I have three cats. Two of which are situated on me. One is licking it’s back on my left leg while the other is sleeping in my zip-up jacket. It’s hard to write with cats on me, but they obviously missed me while I was at work today and so I let them stay. I […]
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Keeping 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?
Continue reading1,000 Words
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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Three hundred words feels more like the Peter, Paul and Mary song with 500 miles in the lyrics. Meaning 300 words written feels like I’ve walked 500 miles–whew! I’m beat. I did get another page written so for that I can celebrate. I was aiming for 1,000 words tonight, but several things stand in the […]
Continue readingSitting Down to Write
I sat down to write tonight not because I was feeling especially inspired or that I had something to write about, but because I was craving writing. So I just kicked out over 1,000 words on the historical inspirational romance novel I’m writing without feeling the tiniest bit inspired. Even so, I churned out some […]
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I’m not sure it is a goal, but I’d like to write everyday. Today was an exception. I haven’t written today. I like to think that the next scene I write is in the cooker. The cooker being my mind. I haven’t fully formed where I’m going next (even though I still have that outline, […]
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Writing is hard work. I wrote my first inspirational historical romance novella in 15 days. It just seemed to flow from my fingers. It also helped that I had no clue how to write a romance and so had no mental constraints as to what to include or exclude in the story. Now that I’m […]
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