Sunday, March 13, 2016, I wrote another 1,000 words which brought me to a grand total of 50,212 words, which is a small book. I’m now officially out of novellaland and into book world. I made it yeah!! Writing 1,000 words a day, even on days that I don’t feel like it, has helped me […]
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What I did Last Night
I woke around 1 a.m. and got up. Went downstairs and wrote another 1,000 words–so now I’m done for the day. I might just kick it up a notch and try to get 2,000 words out of this day.
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I don’t make New Year’s resolutions easily. I’m better at breaking them. This year I made one December 30th to write more. There was a novel swimming around in my head that I wanted to write. So December 30th I started writing it. I didn’t keep track of how many words I was writing on […]
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These are the guidelines for submitting to this Harlequin contest: FORMATTING GUIDELINES Not sure how to set up your documents for Love Inspired Historical to submit them in the Manuscript Matchmakers pitch session? Not a problem! Here’s a cheat-sheet for how to set up every entry. **Please Note: We will review only one entry per […]
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Manuscript Matchmakers: Meet the perfect editor match for your inspirational historical romance manuscript The Love Inspired editors are thrilled to announce our newest pitch opportunity, Manuscript Matchmakers (#ManuscriptMatch). We want to fall in love with some amazing inspirational historical romance novels. If you think your book holds the key to our hearts, we encourage you […]
Continue readingSkipped a day
It wasn’t on purpose, but I skipped a day of writing. I had to take mom to a late night appointment at her doctors. After which I was tired, hungry and had a killer headache. After dropping mom off I went home and to bed. After a restful night I rose and went to work […]
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Today, we had a snow day at work. Actually we were sent home early because of the bad weather. Since I had the afternoon off (work was called at noon today), I decided to write. Yesterday, I wrote over 1,000 words to 28,464. Today, I wrote to 30,120 words. I felt better about writing almost […]
Continue reading5 Ways to become a successful writer
According to a recent article I read from Writer’s Digest there are five things everyone who wants to finish a novel draft must do. They are–as I remember them: Just do it. Don’t put it off just sit down and get something on the page. Just do it. Don’t look at a blank page start […]
Continue readingKeeping Track of Word Count
Four days ago I started keeping track of my daily word count on a calendar so I can see the progress of my novel. I find it helps keep me motivated to churn out more words/work toward the fulfillment of my novel. How do you stay motivated to write?
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Finally, today, I wrote over 1,000 words. I’m at 17,548 words, which feels pretty good this far into the process of writing a novel. I still have an aching fear in the back of my mind that says I won’t be able to get the novel over 70,000 words (more like over 40,000–the size of […]
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