As my busy week draws to a close a new busy week begins and then it’s a month of absolute insanity as NaNoWriMo.org is about to take over my life.
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BookCamp Vancouver 2010 was a rousing success and well worth the rush hour commute to get there and back.
Read MoreWriter’s Block
I think I have writer’s block. Not that you’d ever notice. I’m so busy I don’t have time to write.
Read MoreI’m Published Again
A few days before I left the East Coast, I received notification that one of my writing prompt pieces had been chosen for the “The Best of the Boards” in the September issue of the Toasted Cheese Literary Journal.
Read MoreTime to edit
No more procrastination. If I want my next novel up for sale in August, I have to finish my edits. So what’s all this on my dining room table you ask. Well the stuff spread out is my current novel Each chapter times 3, in some cases times 6. The stuff in the stack is from my first novel(s) The Problem with Jake and it’s young adult rewrite The Trouble with Jake.
Read MoreWhen editing gets in the way
A few of my friends have been having this same problem lately. I’m kind of glad because it means that I’m not the only one, but on the other hand, this is becoming an issue. How do you balance writing a new piece with editing an old.
Read More6400 words
It was my turn to submit something for our editing group. I had to rewrite the end of the novel I’ve been editing. When I sent my first ending to the group they called me out for it. (You might remember me blogging about how I’d written the entire novel from Hillary’s point of view and then, after she screwed up, everyone went away to fix the problem and came back to tell her about it
Read MoreA walk, sun, chocolate and writing
Start to finish today has been a great day. Even though I didn’t sleep the best last night, I was up on time and ready for action. That mid-evening coffee apparently wasn’t a good idea after all.
Read MoreThe Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
Despite the heated scorn I can already feel from some of my friends, I’ve purchased and finished the new novella by Stephenie Meyer, “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner”. I enjoyed this story more than the original series.
Read MoreEditing
Today is/was back to back editing. I still have more to go. I think I’ll hole up in my bedroom with my laptop for the evening to give myself a chance to get some work done. My brother, I’ve discovered (and probably mentioned several times already) becomes increasingly more distracting the more he tries not to be disctacting.
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