I just finished the first draft of The Hostage Heart! I literally could scream, I’m so excited. Yeah. I’m seriously thrilled. And, because I’m very organized and stats-based like this, here are the final stats for the first draft of HH. I’m sure I missed something somewhere along the way, but it’s pretty accurate. I […]
First Draft Finished! Read More »
Notice how I haven’t done a progress report for awhile? That’s because there hasn’t been any progress to note. Oh sure. I’ve pretended to be working on The Hostage Heart. I re-read all 75k and made a detailed chapter outline. (Hopefully that will help with the I-can’t-remember-if-I-already-wrote-this-scene problem I was having.) I pretended to think
Weekly Progress Report, Or How I Overcame Writer’s Block Read More »
I feel like, after a five year hiatus from writing, I’m re-learning the craft all over again. I also feel like I am a much different writer than I used to be. Five years doesn’t seem like a lot, but when it’s the difference between 17 and 22 it’s significant. A lot has happened in
Critique Groups and Editing Read More »
On Thursday we had our first meeting of a brand-new critique group. My old critique group dissolved awhile back after about a year and a half of slowly dying, and me and one of the members from that group have been trying to get something put together ever since. Thursday was the much-anticipated (for me,
When I was into writing before–you know, pre- five year break–I had a backbone of steel when it came to accepting critiques. You literally could say anything to me in a critique, and as long as it was constructive I would eat it up. I LOVED critiques. I lived for them. When most writers were
In Which I Start Another WIP Read More »
My current WIP, The Hostage Heart, is a story very near and dear to my heart. I have been working on it for 7 years and am currently on my 7th version of the story (I thought it was 5th, but I just checked and it’s 7th). When I say “version” I mean each story
Write What You Want to Write Read More »
So I decided to participate in Julie Coulter Bellon’s JumpStart WriMo. I guess it’s technically NaNoWriMo who does a NaNoWriMo for June (since supposedly this is a better time for teacher’s to write than November…don’t you mean a better time for practically the entire world?). Well, I’m not planning on writing an entire novel in
