Wordcount: zilch, nada, zero I’m too tired today and my brain was barely working today when I sat down at the computer. After 30 minutes of realizing it just wasn’t going to happen, I quit. But I do have some good news: Driving later, I put the story in my head and a fun idea…
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Current word count: 33,200 New words written: 1,317 Words til goal: 6,800 / 252 words a day til the end of September On Tuesday, I overslept and didn’t write, but the other days have been slow but I’ve kept up my goals. My day-job has been busy and frying my brain, though — hence no blog posts…
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Current word count: 27,525 New words written: 1,122 Words til goal: 12,475 / 347 words a day til the end of September I got a lot of words done this morning, but I’m working on a tricky chapter and I’m not sure how it’s turning out. We’ll see in the revision. My full word count compared to…
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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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Current word count: 17,348 Words written today: 526 Words to goal: 22,652 / 371 words a day til the end of September Additional writing: revised chapter 20 of first novel; 12 left I’m all about promoting new authors on Day By Day Writer. You’ve probably noticed that many of the authors I’ve interviewed here are…
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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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I know. I was AWOL last week. Sorry. Actually, I was in Oahu promoting the Sir Newton Color Me Hawaii book. It was an impromtu trip, so I didn’t have time to set up too many events and get good marketing around them. But I did do two retailer events and spent the rest of the…
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In my blog reading the last few days I’ve noticed a number of agents talking about people sending them query letters that are in their “do not represent” genre list, or writers sending multiple query letters after they’ve received a rejection. A few days ago, Jessica Faust at BookEnds agency posted a message entitled Please…
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Lovers of Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird book about her writing life, rush to the DVD store tomorrow. Docurama Films is bringing out Bird By Bird With Annie, a documentary (“portrait” according to the box cover) about the writer, whose Bird By Bird is often listed as one of the favorite books on writing. Look…
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