Tag: ohio novel #2
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Friday… got the words but no more time.
So I started with 1128, finished with 61,864 words, and got my minimum word count to stay on deadline — 62,992. It’s Friday, and I still have a list of stuff to finish, so I’ll just say, I LOVE where yesterday’s scene ended up. Awesome stuff to come back to next Monday. Hope you have…
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The Ghost Who’ll Be Coming to Ohio
The text message at the top of this post (which I sent to Matt at 3:34 AM on 12/6/20) includes the date and time because my half-sister, Julie, died in 2016, before her birthday, which was December 3rd. I got the news of her death from my older son, Mark, who called Matt while we…
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Trusting your characters to surprise you: 1400 words from Friday, reported a day late
Writing yesterday went really well. I hit this awesome surprise, where one of my characters suddenly did something perfectly unexpected, showing up at my main character’s house with a cell phone video showing the impossible in action. It was exactly the weird and twisty wonderfulness that thrilled me, and made me laugh, and at the…
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Seven. But close to done.
At the moment, I don’t have much more to say than that. If I can get this last hill of shit shoveled, I will then be able to get some actual words today. If I get to my fiction before I run out of working hours, I’ll be starting at 34,298 words, with a writing…
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Help I didn’t ask for… a long slog ahead to fix what a “helpful” company irreversibly broke
Oh, irony. Two days ago, I think, “Gee… the writing is going really well, I miss blogging, and I would love to blog about writing fiction again.” Two days ago, after a middle-of-the-road-but-not-bad day of getting my words — I have fun, I like the words I get, and I get enough of them to…