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My Novels in Progress
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Tag Archives: writing process
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
Write What You Know
When I was a kid, I started quite a few stories that I never finished. That’s partly because I had no clue what went into making stories, but it’s also because I wrote about things that sounded enchanting to me, … Continue reading
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Tagged Domino's Game, Joy Comes in the Morning, research, writing process
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Serious Writers at Work
This has been a crazy busy week with not a single word of fiction written, edited, or even (sadly) thought about. Unless you count thinking about not thinking about it for this blog post. ANYway… One of the things that’s … 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
Closing in on The End
At an estimated 15,000 words from the end of my current novel, I’m still loving the process I outlined in
Critiquer’s Role
The role of a critiquer isn’t always the same. In many groups, novels are critted a chapter every week or so. That’s helpful for some issues, but not so much for over-arching story issues. My personal favorite way of giving–and … Continue reading
Navel-Gazing Scenes
The past few weeks I’ve been pushing on word count on the Green Acres 1 novel to the detriment of the fact that I haven’t gotten my ACFW Genesis contest entries in yet. Deadline is ticking! I’d had both sets … Continue reading
