Category: Write A Book With Me
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Ohio 4: Back into the new stuff! Danger. Adventure. Mystery…. and 1254 words. (17,161 total)
Today was all new words, and I love them. They came at me with a complete twist from what I’d planned to write, but they still got me to where I need to be come Monday So this was a good, good writing week. And now I’m ready for the weekend. ◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈━◈ Get Holly’s Free…
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Ohio 4: Big word count, weird scene — and now I’m in Chapter 5
Urban fantasy is “where normal life and magic collide.” Today’s collision was big, fun, and above all, very strange. I got 2339 words for the day (all new), and now have 15,906 total for the book, and did some heavy revision on the keeper scene I brought in yesterday. I also deleted words, so I…
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Ohio 4: Friends, cannibals, and 4,475 words (of 1250 planned, plus how THAT happened)… and 15,118 total…
I wrote about 700 actual words today. Following which, I benefitted by having vastly overwritten a big chunk of Ohio 3, in which I leapt ahead and did a ton of stuff that actually needed to wait until this book. When I realized, back in Book 3, that I’d gotten ahead of myself, I set those…
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Got more of one scene than I wanted, but… 10,652 words total, and 1265 for the day.
Sometimes you write something knowing it’s going to have to be edited down in revision — and today I ran long on a piece of my main character’s past. It was important, but I still have a pretty good idea that in revision, this is part of the book that will come out shorter. But……
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Today was fun
… 1344 words, 8,173 total This morning, in spite of what felt like a hard start of my brain with its engine cold, once I got rolling, I flew. The story took a turn that surprised me, even as it still took me right through the events I was planning. It just didn’t present them to me in anything like…
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A spiffy surprise for my main character — 1263 words and 6832 total
Today was a day for a bit of family history for my main character. It follows a big adventure scene, and reveals to my MC stuff she did not know about her grandmother — big stuff that ties into not just her present but to her past all the way back when she was in…
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NEVER GO BACK — Ohio 4, Day 2. Epic chaos begins. 1271 words for the day, 2945 total
I’m making good progress. I’m also making a mess — I tripped over part of the mess in the last section of Book 3 when grabbing details there to continue into Book 4, where I discovered that I had not cleaned up the ending of THREE quite as well as I remembered. This, however, is…
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I now have twenty-four of thirty Story Sentences written.
Long haul — I’ve been at this since 6: 30 am when I got out of the shower. Today a hard slog — I did a fair amount of deleting, twiddling, rethinking… walking in circles in the office talking out loud to myself and presenting both sides of the “how should I do this?” brainstorming…
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HAPPY DANCE!… Ohio 3 first draft finished at 89,556 words and 1828 for the day
Today was a good day. I had to delete one whole chapter, and I ended up writing about three times as many words as what shows, because of that giant chunk of deletion. But I landed the next to last chapter, and retrofitted the last chapter to fit the new stuff today. The last chapter…
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One more writing day left on Ohio Book 3 — 1552 words today, and 88,306 words total
I am very pleased to report that the rethink on what had to happen to end Ohio Novel #3 worked. Worked like crazy. So did the revelation I had last night that I remembered to write down in my bullet journal yesterday, which was just this: “B” tells “T” to carry the walking stick. (Names disguised…