New Words: 1,331 (Beet Down) Editing Page Count: Starting at pg 34 this week I started this year off on a very good writing “note”. Things started spiraling downhill before the pandemic was even a thing with projects sort of exploding at work in Jan/Feb, and I was sick with something I couldn’t shake probably […]
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Writing, publishing & marketing notes from Jamie DeBree & her alter egos
Current draft: MM Words today: 2666 Total words: 35,593 It’s been a good writing week! I can’t tell you how good it feels to type that. Because it’s not just that I’m getting the words down, it’s that I’ve re-started this story three times now, and finally, this time, it “feels” like I wanted it […]
Current draft: MM Words today: 2560 Total words: 32,927 I never thought I’d be looking forward to editing (in any way, shape or form), but I have to admit…I’m looking forward to tomorrow night’s long editing session. I’m getting all these words down through dictation/transcription, and for once, I find myself looking forward to fixing […]
Current draft: MM Words today: 2361 Total words: 30,367 MM is a ghost story, and it’s getting really fun to write. I’m really hoping to finish it by the end of October, because right away on Nov. 1st, I’ll be starting my novel for NaNoWriMo, and MM started as a NaNo novel two, maybe even […]
Current draft: MM Words today: 1649 Total words: 28,006 Yes, I’m still writing. It was pretty slow going there for a long time, and I had to shake things up a bit. I’m now dictating my first drafts in the car on the way to and from work…and unlike everything else I’ve tried, it’s working. […]
Weekly Word Counts TIK: 278 DD: 477 TBS: 154 BD: 0 Total: 909 Editing hours: 0 Clearly, the higher word count goals aren’t working for me, so I’m going back to basics with a standard 250 words per day goal. I’m still under a lot of the time, but getting better, and a big part […]
Weekly Word Counts TIK: 631 DD: 155 TBS: 331 BD: 0 Total: 1,117 Editing hours: 0 Last week the word counts didn’t go as planned, but something else did, so I’m still counting it as a success. I had some serious brain fog issues going on that were just unavoidable, unfortunately (should not be an […]
Weekly Word Counts TIK: 619 DD: 557 TBS: 0 BD: 0 Total: 1,176 Editing hours: 0 You may (or may not) have noticed I missed a couple week’s worth of posts. I’ve been having another ridiculous pity party centered on not being able/willing to find time to write. I do that because of course, I […]
Weekly Word Counts TIK: 568 DD: 561 TBS: 0 BD: 0 Total: 1,129 Editing hours: 0 Not a lot of progress this week, but at least it’s some. I’m trying to be more flexible with the writing times, and that seems to be working out…some of the time. But I also still have a pretty […]
Weekly Word Counts MMM/TIK: 308 DD: 251 TBS: 0 BD: 650 Total: 1,209 Editing hours: 2 Long time no update! Only two weeks, actually, but the first week I just plain forgot, and last week…well, there was a Godsmack/Shinedown concert, and yeah, I forgot again. Not that I’ve been writing particularly much lately, but still. […]