Category: HollysWritingClasses.com
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Ohio 5: Chapter 2 Finished!
So today went well. For me, anyway. It was NOT a nice day for my main character, who experienced pain, and feeling like a jerk (deservedly), and who has been tucked out of the way for the time being with the simple instruction “STAY OUT OF TROUBLE.” I don’t see that going the way the…
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452 words today on Ohio 5… and wicked fun!
There’s hurting characters for the good of the story. There’s one-upmanship between two characters who have both provably been through some serious shit… And then there was today, where I laughed my ass of while being Mean To Characters I Love(TM), where the one-upmanship got really, really intense. 452 words for the day, 3574…
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Ohio Novel #5- 251 words on Chapter 2
So to get the context of this, the picture above is what’s going on outside my house right now. I’m inside, where it’s warm (if you’re wearing sweatpants, double-layered socks, and a hand-knit wool sweater, anyway). I’m writing about Ohio in the spring… which (ahem) this ain’t… while looking out the window at snow spiraling…
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Finished Chapter 1 of Ohio Five!
And it was not easy. I wrote words, then deleted a BUNCH of words, including some of the ones I’d just written, and then got the right words. I managed to capture this in pictures. My starting wordcount… The wordcount after I realized I was writing in the wrong direction and deleted a hefty chunk…
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Another stolen hour on Ohio Five… 541 words, and a new discovery. AND a website update.
In Ohio Five this morning, I got a bit of additional backstory on the terribly important guy who has now gone missing, and am moving to a big moment for my main character. And I got to write some more fiction, which was a pure joy. Now back to the website, with the knowledge that…
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My next week-ish: Brain reset, but no rest
I may not be in here regularly for the next week (I am possibly being a bit optimistic on that week thing, by the way. It might take me two or three to do everything I have to do.) The first part of what I’m doing is letting Book 4 settle into the back of…
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6:47 AM – Finishing Ohio 4, starting Ohio 5, while building the new HollysWritingClasses.com site
SO… My website over on HollysWritingClasses.com is undergoing a massive overhaul (complete site rebuild). And I anticipated the process taking FOUR months. Turns out… it’s probably not anything like that. My amazing community moderators over there have already finished building all the classrooms in the new software, and getting all the class materials into them…
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OHIO #4: GOT ‘EM! 2110 words… and sheer joy!
Fun, fun writing. It flew, and I made myself laugh. I’m not done with the novel yet, but I’m done for today. I left things hanging, but I wrote considerably more than my 1250 words goal. Now I have to go work on the website. Monday, I get to come back to this, and to…
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I know how Book 4 ends!!! And will probably finish the novel TODAY!
I woke up this morning knowing the ending. As has happened sometimes in the past with novels, it was just there, something my brain figured out while my body was asleep, and dumped into the hopper for me to see when I woke up. So TODAY, I need to dump about 1200-1400 words that went in…
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There were chickens. There was roosting… and Evil Took A Bow
Another day of building the fix for the HollysWritingClasses.com website. And then a day of coming in late, and tired… and falling into the story. I did not know that today was going to be the day one of my secondary villains came out of hiding. Or that the various things this character has done…