Category: Stand-Alone Fiction
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74 pages of revision progress on Ohio 2
The words went really well. Don’t know how many I added today — but it was a fair number. And I like what I got. I’m very grateful I’ve got a weekend starting, though. I’m tired, and I’ll be grateful for two days of when I don’t have to do anything writing-related.
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OHIO 2 REVISION: Made it to manuscript page 134 of the Ohio 2 type-in.
And in this particular set of chapters, I’ve managed to make myself cry a couple of times. The fixes in this section have been mostly small (typos, spellos, extra spaces), and the couple of bigger changes let me add a bit more emotion to the terrible thing that my main character is discovering. It was…
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So today I start the type-in of the Ohio 2 Revision
I was up at six, (when you’re fasting, it’s weirdly easy to roll out of bed at the crack of dawn and be through the shower, done with the first cup of coffee, before seven AM… and at my desk and finished with necessary work emails and the one help desk ticket only I could do…
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Character Paranoia, and the State of Revision
I’m past the halfway mark on the read-through-note-taking process on Ohio 2. I have a lot of the first draft that I’ll be able to use as is. That’s good. I have written novels where I discovered the first draft was The Story I Don’t Want To Tell (and could still run into that in…
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I’m annoyed with myself — Ohio 2 revision read-through, markup… and an unanticipated issue
So I’m all the way through page 422 on the read-through of Book 2. There are 431 printed pages in the first-draft manuscript, and you’d think, wouldn’t you, that being this close to the end of the book, I’d just finish the read-through and mark-up today? Usually, I would. But I’ve been hitting some walls…
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Seventy-five pages of revision on Ohio Two… (evil grin)
I’m discovering there a massive advantages in writing five novels back to back. The stories are connected in your head while you write them. And then they’re connected in your head while you revise them. On the writing side of this, seventy-five pages into Book Two, I haven’t had ANY continuity errors from what I…
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Cuss, cuss, swear, swear, @#%^&*Z!!!!
Seriously… What a week. Earlier, the kitchen sink started spouting water, so we were doing dishes in the bathroom sink. Then the water heater died. Matt found a plumber, who will be coming out today, but since Monday, I’ve been refreshing my unused-but-never-forgotten camping skills, and have been doing a daily bath using one cup…
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FINISHED BOOK FIVE OF THE OHIO SERIES!!!
No, I didn’t plan this. I thought I had another three weeks of writing to hit the end. Yesterday, I was galloping along, and I’d planned to pick up today with the logical continuation of the scene I wrote yesterday, where my characters were in trouble… And when I loped back into the office this…
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Came up short… but landed well
Today’s scene was fun. I like what I got, I like the twist, I like the humor. I am, however, not feeling well, and at the point were I realized I’ve been circling the drain on the scene without coming up with a “what next”, or anything else that would let me hit today’s planned…
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Mwah-ha-ha-ha-HA! Evil is afoot, and fun is right on its tail!
Boy, today did not go where I thought it would. Not at ALL. In the back of my mind, I had this fun little scene planned, and when I popped out of the shower, I knew pretty much where I was going to start. And I did start there — but absolutely none of the…