Category: Slightly Loony
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Thorsday Night: To Kill . . . Or Not To Kill
Down to the last scene. I’ve finished 5865 words, and I’m still trying to decide if the story is better served by having the villain live, or die. I hate him—I really, really hate him—and I want him to die. But I can nail some great plot points either way. That and the ending are…
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Thorsday Night: Still on target
1676 words to go. Heading into the climactic confrontation, where I have two good twists planned. Nila and Per (my handsome Swede) were in deep trouble, only from the looks of things, the trouble has all just shifted to Nila’s shoulders. This is such a blast.
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Thorsday Night: 882 more words
I’m at 3687 words. And right at the midpoint, I came up with a better way to do the story, which is going to require significant rewriting. Probably on Sunday night. Something my main character found out in scene three now has to be transferred to scene four, which is going to cause some word…
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Thorsday Night becomes Friday morning
3701 words to do today, but I dreamed the story, and I woke up with a serious improvement on the ending, and I’m ready to go. The time travel twist is pretty twisty now. [steps up to mic, taps mic, murmurs “Is this thing on? … on? … on? … on?”] I’d like to take…
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Thorsday Night: Update 4
Scene Three done, have done the first big shocker and the first bit that made me tear up a little as I was writing it. Now have 2799 words. A mere 451 more words will get me to my deadline for tonight. I think I like this one better than Light Through Shadow.
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Thorsday Night Writers: 1703 Words, and Scene Two Done
Yeah. It’s still falling into place. Ended with a good, tight cliffhanger, and the mystery deepening. What would you do if someone handed you a printed and bound book you’d written and tucked away, and have never shown anyone…that has been printed 50 years in the future?
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Got It!
Took a bit, but I now have the idea, the complete Sentence (30 words or less that introduce the protagonist, the antagonist, the conflict, and the twist), eight scenes outlined, and my math. 6500 words. Eight scenes. 812 words per scene. And a title. The Thorsday Night Writers. It’s time travel, a complete romantic arc,…
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Holy Crap! A DEADLINE!
So. I agreed to write a story for Trisha Telep for the Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance, because I had such fun writing the story for the Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance. And then we moved, and we lived through Pack-Unpack Purgatory, and Getting The Internet At Our New Location Hell, and, well… And…
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Writing the Novel: Small Insanities
Lap desk: Check. Laptop: Check. Logitech trackball: Check. (Does Apple think all Mac users have only one finger on their mouse hand? Or just that we’re not bright enough to use two or three…AND a thumb?) Story plan for the night: Oh, big-ass check. Last night I wrote for two hours and got less than…
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Building Rome In A Day, or How Not to Move
Somewhere along the way, someone told me something was impossible. Actually, I know exactly where and when. It was my first day of seventh-grade art class, and my art teacher told me that the gray in the center of the color wheel, that color representative of what you got when you mixed all the colors,…