Category: PARANORMAL
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Followed
Aleksa knows she’s being tailed. She has no idea who’s back there, but she’s sure whoever it is has a connection to the murder of her colleague Mike. 258 words today, done early because I also did about 4000 words on Lesson 2 of HTRYN, and when I go to bed tonight, I intend to…
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Broaching Immortality
I finally confronted the issue of immortality head-on tonight. The scene flew. It isn’t going to stand as written—it’s a bit too fairytale-ish—though I gave it an ominous ending that I love. 563 words, and I’m working in the critical framework that I need to hold the story together. Overall, fairytale feel or not, I’m…
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Lying about Love
So Ki, my hero (a.k.a. Sam) has just lied to his cop partner, claiming to be in love with Aleksa, my heroine, in order to shake off some heat about his actions relating to her. It wasn’t a planned scene. It was, however, a pretty good one, though as I was writing it, I realized…
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Character study, 468 words
The scene segment I worked on tonight was a study of Aleksa after she was attacked, and how she was dealing with the ugly memories the attack stirred up. It was all about stillness and control versus the uncontrolled fury—almost a second person—that the attack woke up and set loose. I learned some interesting information…
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Finally rolled over 50,000 words
I wrapped up with 50,176 total words in the story tonight—a nice milestone after the delay that had kept me at 49,590 for what… about two weeks? My revised plot cards are all in place, my arterial bypass grafted around the nasty clot of wrong turn is working beautifully, and the 586 words I got…
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Mostly ‘Cause Tomorrow’s My Birthday
I could have worked tonight. But I decided since tomorrow is my birthday to stay up late with my guys, watch the conclusion of “Life on Mars,” play Fable II, knit a pair of socks, and just have a good time. No words. No words tomorrow, though I’ll put up a post. No words Friday.…
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Worrrds? We don’t need no steenking words!
Yeah. Well. I got my big birthday present a couple of days early. A Sony Reader. Red. Spiffy. WAAAAY spiffy. And instead of being a good and faithful writer and getting my words, I’ve been sitting here working my way through the user’s manual and discovering that, yes, I CAN put the entire Think Sideways…
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Better than yesterday
No words on the page, but six new scenes figured out. Which means I’ve about finished my coronary bypass around the the clogged artery of those bad center scenes where I took the story over the top. Process is simple. Write one notecard for each scene that will replace a broken scene. DO NOT REVISE…
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Last Thorsday Night: Cover Art and story update.
I forgot to mention that my short story, titled “Last Thorday Night” in its final draft, sold to Trisha Telep, editor of The Mammonth Book of Time Travel Romance. Last Thorsday Night is the only story I’ve ever written about a writer. I also forgot to mention that I got the cover art, which is…
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The Howling Redo of Despair and Agony
It was an interesting night. First off and totally unexpectedly, I got 287 words of actual draft. So HAH! Happy about that. Second, I got out one of these neato little pre-ring-bound index card thingees I’ve had sitting in my office for the last few months after I found it at Office Depot—because I am…