…
Don’t worry, I’m not going to dive into this before I finish Soldier of Dorsa, but I there’s a slim chance I might start the prequel series before I dive into Empress of Dorsa, primarily because I might need a break between novels. Anyway, I’ve had this idea in my Read more…
It’s Monday morning. I haven’t written a word since last Wednesday. Total words today: 0. Manuscript total: 116,190. (UPDATE: 1,079 for the day, 117,269 for the manuscript.) Sigh. But it’s like this: “I haven’t even written so much as a *sentence* in weeks,” LT says to me, distraught. “Everyone always 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 a shocker. Three months to write one of the most 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 myself. “Hit your 25% mark by 30,000 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 EVER, but in this case, I literally did not have 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 other than that this week, so let’s just cut to Read more…
Well, y’all, I had a week of both self-discovery and serious self-doubt. We’ll start with the self-discovery part, and in the interest of efficiency, I’m going to copy and paste a portion of the email I sent to my writing group this past weekend: I have had a major revelation Read more…
I handed LT my iPad. “Keep this for me,” I said. “I don’t need to be around it right now.” “How long do you want me to keep it for?” LT asked. “For the rest of my spring break,” I answered (the high school where I work is on spring Read more…