Category: Ohio
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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…
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Long, Hard Day — BUT… Replotting and WORDS accomplished — 1488 Words, (73,883 TOTAL)
Today I realized that I’d planned and outlined more than I can fit into 90,000 words. I figured out my number of chapters, figured out that I’m averaging 3000 words per chapter, and had to remove about five segments of story from my existing outline — and now will finish the book in just five…
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Trauma, memory, and my main character – 1283 words
I got some of my favorite words in the series this morning. (1283 of them, in fact.) My MC (main character) had a BAD morning a couple chapters back, and finally made it back home in this chapter — worse for wear, but not as much so as one would have reason to expect. She’s…
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Memory holds some dark nights within it – my MC is facing a bad one today. 1341 words, and good progress.
Yesterday there were no words. There was, instead, me cutting prices of all my writing classes over $20 by 50% — the economy is not great, and indications on whether it will get better or worse are all over the place. I’ll raise prices again when the economy recovers. So no, there was no Tuesday…
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What your side-eye sees … 1259 words, and whistling in the dark
I had a very good Monday morning. A registered nurse working night shift in the intensive care unit came under my main character’s scrutiny for being a bit… pointy about the tooth-ular region. Both the day shift RN and my hero’s doctor are having a hard time believing her. Except that she has big credibility…
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Fat’s Where It’s At – A quirky scene, and 1657 words. AWESOME writing Friday!
I have been beating the crap out of my main character on a regular basis — she has a dangerous and very weird job, and she’s pissed off some seriously WRONG folks. Over the last few writing days, I’ve been clobbering her. Today, while recovering, she started looking at herself through a different lens. And…
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Fun with the ICU, nurses, and some disturbing staffers — 1303 words on Ohio #2
Writing today was a delight — I made myself laugh several times while my MC dealt with being in ICU as a patient, and dealing with the staff, the discomforts of being stuck in ICU… and getting the first hint that even the hospital might not be as safe for her as she had hoped.…
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A great writing day, and beating up my main character some more. Big Fun!
I had to do it last of the things on my list, but after writing and sending out a couple of emails today, I set down with the words, fell right into the story, and got 1215. As shown by the picture above, more than I need to hit my deadline, if slightly fewer than…