Comments on: Happy Thanksgiving!

By: Gabby

Gabby — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:01:01 +0000

Wow- congratulations! I hope some time to be at that point too (where the story is just writing itself faster than I can type). I like the name Humblebees. Makes me very curious what it’s about.

By: Gabby

Gabby — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:27:08 +0000

1744 for today. My two main characters are chatting and I don’t want to stop but football calls to me. ) Hopefully it’s good, my characters are starting to put two and two together but it’s great, they are actually getting things totally wrong and backwards.. Yay.

By: Larkk

Larkk — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:27:25 +0000

Congrats on the big finish!!
It’s also interesting to see how your other projects are coming together.

By: Gabby

Gabby — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:45:56 +0000

Hi HannaBelle, I should probably not answer but I’ve been having the same problem. Just not wanting to write or focus on the story. Right now it’s helping to just open a blank doc and do a freewrite on what I want the scene to be about and what needs to happen. For some reason it’s been motivating me to get into the scene and just get writing and move the story forward. But also, I highly recommend the freewrite process from “Becomming a Writer.” Even though they weren’t WIP proper, I tended to write little fiction stories every morning so I have a notebook of ideas to go to when I need my next story.

By: Gabby

Gabby — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:40:56 +0000

Congratulations! I’m glad you made it to “The End” (those two words are so magical).

By: Gary Townsend (a.k.a. G D Townshende)

Gary Townsend (a.k.a. G D Townshende) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:23:07 +0000

I know I’m late on the Thanksgiving well-wishing, but Happy Thanksgiving anyway, Holly! Hope the Air Force kid is doing well. I’m former Air Force, and I’ve a brother in the Air Force Reserve who’s served out in that part of the world. He’s a jet engine mechanic, though, so he’s always on the flight line. I’m told that the flight line is always very well protected.

I’ve finished that short story I was sharing about a while back (working title THE LIMNADES), and have moved on to writing another (working title HUMBLEBEE). Meanwhile, I’m now editing THE LIMNADES.

Recently, I’ve been waking up with some fabulous ideas in my head, and have sometimes had some great ideas come to me just as I lay down to go to sleep. I’ve been writing them all down. One I was able to summarize in three or four sentences. The idea that came to me today was so complex it took nearly two pages to get it written down.

I’ve also started to have the interesting experience of having my writing just pouring out of me faster than it has in the past, getting my daily goal of 1250-1350 words per day written in about 90 minutes instead of nearly 3 hours. Not sure why exactly this is happening, but I’m not arguing with the increase in productivity. It’s a welcome change.

By: HannaBelle

HannaBelle — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:20:27 +0000

Yay!!! You got to the end. I aspire to your output, but I am not there yet.

By: HannaBelle

HannaBelle — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:19:16 +0000

no word counts.

I am notecarding my various stories, trying to get back into the habit of writing.

Any suggestions what to write on days when the story is not it? I still want to write every day, even if not on THE story.

By: Teri

Teri — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:35:38 +0000

Grats on finishing!

Good luck with resurrecting your first novel.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:55:52 +0000

Friday’s words (27/11/09):
D&D: 665, the last two of which were ‘THE END’. Didn’t quite feel I ended with a flourish, but it was nice to get there regardless.
OFL: 1126
RFW: 1068
I also found time to resurrect a novel I finished (my first!) last year and partially redrafted before losing hope. After a cursory re-working I think it might yet have a chance, so I’m hoping to pick that up this week, so look out for KavI. (It was the potential for continuation of the story that inspired me to go back to it and I’m knocking ideas around for kavII and kavIII as I do the rewrite so that I can weave some plot lines in early on.) And finally, on the subject of sequels, D&DII is currently in the brainstorming stage, with some sentence-per-scene ideas down. Plot-wise, it isn’t a sequel, but it features the same ‘heroes’.