Big fan that I am of GSD (getting shit done), I’ve found things over the years that have made GSD easier. The screenshots below are Before and After on a TINY section of my very large desktop this morning. The white bar on the left isn’t neatness. It’s Scrivener below a 30-word PACTS Sentence that… Continue reading Desktop Curtain, from Many Tricks: My single favorite Mac app
Category: Small-Town Fantasy
OHIO 5: 620 words, the wrap-up of Chapter 5, and the start of Chapter 6
It was not a dark and stormy night. It was, instead, a pretty decent afternoon in May. But my MC has just discovered that there has been a whole lot of lying going on, and that things she thought were dead sure certain were, in fact, a tissue of lies told to her by people… Continue reading OHIO 5: 620 words, the wrap-up of Chapter 5, and the start of Chapter 6
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… Continue reading 300 words on Ohio Five… and the discovery of how something clever got done
Ohio 5: Grandma’s Secret and some pasts remembered – 685 words, 9191 total
Turns out my MC’s late and much-lamented grandmother had a secret she was keeping from those nearest and dearest to her. This secret might explain a scene in the very first book. The grandmother’s personality, by the way, is spun off of my maternal great-grandmother, who lived to be almost 103, and who was a… Continue reading Ohio 5: Grandma’s Secret and some pasts remembered – 685 words, 9191 total
Plugging along on Ohio 5: Some good stuff, some that’s probably expository… 306 words, 8508 total
Part of today’s work is going to end up being edited heavily during the one-pass revision. Because it was world-building. Thinking with my fingers, walking my way through why what’s going on matters and how those actions work, and what their consequences have been. It was right in the chapter, and parts of it will… Continue reading Plugging along on Ohio 5: Some good stuff, some that’s probably expository… 306 words, 8508 total
OHIO 5: Far better than average morning: 1001 words, 8202 total
So… The writing flew this morning. I’m not sure why… but things just clicked. And while they were clicking, the back of my mind was working on the problem of taking books four complete first drafts and one book that as of today is not quite ten percent done (in first draft only, of course),… Continue reading OHIO 5: Far better than average morning: 1001 words, 8202 total
The Mot Juste… 361 words, and 7201 total on Ohio 5
There’s the word. There’s the right word. And then, there are 361 right words that bring in a character for Book 5 that ties in tightly with what my main character just discovered about her grandmother’s secret activities, and how they affect her town… and her world. Today did not go quickly. The words did… Continue reading The Mot Juste… 361 words, and 7201 total on Ohio 5
Today was FUN, wordwise.
I discovered some new things about the town yesterday, and today I got to spend some time building those spiffy bits out. The Lesser God of Barbecue made an appearance. My MC’s primary ally discovered she knew something he didn’t about the town, at the same time that’s she’s discovered a weird little thing she… Continue reading Today was FUN, wordwise.
Done with Ohio 5, Chapter 3: 253 words today, 6216 total (Plus HWC Update)
No surprises today. The rest of the chapter just flowed smoothly from yesterday’s revelation. Tomorrow, I’ll start chapter four, and probably revisit my existing outline again — because as I have with every single book so far, three chapters in, I have now completely left the outline I had for this book. This is the… Continue reading Done with Ohio 5, Chapter 3: 253 words today, 6216 total (Plus HWC Update)
Today I found the meaning of something enormous: 888 words today, 5962 total.
Fifth book in the series. The other four are written (but not revised), and I’m almost ten percent of the way through this one… AND TODAY I found the primary subtheme of the entire five-book arc. It’s been there all along. It’s been there since the first scene of the first novel in the first… Continue reading Today I found the meaning of something enormous: 888 words today, 5962 total.
