Posts Tagged ‘novel’

And It’s Done

I pushed through the first draft last weekend, after a very late Friday night and the bulk of Saturday. I even left the NaNoWriMo Meet ‘n’ Greet party to get back and home and write the ending.
No editing. At least, not yet. November is given over wholly to NaNoWriMo and [...]

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The Mouse Has Me

I seem to have developed a growing fear of the end of my novel.
When the biggest a-ha moment came to me, about a month or so ago, I could see the whole end of the novel laid out before me like I’d crested the hill and could take it all in with one sweeping, cinematic [...]

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Making Real Progress

Taking a small break to crow a bit, as all the preparatory work that I’d written long hand is finally, fantastically entered into Scrivener and with the help of Pages has also been printed into a to-go file for when I’m writing away from home. Even got all nerdy for way too long and [...]

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Note Typing a.k.a. Uninspiring Blog Post Titles

I am out and about.
First day of my weekend and I have the car. The goal this morning is to sit, sipping Chai tea latte and typing in all my notes from the manuscript build that I’ve been working on these last weeks. I have two days to get it all in and [...]

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E-Hermitage

Is it so much to want to have one week-end where I am a complete social hermit?
Every time I think I have two days to myself, suddenly this, that and the other crashes in. And I appreciate the irony that this was exactly what I was complaining about before – that I never got [...]

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January 2009 – What Worked, What Didn’t

I’m a few days late on this but, as seems to be increasingly typical, I am not getting to my computer at night after work.  More on that later ’cause I expect that I will be slightly spammier with my blog posts over the next few days. Anyway, here’s my review of my progress so far:
What [...]

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Something Update-ish

Still alive, though ill and cranky and generally of a sour frame of mind.  
But I have been writing.   Every day.  My 250 words.
*whistles innocently*
Okay, so it’s not writing on Spirit Cat, but it’s still writing.  I started another scene/chapter for that and then my brain would not work the next day, so I [...]

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Short Story verses The Novel

(Back-dated … I cheat sometimes!)
No writing today. Spent the morning and afternoon with Todd and the critters, the evening over at a friend’s house after dining at the Cafe Korea. Yum.
Thinking about short story writing. I did manage to finally clean out my laptop and main computer writing files so now they are completley organized. [...]

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