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 […]
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Writing at 2 a.m.
I’m up again writing–getting in those 1,000 words before the day actually begins. I’m digging through the snow bank of ideas looking for some gems. Some yes, others, no. It’s hard to write when the snow bank turns out to be dog piles of poo that I’m pushing from one end of the page to […]
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Last night I found I couldn’t sleep. It was 3 a.m., which dragged into 3:45 a.m. before I finally decided to get up and try my hand at writing some more on the novel. I cranked out around 500 words in about 15 minutes (it helps when you have an outline and know which direction […]
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Someone else blogged about Write or Die the timed writing program online. I tried it. I liked it and found it helpful. At the top of the Write or Die page were other helpful writing websites such as: http://editminion.com/ and http://boredmuse.com/ Neither one of these are timed so no pressure to write. Too bad Write […]
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So it was me and the leader last night at the Lost Word Writers Group at Jackson District Library in Jackson Michigan. Even though it was just the two of us I felt it was productive. We did a writing exercise about first encounters which I felt good enough about to expand and submit to […]
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Today, I wrote just over the 24,o00 word mark. I was at 22,347 on Saturday. Writing over 24,000 words is a nice surprise. I find if I write two to three pages this gives me 1,0o0 words.I really have to push myself to get in 1,000 words a day (I skipped writing Sunday). It is […]
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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