This week is the release week for not just one, but two books I am insanely excited to read. But, trying to limit my book spending, I put them both on my Christmas list. So, I will spend the next month not reading them, but eagerly anticipating them. And, if I don’t get them as [...]
Today is November 1, which means NaNoWriMo starts! How excited am I? Very much so (and possibly crazy too). I got off to a great start today – writing 2700 words on Incubus and 3500 on my NaNo book. It would be just great to keep up that pace, right?! How many of you are [...]
Progress on Incubus is still going along at a decent clip, though I will admit to cheating on my notebook a little bit this week. See, Scrivener for Windows went Beta on Monday, so of course I had to play with it. So I have spent the last few days putting my outline into Scrivener. [...]
Progress is going along quite smoothly. The further I get into this project, the more excited I get and the more I want to just write and write and write. Which means I have a problem with ignoring housework. Really, I can’t afford to do that, because I know the house will be woefully neglected [...]
For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday (wow, it’s been a while since I did one of these…), YA Highway wants to know: What are your favorite first lines? How do your own WIPs start? To be honest, I don’t usually take much stock in the first line of a book. I know how important everyone [...]
The Plot and Paper Project is going great over here. I have been plodding along at a constant, though slow, pace. I finally finished my other time-sucking project yesterday (I am talking spending 4-5 hours a day on it), so starting next week, it is full steam ahead on Incubus. With any luck, I will [...]
Update time! Incubus is going great. I really think this whole longhand thing is helping me work through whatever my problem with this book was before. I still get caught up at times and I still stress (probably because I have struggled so much in the past with this book), but for the most part [...]
Update time: Man, has it been a BUSY week! It is amazing how not working a day job sometimes doesn’t actually free up any time for me to write. I fell a little behind on my writing this week, but I took care of all the other things I needed to, so it is smooth [...]
First a quick update: I set a goal to be done with my outline by the end of August, and on the evening of August 31st, I finished it. Hurray! Then I had one very busy day and one very sick day (bleck). I didn’t get as much writing done as I would have liked [...]
On Monday, my grandparents celebrated their 385th wedding anniversary (or some big number like that). Papa Jule planned a little surprise party for Gramma Shirley for the occasion – just a lot of family getting together, but the perfect thing for her. Since he knew Bubba and I would not be in town for the [...]
