ALL ME: Writing & Interviews
Self Doubts and a Whole lot of Research
My first draft, and synopsis is finished! Now it’s time for me to go back and make sure my plot and police proceedure lines up. I feel a bit overwhelmed with all the research that is in front of me. Maybe I should have researched everything first, but if I did I’d never finish the…
I Just Have to SHOUT!
It is finished!!! 51, 383!!! THE END!! And 52 days to spare!!!
Stifled Momentum
Yesterday I was on a writing roll. After a week of emotionally bland writing, I found my grove. My characters let loose on their emotions and I sailed through the black moment, quickly and passionately. Today the momentum has stopped. I feel like I’m just coughing up words on a blank page again, devoid of…
Slow and Steady
Someone told me slow and steady finishes a novel. I’m trying it out this week. Today I wrote 1518 words. Cleaned up a few plot points and plotted out the next couple of chapters. I’m at 35,000 words. I’m shooting for 60,000 and hoping to do it in less than a month. That’s 1,000 words…
10,052
It’s 3:22 on a Sunday afternoon and my creative juices have run dry. I kind of cheated on the last 80 words trying to make my 10,000 goal. They’re not really complete sentences, but at least the scene is complete and I really have to think about what happens next. It’s probably a good idea…
8,256
9:46 pm By the way, never made it to the morgue. Stopped off at the coffee shop first! Good Night!
Maybe I should I call it quits?
I just wrote the strangest scene in a crematory with a weird guy that looks like Ch*rles M*nson. (* is used so people googling the guy won’t find my site!) My guy is harmless in my story, but soooo strange. Don’t know if I’ll have to cut the scene out later, but it was soooo…
7,574 and Counting
Last night was productive and today I’ve written 4,774 words and the night is still young. It’s amazing what a little time to sit down and write can do for me. The story is coming faster than I can type, though I’m sure I’ll have to go back and iron out the details and plotting.…
Word Count and Counting
I’m at 17,717 words on my cozy mystery which should end up being close to 70,000. I’m making slow progress, but at least it’s progress. I took the advice of Randy Ingermanson and allowed my self to be bad. My last couple of chapters have been bad! But at least the skeleton of the story…
Some Lessons Take Longer to Learn
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