Current word count: 21,859 New words written: 966 Words til goal: 18,141 / 422 words a day til the end of September Another good writing morning. Yay! I’m at a strange part of my story for me. My characters have moved to a different world, and I haven’t created a different world before, so it has been…
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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: 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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Current word count: 16,822 Words written today: 394 Words til goal: 23,178 / 367 words a day til the end of September Additional writing: revised two chapters in first novel. Now on chapter 20 of 33. Yesterday I said that, as well as working on my new book, I have been revising my original novel,…
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If you haven’t already, check out my interview with author Chynna Laird. With four kids and studies for her B.A. in psychology, she has a lot on her plate, but still managed to write and get published two books. She’s an inspiration. If she can do it, so can we. Quick check in: Current word count: 16,428…
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Work has been crazy, so I haven’t had time to write here, but I have been writing. I did 436 words yesterday and 648 today on my book, wrapping up another chapter. The story’s moving along well, and the characters’ personalities are coming out nicely. Here’s the rest of the details: Current word count: 15,408…
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