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, […]
Welcome to 2011. We had a quiet New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day here. Had some good food. Watched a movie. Today I started working on the second of my new year’s resolutions, which I’m determined I will be successful at. I’m not saying any more than that yet. I’ve been reading a number of blogs lately, and toward the end of the year, they characteristically take a look […]
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 […]
Today was a productive day. I found a timeline hole and filled it in, and fixed a character plot issue. I’m to the point where new content will supersede what people have already read. Here’s a brief taste: THE TRIP out the day before had been uneventful. She drove around town for a while, renewing her acquaintance with Portland through the windows of the car until the soft hiss of […]
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