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…
I’ve written 0 words so far today (don’t worry — it’s not even 8am yet!); I’m at 98,705 total for the manuscript. Tomorrow, my second semester of graduate school starts, and my “regular” schedule for student teaching begins. I’ll be at the high school five days per week (half days 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. Manuscript total: 69,641. Here’s a sentence: The Zaris Mountains were 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…
I don’t know if “Three Sentence Thursday” is actually a thing, but I decided it’s a thing today. I wanted to pick out three sentences at random from my upcoming Soldier of Dorsa (Prologue here and Chapter 1 here, plus this other random little bit here — beta, obvi) novel. Read more…