Category: writing as a business
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Ending strong on Friday: 1320 new words – 36,807 total – and a scene I’ve been waiting to write since I started this
Great writing day, my MC and the character who has been hidden inside the story until now finally get to meet… And it all worked. I miss being able to do snippets, because I would have had a great one for today — but I have to keep the pseudonym separate from me until the…
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My MC’s world is about to get stranger… and that’s saying a lot. 1433 words today, 32,637 words total, and a meaty scene
I’ve been up and writing since well before seven AM, and today I left myself in a great position to pick up tomorrow right where I left off. Today’s piece of the story unfolded nicely for me, the coming danger and adventure are closing in, and my MC is finally going to meet someone who’s…
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A fine and fruitful Monday: 1400 words, 31,204 total on Book 3, and the “neighbors”…
An already weird world took a turn for the weirder this morning as my MC went for a dangerous run, and carried cookies over to the neighbors’ house as a pretense to being invited in. I love those days when you go over the word count in flying time, and those days when the work…
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Almost to 30,000 words (one third), and got a scene I love
While my day has been a bit rocky overall, I came out of my work on Ohio Novel #3 with my character making a tough decision that is going to have major repercussions — mostly good, but some bad — and I got a couple dollops of funny stuff into the story. Word count…
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Day’s chaos not as disruptive as I had feared — 888 words, and a new kind of evil monster
I didn’t get the full three hours — I still have a stack of stuff I have to get done. But I did get one good scene, a decent chunk of words, and a new creature to throw at my good guys that makes my skin crawl. Keeping this short, because I’d love to finish…
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Snow… FFS! But 1259 words that I love, and 27,647 words total… and your picture of the building map I drew yesterday.
It snowed at around three in the morning, and it’s sputtering again now. Fortunately, while the snow has been sticking, the temperature has never dropped below freezing, so we shouldn’t lose blooming flowers, or tender crops, or my spectacular personal back-yard display of dandelions and violets. (And absolutely no sarcasm here — dandelions and wild…
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Good words, a fun scene, and the very good tension of upcoming danger
Today’s words came easily, and were fun to get. I started by reading through the last few paragraphs from yesterday, picked up where I left off, and today’s scene flowed nicely, introducing both a long-running “failure to mention something important” by one of my important secondary characters, and then a second such “gee, why would…
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Today, the big cuts paid off big — the combat accountant, the buddy assassin, and 1254 words
Back into positive numbers today, and it feels good. And the story flew. My protagonist has discovered that to her astonishment, she is not as alone in the universe as she was led to believe… … but discovers immediately thereafter that she is in immediate and deadly danger of losing this family she never…
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Redundant redundancies and a better direction lead to a BIG negative word-count
Yesterday I finished with 22,297 words. Today I started in a bit before 8 AM, full of coffee and certainty that I knew where I’d be going. I picked up exactly where I left off, and adding to yesterday’s scene — and then, hitting a chunk of older material that was wrong — I pulled…
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No jury duty, 1588 words, and am now over 20% through Book 3 of 5 (also… fasting…)
I’m grateful for writing, and for being well into a story that holds my attention and makes me need to know what happens next. Having been fasting since Sunday night, I’ve now had nothing but coffee, water, and vitamins for long enough that my hindbrain has started taking action against me. My legs keep picking…