No more on taxes. All I have to do with this stuff now is put it in a box and send it to my accountant. I’m so glad to have it finished. So no more moping from me, and no more listening to moping for you. Tomorrow I start into the new second and third… Continue reading My eyes are bleeding, but I’m done
Category: Create A Plot Clinic
Taxes, Green Magic, and Plot Clinic
I forgot—just flat-out forgot—one huge source of receipts: Stuff I bought via the internet, and for which I received internet receipts. All the other stuff is done, but I’m now going through right at 2000 messages in three separate accounts, looking for everything I spent via the web and dragging them all into their own… Continue reading Taxes, Green Magic, and Plot Clinic
So now that I’m done…
Okay. The Mac sending mail sound has just echoed across the computer, which means the finished Ruby Key is on its way to my agent, Robin. I’m pretty wiped out, but very happy with the book. It wrapped at 63,000 words, which was well within my target zone, the new ending worked beautifully, (though I… Continue reading So now that I’m done…
Plot Clinic Outline
I needed a break from reading my own squished, squiggled, handwriting doing type-in on The Ruby Key, so I took about half an hour and outlined the plot clinic. I know this isn’t going to make huge amounts of sense in this form. Each outline entry below, though, will have explanations, an example, and an… Continue reading Plot Clinic Outline
Cover Art: Plot Clinic
Wanted something shadowy and just a little bit sinister—plotting being the arcane, twisty art that it is. This is what I came up with. Back to work. The words, the words are calling…. And I definitely must revise the Character Clinic cover to match the rest of the covers. Soon. Very soon.
Pages finished
I’m on page 63, love what I got, brain is frazzled. So I’m going to take a short break, put together the Create A Plot cover, and come back to this when my eyes aren’t crossed and see if I can get another set of pages done. The Air Force Kid and his wife are… Continue reading Pages finished
Revision, the Friday Snippet, and the next Clinic
I started ripping The Ruby Key apart in my head about an hour after I finished the first draft. I was going to start in on it on Friday, but Friday rolled around and I realized I wasn’t quite ready. So I made myself not look at the book until today (actually, I’m printing it… Continue reading Revision, the Friday Snippet, and the next Clinic
