Somewhere in the middle of writing Barfly, my next novel came to me. Normally, I would just stop what I was writing and start the next one, but I forced myself to focus on Barfly and made notes about the future WIP (work in progress) and what needed to be written and so on. Then today, another idea came to mind. Completely inspired by a … Continue reading Hello Muse
As I wrote in a previous blog entry, my goal was to write a huge chunk of Lucifer’s Angel. I’d like to report that didn’t happen. I wrote in that story. I struggled with 2000 words a night and then I went on vacation to Vegas. I came back feeling ready to go, but alas Lucifer’s Angel my achilles heel when it comes to writing … Continue reading Unattainable Isn’t Always Out of Reach
Last week, I missed my weekly writing goal by 1,893 words. It was freaking hard to get the 10,007 words that I did write. This week, I’m trying to cram 11,900 words plus the words I missed into 4 days since I will be in VIVA LAS VEGAS from 11.14 to 11.17. I say 4 days because I’m sure that this Friday will be my … Continue reading Still Moving
I didn’t want to write & I didn’t want to workout, but I did both. Wrote 1800 words. It was the hardest 1800 words I’ve written. I had all these mental notes of changes, to add, to delete, to research, and so on. I made notes of all of them and kept on writing. It’s the on reason I’m very glad that I don’t have … Continue reading Keep On Keeping On
I’ve been reading various agents, editors, publishers, writers, etc discussing NaNoWriMo. This is just an inspiration update…a feel good entry…maybe, I’ll just call this entry FEEL GOOD DRAG (stolen from a song title by Anberlin) I wrote 2100 works today. 400 more than my goal. Go me! We’ll see how tomorrow goes. I loose steam about a week or two into NaNoWriMo. Once I get … Continue reading Feel Good
1221 words written. 1 entire chapter thrown out. All that equals 1 very, very happy writer. Odd I know. I read a blog today about writing and it said “the story chooses us.” My current WIP is Lucifer’s Angel. It started from a dream I had about 10 years ago. I wrote the dream down because it was one that woke me up in the … Continue reading Once Again
So today was the start of a new agenda & goal which is technically an old agenda & goal. Confusing, I know. I did write today, scrapped every bit of words I typed last night and started over. Gave me a word count of only 200 plus today. I stared at my word count chart in disbelief. Yes technically I wrote more than 200, I … Continue reading Inspired by Stephen Fogg
Received another rejection letter today. The total is now 15 rejection letters with 1 of positive feedback. Break it down further and it’s this: 6 no responses, 9 actual rejection letters. And to break it down even further, it’s this: 8 form rejection letters and 1 personalized rejection letter. I’m sitting here listening to my friend Gareth Asher’s song “Break” and it’s kind of how … Continue reading Break
From Jeff: Without a doubt, however, your biggest strength is in your characters. I like them enough that I could probably write my own stories with them. Helen could be very, very interesting. If that is your biggest strength, I would consider your need to explain everything to be your weakness. Give your reader something to do!” I listen to everything Jeff says. I know … Continue reading Permission to Write
I am sitting and staring at a wall. Not a physical wall, but an imaginary one that is only there in fear. It’s the fear of failing or the fear of succeeding in a dream. I am so close to finishing The Dumbing Down of Love yet seem so far away. So I updated my Twitter status with that. Just to get it off my … Continue reading Encouragement