Category: HollysWritingClasses.com
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Most of the words, all of the fun
I got 1207 words today before 11 AM. And now I have to stop where I am because that’s close enough to 1250, I’m at a really good stopping place, and because I and my moderators are hauling ass to rebuild HollysWritingClasses.com on new software and get it live before the existing site croaks. Love…
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I’m looking good to beat my deadline on Ohio #4
So… <evil laugh>… today went well. I got 1251 words of my 1250 needed. And I now only have 12,288 words left to hit my 90,000 on this novel. I might run a little longer, but I don’t think it’s going to be much over that. Yeah, I did the math. And took a…
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Ya gotta love an evil plan…
…And in Book 4 of the Ohio Series, way toward the end, (where I only have about 14,000 words left to finish the damn thing… The Evil Plan just crawled out of the woodwork. Not just for my characters. FOR. ME. I’m at roughly seventy-six thousand words in the FOURTH book of the series, with…
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Words went well, bad things happened…
And once again, I loved what I got. My poor, poor characters… And I got 1351 words, and am now at 68,056 — and the villains in town have just done something really interesting, and my MC just got to see the first tip of a brand new iceberg… But I now have to go…
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Happy dance… Got good words in a mean scene
Today was about big, bad things coming at my MC… and about her knowing they were coming, and getting ready to walk out to face them unarmed to save a dear friend… And about how being someone who shows up when others need help can sometimes pay off when YOU need help… And it went…
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Today, 1983 words and a scene WAY out of order… (and yesterday…)
Ran out of time to blog yesterday — so this is going to have to cover both days. I got 912 words yesterday, and did some more worldbuilding. It was an important day because I figured out the big element in an upcoming scene — And TODAY wrote that great scene, forgetting that it was…
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“No plan survives first contact with the enemy…”
Or second contact… Or third… The quote may come from Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, or Carl von Clausewitz, or Dwight D. Eisenhower… or just some dude who knew shit. But it’s true — and it isn’t just true about war. It’s true about any sort of creation that requires spontaneous adaptation to unknowable but…
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That RIGHT left turn in Albuquerque
First, the word count. On Ohio 4 today, I got 1264 new words (out of my planned 1250…), and on Book 4, I now have 18,426 total. This was, overall, an excellent writing day, in which stuff happened that I was not anticipating that was way better than the stuff I’d planned. My characters were…
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One more writing day left on Ohio Book 3 — 1552 words today, and 88,306 words total
I am very pleased to report that the rethink on what had to happen to end Ohio Novel #3 worked. Worked like crazy. So did the revelation I had last night that I remembered to write down in my bullet journal yesterday, which was just this: “B” tells “T” to carry the walking stick. (Names disguised…