Month: October 2005
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Finished Three Orange Scenes
Before me, two reds, two oranges, one yellow. Then all the green. I’m now at 120,379 words, and on page 593 of 943. Long day. But I’m getting there. Download as PDFPrint Page
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A Rethink Day on ISY
I See You started meandering on me. I could feel it turning sideways, so rather than continue, I spent this morning doing a line-per-scene for the last 24 scenes of the book. I’m not quite satisfied yet, but I have enough to keep the boat sailing in the right direction while I get the last…
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CCC — Nonfiction in Progress
Finally, years after I wrote the perennially popular Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love AND Money — (now and forever after available as a free download from this site) — I’m working on another non-fiction writing book, this one on the single-most-requested subject on this site. How to create good characters. I’m doing the…
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Hurricane Wilma Update
Just heard from my daughter. (She called via cellphone — those things are lifesavers.) They have no power, they have no running water, no phone service. The storm hit them with sustained winds of 100 miles per hour, with bursts up to 135 mph. Trees have been ripped up, gutters are down, her inlaws storage…
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Finished ISY for Today
Got my 2000 plus, finishing at 47649. Not sure this section is as good as it could be, but it’s first draft, and it’s on paper. Tomorrow, I start blowing things up — that’ll be fun. My hours are — obviously — all screwed up. Going to bed, going to see if I can get…
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And On to HAWKSPAR
Did over a thousand words on ISY today, which isn’t great, but I left myself in a good spot for tomorrow. I’m on page 553 of the HAWKSPAR revision right now, in the middle of an orange scene that had to be moved about 250 pages earlier in the book, and consequently needs a fair…
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Slow Going Today
I still haven’t finished my 2000 on ISY. Hawspar is still in my future. I’m spending a lot of time obsessively checking on the hurricane. It looks like it will be following its projected path, which means my daughter and her guy and his folks and most of our relatives and some of my friends…
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Three Wizards of Death
Hawkspar has found that her destiny is to die, and that before she dies, she will have to conquer three wizards, two of whom are already dead, but even more a threat because of that. The first binds her eyes; the second, her voyage; and the third, the life of the man she loves. It’s…
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Slogging
I’m feeling enough better today to have done a very light workout this morning, and to be writing. Of course, the writing itself hasn’t been flying. I ripped out about 2000 words of ISY, and wrote a new section to replace the point where I went wrong. Went to enter my word-count in my WIPBar,…
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Ended on Page 536
And officially not feeling good enough to do this anymore. Final word count of completed stuff, 108,808. Back tomorrow, I hope. Download as PDFPrint Page