Current word count: 19,901 New words written: 1,067 Words til goal: 20,099 / 436 words a day til the end of September I had a good writing day and made my weekend goal in one day. Yay! Hopefully I can do the same tomorrow. We’ll see. The story is coming together again now that the characters…
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Current word count: 18,834 New words written: 572 Words til goal: 21,166 / 450 words a day til the end of September This word count is actually for two days, as I didn’t get a chance to write here yesterday, and it’s lower than my goal. So I have some catching up to do this weekend.…
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Current word count: 18,262 Words written today: 267 Words til goal: 21,738 / 444 words a day til the end of September No kick up the you-know-whats for me. I knuckled down and got back to the first draft I’ve been working on. My daily word goal has risen because of my break, but I really…
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Check-in: I’m done with the picture book I was working on. Yay! I’m also reworking my query letter for my first novel and creating one for the picture book. What I’m procrastinating from is going back to my second novel. My week off from my second novel is being drawn out, not because I have…
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Check-in: Getting ready for my critique group tomorrow, I revised my novelty picture book this morning, working in the great ideas my critique group gave me two weeks ago. As I revised, I got more ideas and realized that I had been holding back on the premise of this picture book. I told myself to…
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Check-in: No writing today. As I finished my revision yesterday and have been feeling under the weather, I decided to not set my alarm and sleep in. Guess what? I woke up at 4:30, then 6:30 and got up at 7:30. So much for sleeping in. 🙂 But I haven’t been far from writing. I’ve…
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Check-in: Between yesterday and today, I finished the current revision of my first novel. Yay! Now I just need to find some beta readers for it. But my next writing goal is back onto novel number 2, which I’ll be hitting hard to still keep my goal of finishing by the end of September. Today,…
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Check-in: Another chapter and a half done on the rework of my first novel. Now, here’s a great author article to read. I loved this Washington Post article about author Elizabeth Strout, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge. Strout, the article says, lives in a “modest apartment near the East River features a view to the north of…
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Check-in: I haven’t actually written yet today, but I couldn’t get to sleep last night (for some reason Love in an Elevator kept blasting in my brain) so I got up and reworked chapter 26 to 28, which didn’t need much. After that, my eyes were feeling heavy, so to make sure they were really…
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To be honest, I don’t have any great inspiration to share today and my inspiration has been limited for a few weeks, which is why you haven’t heard from me much lately. I think I know the reason: burn out. I’m tired. My early morning writing sessions are wonderful, and I hate not having them,…
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