Good: I actually pulled out the hard copy of the last completed draft of Warped, the plot timeline I reorganized a few months ago, and the most recent, barely started, draft so I could jump start it all over again.

I went through and edited stuff I had already written, and began to add more to the stuff.

Bad: I am being sidetracked ( Read more... )

It was tomorrow when Charlotte’s plane landed at Heathrow airport.

Having only slept a couple of hours during the flight, she was very groggy when she stepped out of the terminal. It was nice, however, to be able to stretch her legs for the first time in ten hours.

Those are the first two sentences to the latest draft of Warped. That draft is ( Read more... )

Okay, so, remember how I've been reminded of August Falley - the main male character in my book - a few times before? Like here and here, for example.

Well... forget all that. Forget all of that. Clear your mind and behold THIS:

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That whole thing I was whining about on my writing journal a few days ago, about my creativity being completely drained away. Well, we can scratch that, I think. I had a doozy of a brain storm last night, while I was lying in bed, trying to go to sleep. (It always happens that way.) I leaped up, turned on my laptop again and added the idea to the ( Read more... )

Didn't have time to post this afternoon. Work was crazy busy most of today. I only got purposefully hung up on once.

Heee! Today, I submitted the first 250 words of Warped to a contest over at Miss Snark's First Victim. And... I got in. :D

That was the easy part. I hashed over those first 250 words (with much appreciated help from asatomuraki and narniadear) until ( Read more... )

I have entered yet another icontest at iconstillness! If you have a minute, please vote for your favoritesYes! It is about 11:30 in the morning and I have officially been up for TWO HOURS already! I normally completely blow my Saturday mornings by sleeping until... about this time. But, right now, I have already eaten breakfast, finished my Grisham book, and ( Read more... )

Applied for several jobs yesterday, and a few more this morning. One of my strategies is to camp out on Craig's List, refresh it every once in a while, and pounce on the new postings. I'm quite certain that I'm the first person to think of this. :P ( Read more... )

I feel better today after having been a zombie all weekend basically. Got off work at around 11:40 in the morning on Saturday after I'd gotten caught up with all of my stuff. *looks around* My desk hasn't been this empty in quite a while.

I picked up some lunch for Cec and me and went home where Cecily had me watch Penelope with Christina ( Read more... )

I am kind of a dingaling. Katie gave me a copy of Writing the Breakout Novel workbook by Donald Maass for my birthday last year. And what I SHOULD have done with it was immediately go into it with Magic Man my heinously obnoxious werewolf story. Instead, I set it aside and allowed it to be buried on my desk until I uncovered it (again) yesterday ( Read more... )

I calculated it this morning. I've written over 36,000 words in thirteen days. Yeeesh! Wish I'd been this fast on my NaNo ( Read more... )