Manuscript update: Current word count is 13,842. It’s coming along. A new young adult/middle grade writers group has started up in my area, and I went to my first meeting last Saturday and will definitely be going back. The second meeting of the new group, Saturday’s was focused on prioritizing techniques so we can all…
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Manuscript update: Current word count is 12,621. Still going slower than I would have liked (I way behind to make my goal of finishing the book by the end of this month), because I’ve been working late hours on www.discdisc.com, but it’s moving along, and that’s the important thing. Blogger Mother Reader recently wrote about…
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Manuscript update: Current word count is 10,791. Wrote 1,247 words since Thursday. It’s going … slowly, but going. Coming up to an exciting part in the story, so that’s fun. Today is the start of Children’s Book Week. Yay! It’s so awesome that there’s a special week celebrating children’s books. Books are amazing for so…
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Today, I’m welcoming Frances Foster to DayByDayWriter. Frances is publisher of Frances Foster Books, with Farrar Strauss Giroux Books for Young Readers and editor of The Best Last Days of Summer, by Valerie Hobbs. This is the 10th book of Valerie’s that Frances has edited. A little about The Best Last Days of Summer, and…
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One of the things I love best about this industry is how people come together to help others. Earlier today, I posted about some writerly auctions going on to raise money for diabetes research. Now I’ve got another for you. A bunch of writers have organized an auction to raise funds for flood relief in…
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Manuscript update: Writing has been slow as my husband has been sick and I’ve been distracted, but it’s coming. Current word count is 9,544, only 607 words more than my last post. My goal of being finished by the end of this month is looking unlikely, but no worries. Onwards… First, I’m participating in author…
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Manuscript update: I’m at 8,937 words, 1,723 words more than my last post, which was five days ago, so I’m way below my goal of 1,025 words a day. Sigh. To be finished by the end of this month, I have to write 1,150 a days. Don’t know that that’s going to happen, but we’ll…
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Manuscript update: After two pretty good writing sessions, I’m up to 7,214 words, so 2,260 in the last two days. Wow, that’s actually better than I thought. Got to write 1,025 words per day to make my goal of finishing by the end of May. Phew! We’ll see. Back in March, I told you that…
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Manuscript update: 4,954 words. Had a pretty good session yesterday. Today, I’m procrastinating with this blog post. 🙂 But then I’ll knuckle down. I think I’m behind if I want to meet my goal of finishing the first draft by the end of May. QueryTracker is hosting a pitch contest today with literary agent Chris…
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Manuscript update: I’m at 4,276 words and need to write 1,000 words a day to make my goal of finishing by the end of May. Onward… I’m catching up on some blog reading — when I should be working on that 1,000 words for my book — and I found Cec Murphy‘s first two posts…
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