I feel like I’ve reached a major milestone as a writer tonight. I’m a little over 23k words in my current novel draft, and I’ve decided to start over. As in, completely rewrite it, from scratch. Since I started the draft, I’ve been feeling like something’s not right. The tone is off. The vibe I’m […]
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Category: Writer’s Notes
Weekly Word Counts MMM: 1,452 TL: 498 TPR: 0 Poetry: 0 The Dry Rain (editing): 0 National Novel Writing Month ended last week, after I’d already thrown in the proverbial towel a week before. I used to be willing to do whatever it took to win, but these days, my health is just too important […]
Weekly Word Counts Novel draft: N/A Short prose: (too lazy to add it up…next week?) Poetry: N/A Editing hours: A few? No post last week due to…new bookshelves! Hooray for new book storage! Progress is happening, slowly but surely…not that you’d know it by my word counts, eh? Part of my progress for the past […]
Weekly Word Counts Novel draft: 0 Short prose: ? Poetry: N/A Editing hours: 0 This week’s been a little hit and miss for writing, due to my trying to get more sleep and having to rearrange my writing schedule in order to do that. I have gotten some new words down, obviously, but not nearly […]
Weekly Word Counts Novel draft: 0 Short prose: 2,105 Poetry: N/A Editing progress: none The novel draft count probably won’t go up much this month, as my goal is to edit the novel drafts I have done, and then start a new one for NaNoWriMo on November 1st. I will count any new words written […]
Weekly Word Counts Novel draft: 0 Short prose: 1459 (approx) Poetry: 66 Editing hours: N/A So…finally remembering to update here. I know. But a lot of weekends I’m doing housework right up until 1am, and I barely have time to get my BSB blog and my main Variety Pages blog updated, much less anything else. […]
Weekly Word Counts Novel draft: 655 Short prose: 1025 Poetry: 106 Editing hours: N/A It was another somewhat tough writing week last week…mostly because I was struggling with whether or not I should continue the draft I’m working on as it is, or find a somewhat quick ending for it and put it out of […]
Weekly Word Counts Novel draft: 794 Short prose: 233 Poetry: 80 Editing hours: N/A Last week was pretty much a fail for writing (no sense in beating around the bush, eh?). I barely got my serial chapter done on time, started but didn’t finish my prompt story, and was writing the prompt poem late Friday […]
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin Weekly Word Counts Novel draft: 803 Short prose: 1161 Poetry: 0 Editing hours: N/A I’ve been thinking a lot about layers in fiction lately. And until I started thinking about this (I read some articles and […]
Weekly accountability. It’s a good thing for people like yours truly who are prone to severe procrastination and work best on tight deadlines. So, I’m going to try to update this blog once weekly again starting…today, and hopefully next week I’ll have word counts to share as well. I’m sort of transitioning between writing programs […]