I was just reading a post by a writer who shall remain nameless. It was a really good post full of descriptions and details. Ah the details. I found myself looking at my internal watch thinking “would you please get to the point”. It’s not that I don’t enjoy details when reading…no, that’s not it. […]
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Two for One
I did it yesterday. I wrote 1,000 words in the early morning hours (around 2 a.m. when I couldn’t sleep) and then wrote another 1,000 after work in the early evening. I’m thrilled to have written 2,000 words in one day. So this puts me at just over 46,000 words. Yeah!
Continue readingWhat 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.
Continue readingNew Year’s Resolution Achieved
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 […]
Continue readingLove Inspired Historical Romance Formating
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 […]
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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Continue readingAnother 1,000 words
This morning I rose at 7:30 a.m. by 8:30 a.m. I had written 1,531 words. I wasn’t sure I would be able to pull off another 1,000 words because yesterday my character ran off crying because the man of her dreams wasn’t returning her love. Before going to bed, I thought about how she could […]
Continue readingSnow Day and another 1,000 Words
I’m determined to finish my novel in another 60 days. If I can stay on track and keep writing 1,000 words a day, I’ll make that goal of a 90,000 word novel. After which the real fun of editing begins. I am looking forward to the editing phase of the novel because that will mean […]
Continue reading30,000 words and counting
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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