A Link Worth Visiting
I just found Flogging the Quill thanks to Pat Loomis. This entry Story as River is about the right way to start a story, and is very interesting. Check it out!
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The Fleeting Hope of NaNo
Once I’d heard of the annual craziness that is National Novel Writing Month, it took me a couple of years to feel ready to jump into the challenge of writing 50,000 words in one month. In 2004 I joined, writing the first draft of a YA fantasy spoof, Quest To Be Queen. And yes, I…
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And a Happy New Year to you all
Tomorrow morning bright and early I get back to work, both literally and literally. I’ve enjoyed a two week vacation, but I suppose one can say it is now over. What have I been doing? For starters, I have been having Christmas without my kids. That was sad for me, but they both were able…
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In case you were worried
I finished the detour chapter and things are pretty much back on track, albeit far richer for the coming-to-life the characters have recently displayed. Shann and Taafa are back in each other’s company, relationship somewhat bruised. That’s as it should be. You can’t let things get too easy for them this early in the book…
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Quest Update
Quest to be Queen now has an entirely new opening scene of 1316 words. And lest any of us get too excited, it’s taken me nearly a week to pull that many words together. Today I got sidetracked researching titles of royalty while I finetuned Cecil’s full name: His Royal Highness The Crown Prince Cecil,…
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Still alive!
Nine days of writing (less one sick day in which I did nothing useful) has netted me about 19K. I’m still on a decent track, if I can average 2600 a day. Today I did 3300, so it’s doable. The story is fun, contemporariness notwithstanding. I have been finding many entertaining ways to make my…
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Started again at the beginning
I have to laugh that I thought I’d cut words with all the rewriting of the first fifteen pages. Not so much. Sure I cut a scene. I also added one. According to the over all word count once I’d shuffled my Word doc back into Scrivener, I added about 500 words with a honkin’…
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