In spite of everything — and today there was just a whole lot of “everything” to contend with — I got 1872 words I love. And found out there were some mysterious circumstances connected with Grandma and her death. I’m going to leave it at that, except to note that Grandma’s old lawyer tried to… Continue reading The Ohio Novel: The weird little lawyer and the body on the stairs
Category: URBAN FANTASY
How to Write a Novel, Ko-Fi Redraw Tomorrow, and in the Ohio Series Novel today … more questions, no answers
Cold-Engine Fiction I’ll begin with the fiction writing, which this morning started like a frozen engine with a dead battery. I ended up tinkering with a few worldbuilding questions, looking around in the MC’s newly discovered home library, and reading back through a couple of past chapters to figure out why the fact that Tori’s wandering… Continue reading How to Write a Novel, Ko-Fi Redraw Tomorrow, and in the Ohio Series Novel today … more questions, no answers
Post-Vertigo: The Ohio Series, Novel One, and shifts in the story
Had a rough last couple of days due to BPPV, but thanks to the Half-Somersault Maneuver, today I’m okay again. And I had a great writing day, with a few caveats. I created a character in the first half of the book that has to go. This character would have (or COULD HAVE) made things… Continue reading Post-Vertigo: The Ohio Series, Novel One, and shifts in the story
The Ohio Series: The Kitten and the Scary-ass Basement – FRIDAY SNIPPET
This has been a fantastic writing week. In the three days I could work on it, I got well over my 6000 planned words, and am closing on the midpoint of the novel. But more that that, this has been remarkable fun to write. I’ve been using processes I came up with to simplify novel-writing… Continue reading The Ohio Series: The Kitten and the Scary-ass Basement – FRIDAY SNIPPET
The Ohio Series: 2667 words, and SOFW Goals
Summer of Fiction Writing stuff first. I didn’t realize until this morning when I went it to check them that I’d forgotten to write down all steps of my clear goals. So the first thing I did this morning was that. They’re on the forum, but I’m reposting them here as well. My Summer of… Continue reading The Ohio Series: 2667 words, and SOFW Goals
The Ohio Series: 693 words, and What’s In The Basement?
While I did not get a lot of words today — we have a bit of nice chaos going on here at the moment — the ones I got were good. First, cookies rear their dangerous heads in my fiction again, this time cookies that apparently have just a hint of magic to them. Second,… Continue reading The Ohio Series: 693 words, and What’s In The Basement?
The Ohio Series: 1408 words and a cliffhanger for me
Had a LOT of things going today, all of which were important, some of which were urgent, and all of which collided with my words. But I did get 1408, and I’m now on Chapter 4. And Tori got her bolt cutters, took the lock off the basement freezer, opened it, closed it again, and… Continue reading The Ohio Series: 1408 words and a cliffhanger for me
The Ohio Series: TGIF, and the magic digs deeper
I made myself cry three times today in the couple hours I was writing my 2056 words. I’m connecting deeply with the magic of a real and remembered place — with a town I loved, with a time I recall with a lot of powerful emotions. I’m dealing with my connection to this story with… Continue reading The Ohio Series: TGIF, and the magic digs deeper
The Ohio Series: 1977 words, with Tori and the snake in the canoe
Fun, fun fiction writing day today. My heroine, Tori Gage, is in Ohio now, in the house she inherited from her grandma, and she’s just started doing the rounds — and has started in the basement. Where there are three freezers, one with meat, one with home-grown vegetables, and one with a lock and no… Continue reading The Ohio Series: 1977 words, with Tori and the snake in the canoe
