Current word count: 8,453 Words written today: 710 Words to goal: 41,547/462 per day til end of September I woke up too late to write yesterday, so had two days of no writing. It made me determined to get up early this morning, and I rolled out of bed a little after 5. Ugg! I’m now…
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No new word count for me today. When I sat down at my computer early this morning, I discovered that my automatic scan had picked up a virus, a trojan horse, to be exact. Yay! (read that with dripping sarcasm) So, my story had to wait while I banished the damn virus from my harddrive,…
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Current word count: 7,743 Words written today: 949 Words to goal: 42,257 / 340 per day til end of September They say great minds think alike. Not to say I’m necessarily a great mind (hey, the phrase is more fitting to the subject matter), but yesterday morning I posted on this blog that I was going…
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With a full-time job and family, it can be hard to make sure writing is given its time, especially if you’re not a “working” writer, i.e. getting paid, with deadlines. So, for me, setting goals can help keep you going and see your progress. Yesterday, I decided I wanted to finish my new novel by…
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With query letters going out for my novel, it’s time to start a new manuscript. No rest! No waiting! We’re writers, and writers write. So, this morning I got up early and created a new shortcut on my desktop for a new story folder. (I keep all my story ideas in separate folders within my…
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As I was doing more research on agents yesterday, I ran across a thread on the AbsoluteWrite.com message boards. If you haven’t been on these boards before, they can be very handy. I was searching for information about an agent who doesn’t give interviews and doesn’t have any kind of web presence, and on the…
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I did it! I’ve send off my first submissions for my novel. Queries went out to agents this morning and to two editors I met at the SCBWI Houston conference. I’ll let you know the results. As I was finishing up these submissions, I was doing some more final research on the agents and came…
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If you haven’t read a Terry Pratchett book, stop reading this, run to your nearest bookstore, buy one and spend the rest of the day devouring it. His books are hilarious, thought-provoking and all around wonderful. I just looked up his website this morning and found out that he has been diagnosed with early onset…
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A friend of mine’s second book is debuting on Aug. 25, and Random House has issued a fun trailer. The book, Homer’s Odyssey by Gwen Cooper, is about Gwen’s cat, who has no eyes and manages to roam around as though he has no handicap at all. In the video, Gwen talks about how this adorable…
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For anyone interested in writing, reading blogs about writing can help in many ways. As well as gaining useful information about the craft of writing and the publishing industry, reading blogs also can help inspire writers and remind us that we’re not alone. I became an avid writing-blog reader when I got serious about wanting…
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