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My Novels in Progress
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Tag Archives: Green Acres
Ready, Set, Go!
What’s going? My blog! It’s not exactly going anywhere, but it’s gotten a major facelift. My daughter Hanna designed the new header, and I’ve updated the theme and tweaked it good. (Thanks for your help, Mar!) This style more reflects … Continue reading
DoneDoneDone!!
Thursday afternoon I typed The End on Domino’s Game. Yes, again! There have been a lot of changes in this 3.5 version (the added .5 is because I ripped back to the beginning and started over when I was already … Continue reading
Zigging and Zagging
I’m a great believer in writing a novel from beginning to end. Any time I’ve had to insert or rearrange scenes, there are things that just don’t flow, don’t fit. But I’m not talking writing. I’m talking REwriting. And the … Continue reading
20K Down, 60-70K To Go!
On Monday morning I had 96 index cards laid out in Scrivener, a super-marked-up Word document with thousands of comment bubbles…and a blank document. On Friday morning, the Scrivener file looks pretty much the same, with a few minor tweaks. … Continue reading
Gloves on for Round Three!
How much revision/rewriting do your novels require? Over here, quite a bit. Even though I write the first draft with a loose outline, apparently I still write to discover the story instead of to record it. Totally seat-of-the-pants writing doesn’t … Continue reading
Moving On…
The timing of yesterday’s events is somewhat ironic, I think. ACFW Genesis contest results were announced around noon, and for the first time in four years, I’m not a finalist. It’s the first year I haven’t entered in the speculative … Continue reading
What is ‘The End’?
Yesterday I wrote THE END on my eighth full manuscript. But does that mean it’s ready to send to a publisher? An agent? A critique partner? None of the above. In this case, the end doesn’t mean the absolute end … Continue reading
Half Way!
These days I’m spending a lot of time BICHOK–Butt in Chair, Hands on Keyboard as I seek to get through the middle section of my current novel. This book’s current working title is simply Green Acres 1 and is projected … Continue reading
Intentional Communities
As part of my research for my Green Acres series, I’m looking at the concept of Intentional Communities. The basic definition of an intentional community or ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the … Continue reading
Keeping Busy over Here!
I’m trying to figure out how often I should blog and what I should blog about. Doesn’t help much that you all don’t comment very often! And the spam comments…shudder. Doesn’t help that I’m using the word *should* either. Does … Continue reading
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Tagged ACFW, Chloe, conference, Genesis, Green Acres, life, revision, romance, writing process
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