Category: Personal
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Expository Lump-ness — 1290 new words, and yeah, it’ll have to be revised… but…
I needed to explore the significance of the thing that happened yesterday, because it’s a big damn deal, because I didn’t expect what happened, and because I don’t know what’s waiting for me when I take my character down to the end of the hall to look at what’s changed. So today, I ran with…
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Not a GREAT day… but I did get some keeper words
I don’t know if it’s just me, but sometimes after I have a couple days where the writing just flies, and I love everything that hits the page, I have a day like this one, where it’s pretty much like wading like knee-deep mud, and having it steal one shoe and not give it back. …
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“Something wicked…” might be me!
Mondays can be hard starts. You’re back into work after taking the weekend off, you’re a bit cold on the book because you spent the previous week re-launching your writing classes and your mind has been elsewhere… And the first hour, I did some gear-grinding and backing and filling trying to get back into the…
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761 New Ohio 5 Words… and a face-to-face with a feisty hero
In spite of everything (and right at the moment, the HollysWritingClasses.com website and getting it live seems like the monster EVERYTHING that’s stomping out of the ocean to invade Tokyo), I got words this morning. And I like them. I’m about to arm one of my MC’s newest buddies with ancient weapons and set him…
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Doing a Line-for-Scene re-plot of Book 5 from Chapter 7 to Chapter 30
I got 281 words, and am up to 18,423 total, and was rolling along pretty nicely. Hit the end of Chapter 5, rolled over to Chapter 5, and found stuff written clear through Chapter 8 that I’ll either have to save or delete. But I also discovered that the book I’ve been writing since the…
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300 words on Ohio Five… and the discovery of how something clever got done
Nice interplay today between my main character and someone important to her, as she discovers more about what her grandmother had been up to. 300 words exactly. I’m happy with that. The HWC site move/upgrade is now right on top of us, and we could get the “go” at any time. So the fact that…