Here’s your daily tease: SAM AWOKE on a lumpy surface and opened her eyes to find herself lying on a pile of musty clothes scattered on a concrete floor surrounded by boxes and what looked like a rack of black and latex Goth gear. For a second, panic swelled through her, but she forced herself to be still until she could get her bearings. She had been outside the club […]
Today was a good day. I lifted the spirits of a couple of people I know. I spent the afternoon writing, and will continue this evening. Some of my best writing comes to me in the late hours. (It’s really a pain when you have to get up early the next morning, but that’s a price I’m willing to pay to see a story of my own creation unfold on […]
I wrote approximately 1800 words today. What does that mean? 1800 Words = 7 1/4 pages of text So how did I do it? Well, the cats and I hid out in my office today. Surrounded by our fiction library, I put my earphones in and cranked up Position Music’s Orchestral Series Volume 3 by Magnus Christensen and Ryan Franks. My iTunes says it’s classical music, but this is bold, […]
Priming the pump to write is about writing every day. My blog host, WordPress, has put out a challenge to all writers to do a post a day, or one per week. I don’t know what I’ll write here, but I’m planning to accept the challenge and write something in my blog every day. One of the blogs the husband and I read regularly is Whatever, the daily blog by […]
Today was Day 2 of my own personal NaNoWriMo, which to the rest of the world is National Novel Writing Month, an annual writing challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November. Of course this isn’t November, I don’t have a month to devote full time, and I already written 100,000 words of this particular novel. But the concept is sound. Day 2 went well. I’m getting a […]
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