Success! I had a very productive Sunday. I wrote 10 pages of my middle-grade novel, including finishing the climactic chapter and writing the first half of the last chapter of the book. All I have left is the second half of the chapter and the epilogue. (The book has a prologue, so the epilogue will wrap…
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I’m still having ups and downs with my climactic scene, but yesterday, I felt as thought I had a bit of a break-through. Every so often, you run into a section of whatever you’re writing that you don’t feel as well as other sections. It’s more difficult to get your head around, more difficult to…
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Yesterday I wrote a sentence. That’s it, just one sentence. It wasn’t beause I didn’t want to write. I was tired — I’m always tired 🙂 — but that wasn’t it, either. It was because I was resisting my next step. I’m at the point in my story where I have to write the big climactic scene,…
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Tom Colvin has an interesting post on his Becoming a Writer Seriously blog. Called “Writing For an Audience of One,” the post suggests that instead of trying to write for the masses, to write for “success,” we instead aim to write passionately for an audience of one. Think of that one person who would be…
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Got up a little late this morning, at 7am instead of 6 because my tired brain didn’t even register that the alarm was going off until 6:30. But, despite the late start, I managed to whip out four pages before my husband got up. Some days, the words flow, the story zips along at the tips…
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A friend sent me one of those long emails filled with funny pics and captions of animals doing human things. I thought a few were quite appropriate for us. Enjoy: This is us when we’re seeking inspiration. This is us with writer’s block. This is us with severe writer’s block. This is us after a…
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First post, an introduction. I’m like most aspiring novelists: busy. Juggling a day-job/first career, housework, cooking, life in general can be exhausting. But the amazing thing about writing is not the stringing together of words to make sentences — well, that too — but the characters, who talk to you when you’re walking the dog, shout…
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