Comments on: Words. No Words. But back to work.

By: Cecelia

Cecelia — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:59:40 +0000

Oh, what a month December was! But I’m back. It is Jan 7, nearly 11 pm. Snowing in the Ohio valley. I re-vamped my work space, moved my desk, bought a new desk lamp, new paper, notebooks, rearranged my supplies. I’m ready. All I need to do now is write. I plan to start the 250 words a day again tomorrow. I was making such progress when I was doing that. Why did I stop? Oh, yeah, Christmas and traveling and eating and baking and shopping and wrapping and decorating. So now I’m back, broke and alone in the snow. What else is there for me to do now but sit down and face my blank computer screen? 250 words, tomorrow I embrace you once more!

By: EliseInAZ

EliseInAZ — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:05:15 +0000

ARGGGHHHH!
As I was saying, like Khena, I experienced somewhat of a letdown after NaNo. It was so much fun to write something totally different, without pressure that it had to be wonderful, and let my muse play with outrageous ideas, the WIP I was working on just doesn’t appeal to me any more.
Before I started that story, I had a different plot in mind for the same cast of characters. I’ve decided to explore plot 1 for a while and see if it’s the story I really want to write.
I’ve also decided to start over from Lesson 1 on HtTS and work through the course with whatever my next novel idea is. I’m going to give myself the first two months of 2010 to work on lessons and play with the alternate plot idea before buckling down to write the next book.

By: EliseInAZ

EliseInAZ — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:59:58 +0000

Like Khena,

By: The Pencil Neck

The Pencil Neck — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:51:26 +0000

1016 words.

With their engines dead, power shut off to everything but life support, the spaceship flying out of control through space, and pirates about to board, The Princess ran down and grabbed the Engineer out of her Jump bunk to get everything back on line. The Executive Officer, sure that The Princess is a pirate plant, attacks her but The Engineer defends the Princess. When the loud clang reverberates through the ship, The Princess realizes that it’s too late to get the engines running and tries to get the XO and the Engineer to follow her to the Armory to get weapons to fight for their ship. They don’t follow her. And the door won’t open. Insufficient privileges. She tries to contact the Captain on the Bridge, but a Pirate answers. She races to the Engine room trying to figure out something she can do. And she’s captured. She wakes up with the crew, the Engineer has joined (and was working for) the Pirates and the Pirates are asking The Princess to join them on a conditional basis because The Engineer vouches for her. She accepts the offer.

Been a busy week. Had my best friend in for a few days for a “writer’s retreat” sort of thing before the holidays. Lots of work on my HTRYN. I’m glad this is starting back up. I missed it.

By: Lisa R

Lisa R — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:22:52 +0000

I had a rocky December with all the holiday shopping and preparations. Last week I finally was able to start working once again. I have been able to get over 7K for words. I was hoping chapter 17 would end my book, but I am now on chapter 18. Hoping it will end soon….

By: Megs - Scattered Bits

Megs - Scattered Bits — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:15:02 +0000

Looking forward to that New Year’s Resolution!

By: Megs

Megs — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:14:38 +0000

I have sacrificed my current novel WIP on the altar of my revision for HTRYN, BUT the drabbles are coming—2 of them yesterday, and I wrote 1800 words on a side story as well as two and a half blog posts for a little over 2000 words.

Slow and steady again. And that’s enough.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:59:13 +0000

I haven’t written anything in so long…I feel terrible stuck in limbo between book one (which is pending revision in a month) and book two (which is still in the final stages of plotting). I’m thinking I’m just going to deal with what I have plotted so far and go for it. Things will work out by the time I get to where I need to be. Right now I need to sit down and write. That is by far the best cure in the world for restlessness.

By: Cayleigh

Cayleigh — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:24:43 +0000

I was without a computer for most of the past week, but I got ’bout 8000 words done, way more than my normal daily quota. I usually aim for about a thousand a day, but with winter break I’ve been getting a lot more.

I also started up a short story all about changelings.

By: HannaBelle

HannaBelle — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:03:03 +0000

Finished the website, waiting on a 3rd party vendor to make corrections to the reservations part. Need to make some cosmetic fixes. In case you are interested in what has consumed me the last month or so …
http://www.sanssoucihotel.com

As for my OWN creative interests and writing, I am still on break and will be back on track starting next week.