Category: Ohio
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Oh, boy! Hurt my character, wrought vengeance on an evildoer, and made myself laugh… in 1356 words!
Excellent Monday! And how often does anyone get to say that? I rolled into work this morning (a few hours ago) with my Conflict Sentence in the right corner of Scrivener. That’s Protagonist Versus Antagonist in Setting with Twist in 30 words or less. Today’s chapter sentence was twenty-nine words, and was the aftermath of…
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Friday… got the words but no more time.
So I started with 1128, finished with 61,864 words, and got my minimum word count to stay on deadline — 62,992. It’s Friday, and I still have a list of stuff to finish, so I’ll just say, I LOVE where yesterday’s scene ended up. Awesome stuff to come back to next Monday. Hope you have…
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When a Main Character Trips over a Secret Past – and 1310 words.
You think you know who your main character is by the time you get her more than halfway through Book 2. More than that, you KNOW she knows who she is. So today, my MC discovered that an event in her life that she thought had gone down one way did not. And she discovered…
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Wednesday with a lot going on — but rolled past 60,000 words and hit my target anyway
Rough morning… some of it just with the content of this particular scene, which was a pretty dark event from my main character’s childhood. I like what I got, and I got 1,577 words doing it, which continues to move me closer to finishing the first draft of this book early. I suspect, though, that…
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Quick Update Because It’s Laundry Day: 1786 words, and cool twist!
So here’s where I started this morning. I began with a negative word count because when I read through what I wrote yesterday, some stuff had to go. Some days the destruction is a LOT worse than this, but I did want to show that when I start in, my negative word counts do show…
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Beat the headache. 1278 new words, and a good twist.
First, the headache, because it was the biggest obstacle I faced this morning. Over the holidays, we did an intentional, planned drift away from keto so that we could have some fun foods. Pies, you know, and cookies, and stuff like baked potatoes and stuffing. We hadn’t done this before, but we hadn’t dealt with…
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Oh, BOY! Good, good, writing day today.
So… this morning I got my favorite line so far in the Ohio #2 novel. It’s subject to change during revision, of course, or outright deletion if I come up with something better, but right now it’s this. If you can catch them, you can eat them. Can’t throw in the context, except to note…
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Got 1287 Ohio words and love them, but…
I’m out of time. The morning ran a lot longer than I’d hoped. So for today, I have blog short, give a little cheer, and head out to do necessary stuff.
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An Easier-Than-Expected Day on Ohio #2
I’d written a small chunk of an earlier version of this first draft that mostly didn’t work, so I bailed on it partway though and started again, moving from Apple Pages back to Scrivener at the same time. Today, I hit the point where I was able to reuse a good piece of what I’d…
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A good and angry Tuesday – the novel’s midpoint conflict comes to life
Was at work by nine (I slept in a little) and just finished my words. Goal is always 1250, and I got 1412 — so I came out a little ahead. If you look at my screen shot of the word counter, you can see that I could have quit at 1242 and still stayed…