Nano total: 39557
Today’s chapter was 3088. And I’m exhausted.
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Six chapters to the good.
I’m 16,582 words into the revision of Marks of Repentance now. The voice has an odd lilt to it, not like anything else I’ve ever written, but I’m not having any trouble fitting back into it for the bits I’ve added. I’ve managed to find more places to pull the metaphors better into line with…
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Why a critique group? What’s in it for me?
What benefits are there to a good online critique group? While I don’t have vast experience with these circles myself (or with their sisters, the walk-in crit groups), I think different people expect different things when they hear the term. Not every writer needs or desires a team approach. I know several fine writers who…
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The Villain
So the matchmaker novel (that needs a name) is starting to pull together. I’ve done a few character bios the last few days, playing around with the voices of the major characters in journal format. I’ve learned some interesting things about them that way, though I’m planning to write the novel in a single third…
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Good buzz on revisions
I revised two entire chapters today, for a total of over 6K. (Brings the total to about 21K). In both chapters there were extra threads that needed to be woven in that fit fairly well. In one scene, I had Cae and her fiance, Ramon, in a situation where Ramon reacted very strongly to a…
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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 to be the first in a four book romance series, so there’s more set up…
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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 work for me either. Call me a hybrid! I spent a couple of months researching…
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Nano total — 23129
Friday was unusually busy at work, so I didn’t get my scenes finished. Got things wrapped up today (my nano day off) for a two-day total of 3126.
I’m off on a three day weekend in honor of Remembrance Day, so may not have new totals to display until Tuesday. See you later!
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Tempest
Apparently switching gears was the right thing to do. I got 16 scenes jotted down in reasonable depth in just a couple hours yesterday afternoon. Today, so far, I’ve gotten 5 more, plus written down a bunch of background info on the commune. It’s like I’m not even making this stuff up. It’s all in…
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Writing moves aside…
for the afternoon, anyway. In the morning, I got 828 words on *False Perceptions* to finish the chapter I started yesterday. We’re at the place in the book where momentum is building and it’s too late to take anything back Soon everything will careen out of control. It will be fun. 😀 And then Jim…
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Free Online Writing Classes
Did you know that Barnes and Noble University offers free courses for writers and others? They run for about six weeks at a go as near as I can figure. I’ve just signed up for their Grammar Fitness course that starts in April. I figure that should make all my critiquers happy. The downside to…
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well, THAT was optimistic
Okay, so I’m not really rolling again yet. I tried to convince myself that adding the Pidaal character and beefing the subplot here would not change the story intrinsically, but it’s not working. Really I was trying to avoid re-outlining. I write much better with a road map, and I haven’t been able to convince…
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NANO complete!!
Just taking a few minutes out of my busy schedule to celebrate the *completion* of Nano. I just validated my word count at 50247. See? Now on to finish the novel, which should take the rest of the week.
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Little things
It’s amazing the things we want to find out to make a novel read believably…and how hard it is to find some of these details. I’ve spent half an hour googling trying to figure out how far a person can see out over the ocean: i.e., distance to the horizon. And here’s the answer! You’d…
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Nano total: 11344
2830 today, but there isn’t a snippet. I just squeezed the words under the time-wire and I’m not really fond of the chapter. I’m thinking too much telling, not enough showing, but figuring that out is a job for after November.
Hope you are all faring well…
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2010 Wrap-Up
Once upon a time I posted some writing goals for 2010. So, believe it or not, we’re now at the end of that year. Wow! It went very quickly. How did I do on my goals? Writing: Two complete first draft novels, currently expected to be the first Green Acres novel and a category length…
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Have you completed the first draft of a novel, short story, or play? Unsure what to do next? Maybe you’ve committed one of the 101 WORST MISTAKES writers make in their first draft. Not sure what they are? Click here and find out! You’ll need to create a FREE membership to author and teacher Holly…
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Writing moves aside…
for the afternoon, anyway. In the morning, I got 828 words on *False Perceptions* to finish the chapter I started yesterday. We’re at the place in the book where momentum is building and it’s too late to take anything back Soon everything will careen out of control. It will be fun. 😀 And then Jim…
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Outlines
I’ve been working back and forth from a Word document to notecards to a new Word document. Why? I’m not sure, but it seems to work for me. The first Word document is filled with random bits of scenes and things that I believe will happen in the Shann novel, mostly pretty sketchy. Then I…
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You’ll be glad to know…
that the guard now has a name. Hereinafter he shall be known as Chiioke. I gave in this morning and re-did the outline (again). It’s something like its fourth incarnation, and there are some serious holes coming in the climatic scenes. I know who all has to play the game for those scenes, and what…
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Back from camping
We spent four days camping along this lake in a group of nearly fifty of hubby’s extended family. There was lots of fishing, swimming, canoeing and just goofing off in the water. The water temperature was about 73 degrees Fahreheit so pleasant on these hot days. The first night I was too hot to sleep…
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Good for you, Val!
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You da man, val! LOL!
Good for you. I’m about 3000 words behind you but all in all I’m thrilled and thankful!
Love from chrisdd
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Hi, Val!
congrats! You won the free book from my blog contest… I tried emailing you through the email on your webpage, but it bounced back. So please send me your mailing address, and I’ll get the book “Real Women Scrap” by Tasra Dawson to you! -
Woohoo! Consider it sent, Sharon…
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Yaaay, VAL!!! Great job.
Oh, oh, oh! I wants to know more of the sssstorieeeee! *pleading look*
Ok, so I’ll be patient. It’s not as thought I don’t have three +1 distractions…+ another that’s full of lots of stuff that needs dusting and vacuuming.
Though…T.H.O.U.G.H.
May my inner editor regain its sight!