Category: Ohio
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Resetting my Ohio #2 deadline… Because “holidays and weekends” are a real thing. And so’s math.
I had to redo my schedule. I forgot about holidays, about taking time off — and I also forgot to figure weekends — and the fact that I don’t write on them — into my schedule. To hit my deadline date, I would have ended up trying to hit 2500 words a day, and I’m…
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The Ghost Who’ll Be Coming to Ohio
The text message at the top of this post (which I sent to Matt at 3:34 AM on 12/6/20) includes the date and time because my half-sister, Julie, died in 2016, before her birthday, which was December 3rd. I got the news of her death from my older son, Mark, who called Matt while we…
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Conflict With the Neighbors!
Things are getting dangerous in my little fictional town — and the neighbors who have been supportive until now are having big, anxious second thoughts. The scene didn’t go quite the way I expected… and I had a moment in the middle where I didn’t know how it was going to work out. And then…
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Writing the middle, where things just got tougher for my hero
Today’s words started out being pretty difficult to get, but at the point where I got to bring in some experiences I had as a kid a long way away from Ohio, it turned fun. And from fun, it got strange, and from strange it moved to one of those little lightbulb moments where you…
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Sometimes the bear eats you… 833 words, but I do like them
I started in this morning at about 7:30 AM, got going at a pretty good clip, and then realized I didn’t like what I was getting. So I deleted that, came at it from a different direction… And didn’t like what I was getting. So I tried a third time. As I write this post,…
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Trusting your characters to surprise you: 1400 words from Friday, reported a day late
Writing yesterday went really well. I hit this awesome surprise, where one of my characters suddenly did something perfectly unexpected, showing up at my main character’s house with a cell phone video showing the impossible in action. It was exactly the weird and twisty wonderfulness that thrilled me, and made me laugh, and at the…
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Fun, Joy, Surprises, and The Way You Want A Writing Day to Go
Some writing days are just wonderful, and amazing, and fun from beginning to end… and you have to appreciate them when you have them, because a lot of them aren’t. So this is me being joyfully grateful. In spite of the fact that I got nearly three thousand words today, I actually only wrote about…
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Better and better — Ohio Novel 2 and 2377 words
I woke up this morning knowing how Ohio #2 needed to end. And today I jumped to all the way to Chapter 25, five chapters from the planned last Chapter 30, and started writing the necessary stuff to get the story to that ending. Tomorrow, I may drop back to chapter 12, and then write toward…
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Pretty good day — Ohio Novel #2 Progress
This morning, I increased my daily word-count goal to 1500 (up from 1250). This was a small change, and I’d been hitting that number pretty regularly anyway. So I decided to make it my regular objective. I came in just above that with 1532 words for the day. Have a nice situation going on with…
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Monday, and 1333 Words
Not a lot to say, but the wreckage of last week has now been cleared away, and I sat my ass down and wrote my book, and Ohio #2 is 1333 words closer to the finish line, with a total of 35,900 words down… In FIRST DRAFT, which is still a long way from done.…