Category: Worlds and Worldbuilding
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Done outlining Ohio 4 — Progress and Planned Evil
Oh… BOY! I knew going in today that I was going to have to beat the crap out of my main character in the plotting. I did NOT know quite how badly, or how I was going to do that WHILE preventing myself from ending Ohio 4 on a cliffhanger. (Because we do not end…
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Good OHIO 3 words, a new neighbor, a weird twist… and DANGER — 1233 words, 34,447 total
I cannot believe how fast this scene came together — and this wasn’t even anything I pulled out of the first draft. This was all new, all scary, and creepy in a way that I didn’t manage in the first run through this book. I didn’t see it coming… but I cannot wait to get…
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A RIDICULOUSLY good Friday — 3927 words, 24,247 total — and wicked joy
After my main character got to experience the deep joy of finding a true friend yesterday (my time, not hers)… she is now facing the potential of horrible loss. So I’m sitting here after getting a good run of words that led to a cliffhanger, a I’m a bit teary-eyed over what’s just happened (YES,…
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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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A Giggly Scene, A Wicked Secret… and I Love You, Tomorrow
No big secret that these books are set in a decidedly sideways version of the Ohio town in which I live. I love this place, and I’m having a wonderful time building some seriously wacky shit into what is in reality a lovely old town with a great history, and some fine and friendly people.…
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A quirky direction that might be a mistake… 1267 words, and 50,690 total
Today the story took what felt like a logical turn, and I let myself run with it. The understanding here, though, is that I’ve brought an edge of science-fiction and fantasy fandom into the fifth novel, and doing this might be a break in the fourth wall that will break the novel. I’m going to…
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Behind the third door… 1401 words, and the mystery that revealed the mystery within
Today’s writing was philosophical… and probably a bit expository. Which means what I wrote today is probably going to get heavily edited during the revision. But I learned something big about my novel’s world today — something that has been creeping into the back of my brain in bits and pieces for the last couple…
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Something unplanned… and I can’t wait to find out what happens next!
There’s been this small, ongoing mystery in these books since Book One. And I don’t mean a mystery for the reader. I mean a mystery for me. I built this one set (a set in fiction is a place you use frequently that contains important secrets and other elements your characters need to use to…
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Oh, such wicked fun today! 1257 words, and 44,099 total.
I have only the vaguest idea of where the story is going right now. I’m a long way off of the planned outline, writing into the dark, following the conflict, and asking always, “What could go wrong?” “What could go wrong?” is the right question for this section, for this book, for the aftermath of…