Category: Ohio Series
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Mondays are Rough — 1159 words (about a hundred words short), and I like my progress…
Today was tough. Just was. I had a lot of things I had to do first (15ths of the month or their equivalents fall into every life, and the actual 15th of each month is mine.) I love a lot of what I got. Met my MC’s great-grandfather. I did some very good worldbuilding that…
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HUGE story win: Price? 2000+ words words cut today, net gain of 670 today, and 3267 to delete tomorrow…
Today went really well from the story perspective. From the wordcount perspective, not so much. I deleted a ton of words back in chapter six, wrote a ton of new words in that chapter, and came up with a net gain of 670 words. Tomorrow is going to be tougher, because tomorrow I’m going to…
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Apparent betrayal leading to epic upcoming battle… and 1372 words
Turns out, for my MC, the solution to her problem isn’t going to be what you ask, or how you ask it. It’s going to be who you ask. And for me, the resolution for this comes from having my hero walk forward down a path that almost promises to get her killed, and seems…
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First the time, then the weather. THEN the words.
THE TIME This morning, I dreamed a digital clock, which showed me 7:31. I woke up. Immediately checked the time. It was actually 7:41. My brain is ten minutes slow…dammit. Anybody still have your copy of The Brand New Human’s User Manual? If you do, could you give me the steps for resetting my brain clock?…
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I knew today was going to be rough. Deleted a couple thousand words. Net gain – 604 words (79,997 total)
So… yeah. I wrote hard. I love what I got. And I love it because Matt and I did a long live-brainstorming section last night, and he and I worked out a helluva better way to go with the story. I deleted a lot more than I’d expected, though — some of it in places…
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Yesterday and Today: Two days of writing because I ran out of blogging time yesterday.
Yesterday was great. I got 1417 words, and read through them this morning while getting into the story, and they can all stay. Yesterday counts as a GOOD day. Today? … Not so much. Today, I took Bugs Bunny’s “wrong turn in Albuquerque” and wrote a significant chunk of fiction that I realized just a…
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Can’t brag –2328 words, but a lot will disappear tomorrow
I wrote about new 1200 words today, and then put in a saved scene from my discarded first draft. It’s a great scene, but a lot of what it related to in the first draft has changed. So tomorrow, I’m going to have to go through and cut a bunch of the cut-and-paste stuff to…
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Wrote a song for Ohio Novel #2 today — 1024 words and out of time
I came in a bit short on the word count today, but working my way through the creation of lyrics for a Celtic Rock Band and having the lyrics include an essential clue my main character has to figure out in order to bring a new kind of help to one of her allies took…