Writing

Just typed up 79 words scribbled on a note at work this morning. I wrote a full page of notes last night that popped into my head as I was trying to go to sleep. I'm going to work on building some scenes out of those, and see how far I get tonight. Apparently an entire week of … [Read more...] about Scribbling in the corner…

Tonight's total: 904 words. The early part will need to be rewritten, but overall I think it's a pretty strong scene. Mike, can I have my Buffy DVDs back now? I've been a good girl! Got my quota for this weekend's writing group (if we're meeting at all), and it's not even … [Read more...] about Quota reached, want reward!

Clearly it's been too long since I wrote longhand – I can no longer estimate with any accuracy at all how long a segment is. That little scene was only 124 words. Ah, well. It's still good. … [Read more...] about Good things, small packages, yada yada

Saturday's accomplishment was a new plot twist and an 800-word synopsis of the book. I needed to write that; I just couldn't keep my brain wrapped around the overall concept because I got so lost in the nifty details. No doubt it will come in handy when it's time to market the … [Read more...] about Some writing, mostly research

Forcing myself to write before I could watch the Farscape season opener worked beautifully. I needed to get 1K done before my writing group this morning, and I did 1002 just in time to turn on the TV and settle in. This afternoon I'm going through the printouts of all my … [Read more...] about Dog and Bone

116 words tonight – though I could swear I've written this idea before. Can't find it anywhere else, though…. … [Read more...] about Deja vu

No progress to report – I've been tied up with other projects and books – but I did think up a plot twist this morning. Gotta count for something…. Last week's plot changes are still percolating. Progress will be made this week. I met with a new (to me) … [Read more...] about New Group

I had begun graphing my progress in Excel – something I picked up in someone else's newsgroup, I'm sure – but I'd let it go, and I've just now updated it for the last month (since I've faithfully recorded my word counts here). A slow but somewhat steady climb, with … [Read more...] about Scientific progress

…. which I've just written into a quick 200-word outline of the early chapters in the later storyline of the book. This is one of those ideas that really ought to have occurred to me years ago. (Yes, I've had these characters in my head, off and on, long enough that I can … [Read more...] about Inspiration and Regencies

Was ambushed by 534 new words tonight. It's kind of a short retelling of a short story I wrote a while back, which was set in the distant past of the world of the current novel. I started to write this just to remember an idea I had that might help fix that (hopelessly broken) … [Read more...] about prologues