Due to the upcoming holiday week/weekend, family participation in a play at a community theater (if you’re one of my Maine peeps, check out the Belfast Maskers website for ticket information!!!), and third shift workery, I probably won’t be around online too much until the beginning of December. I know how disappointing this news must [...]
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21 Nov
Rant…
…of Exhaustion, Frustration, and Some Other Word That Ends In “-tion.”
Friday night, I was told by an author I’d never heard of that her ultimate goals when she began writing were to see her book in a bookstore and to sell a lot of books. She further informed me that because her book had found an [...]
20 Nov
Ketchup post
I’ve been hideously neglectful of Da Blog, and there’s lots of stuff to catch up on.
1. NaNowriMo update:
Word count: 53,744
This means I ‘won’ NaNoWriMo. It’s actually my fourth time winning, which is very cool. (Waiting For Spring was the product of my first NaNo.) I’m not quite halfway through the story, though, and then I’ll have the editing, [...]
13 Nov
Ugh
Swine flu. I gots it. So here’s the brief NaNoWriMo update (as stolen from last night’s Facebook status update):
Word count: 35343. Crap factor: much lower than expected. Still shooting for mid-to-late summer 2010 release.
Coming soon: a rant about the nasty emails I get from irate readers on both side of the abortion issue regarding ‘Waiting For [...]
11 Nov
NaNoWriMo Update
I’ve neglected my updates for the past few days. I can’t remember which day of NaNoWriting this is. But I’m up to 27367 words, about 9000 words ahead of schedule. And for those of you who are curious, here’s an excerpt. (Chosen because it’s the closest thing to polished writing I’ve got right now.)
WARNING: If you haven’t read [...]
8 Nov
NaNoWriMo Days 6 and 7
Days 6 & 7
Well, the past two days are kind of a blur. I wrote, I did other stuff, then I wrote some more. Things are progressing well story-wise, with new characters and lots of angsty goodness and a WHOLE new way for Waiting For Spring readers to look at Rick. And my word count [...]
6 Nov
NaNoWriMo Days 4 & 5
Days 4 & 5 sort of blended together, since I actually wrote in several long spurts that started Wednesday afternoon (Day 4) and stopped at about 2am Thursday morning (Day 5). I broke it up thusly:
Day 4
Word count:
4062 / 9688
Encouragements/helps:
Understanding and supportive family who left me alone and made their own suppers.
Emotional upheaval.
Challenges and distractions to [...]
4 Nov
NaNoWriMo Days 2, 3, and 4
Day 2 (Monday):
Word count:
3913 / Total: 5626
Encouragements/helps:
A quiet room.
Knowledge that a graveyard shift was coming up, making writing on Tuesday difficult.
Challenges and distractions to overcome:
None. Great writing day!
Odd sources of inspiration:
The swaying shadows of tree branches on my curtain.
DAY 3 (Tuesday):
Word count:
0 / Total: 5626
Challenges and distractions not overcome:
Exhaustion from graveyard shift.
Voting day.
Play rehearsal.
DAY 4 [...]
2 Nov
NaNoWriMo Day 1
Yesterday was Day 1 of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). 50,000 of a novel in 30 days. I’m using it – yet again! – to write the prequel/sequel/companion to Waiting For Spring (aka Rick and Wendy’s book). That’s right…I chucked the last version. Again. This will mark the third time I’ve begun writing it. The [...]
30 Oct
Backword Interview
How much of Tess Dyer was inspired by an actual person or situation? What is my favorite sentence from Waiting For Spring? And what’s up with all of those sex scenes? The answer to these questions – and much more! – can be found in this interview, conducted by Andrew Kent (author of Spam & Eggs: [...]
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