Category: Writing Neep

  • Wake-Up Call

    Woke up this morning with answers, three minutes before the alarm clock would have gone off. One of the better ways to wake up, incidentally. One of my answers was betrayal by a trusted friend and colleague. The other, the moment when all that work I did on shadows yesterday clicked and I knew exactly…

  • Revising the Math

    I can save everything through the end of CHAPTER 10 with minimal revisions. More than I’d thought. So I have, in fact, 42,357 words to write from scratch. 196 pages. 21 scenes. Of which I have four outlined. But at least I’ve progressed from only having 13.3% done to having 20% done, and I didn’t…

  • Walking on Broken Glass

    I’m starting into the new line-per-scene today, and I could be having equally as much fun hitting my head with a brick. MAYBE even a little more fun. Can I blame it on lack of sleep? Emotional weariness? Being murderously sick of these characters? That pain-in-the-ass writer’s malaise that hits all writers from rank newbies…

  • Clustering Techniques for Breaking Writing Barriers

    How ’bout that. Not only that, but pain and all, working today is actually soothing. Remember yesterday’s little image cluster? Well … it grew. And I’ve had a couple of story breakthroughs because of it. Here’s the same thing in outline form — a little less overwhelming. Gifs and outline and the HTML for it…

  • Fighting the Unwilling Brain

    My mind is refusing to cooperate on rethinking the outline. So I let the subconscious pick pictures out of Inspiration’s collection, and I’m forcing the conscious part of the brain to give me new directions for the story based on these odd images. Thought I’d share the mostly nonverbal bit I’ve done so far, simply…

  • November 1 Chores Wrapped, HAWKSPAR

    Got Chapter 3 of MIDNIGHT RAIN up. (Link on front page of site.) Got reviews linked. Got interview with Zette at VISION linked. Got monthly homeschool paperwork for county sent off. Paperwork for Clonlara will go out later. Sent out what I hope will be the final version of the proposal for the next paranormal…

  • Why Writing ISN’T a Waste of Time

    Just wrote and posted a fun little article on the economics of writing. Money From Nothing: The Economic Value of Writing Original Fiction — A Foray Even Your Mother Will Appreciate Into Why Writing Isn’t a Waste of Your Time It provides answers to the family member, significant other, or friend who thinks you’d be…

  • A Little Inspiration

    Playing around with character background and cultural stuff for my female protag tonight. The whole focus of the book has shifted. Primary storylines have become secondary, secondary lines have moved to the forefront requiring deeper exploration. It’s a big hairy hell of a mess, but it would be a lot worse without Inspiration. Excellent piece…

  • The Dread Numbers for SEAFOX

    Between doing the rewrite for LGD and the copyedit for TALYN, I’ve lost about a month and a half of time I’d figured for SEAFOX. I have to acknowledge, too, that I’ll have to do requested editorial revisions for LGD soon, though I don’t know when I’ll have to do them or how long those…

  • Questions and Answers Number One — NOW CLOSED

    I’ve decided that on occasion I’ll open up a single thread for questions, (and comments, if you’d care to make them.) Comments are ON intentionally in this thread. When the comments link disappears,that means I’ve closed the thread for questions. Please use the REPLY button on the top right immediately under this post to ask…