This week's 100 Word Challenge for Grown-Ups, sponsored by Julia's Place blog at the Wordpress, had a very interesting prompt. Per Julia ( Read more... )

The deeper I get into writing this novel (Fearless, that is), the more I wonder whether I can really call this thing a "romance novel ( Read more... )

It's coming down to the wire for NaNoWriMo 2011. Even though I hit the 50K-word count mark a few days ago, I'm still trying to treat this as a hit-quota-per-day adventure as I move into the second arc of the story. There's a bit of catch-up characterization for the main protagonists, here, since I'm jumping forward some in time, both for them and ( Read more... )

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Apparently, the NaNo novel validator does not like the way that LibreOffice does its word count, so while LO tells me I'm above the 50K mark, NaNo is telling me that I've still got about 500 words to go. That's fine, though; I'm not quite at the end of Chapter 6 as of this writing (though I'm really, really close ( Read more... )

Rather than writing some long post about not playing by the NaNoWriMo rules of writing with abandon, I'll let today's bonusparts_fic Twitter feed speak for me:

With pain, scrapped ~1800 words today. But Ross and Amber just didn't want to cooperate. Thankfully, they're being much more accepting, now.

and, two hours later:

This scene I #amwriting ( Read more... )

Quite tired today. Working on about four hours' worth of sleep, and it's starting to take its toll, after a full work day and the cold weather settling in in earnest. Also at a strange part of the story ( Read more... )

When I wrote my NaNoWriMo story for 2007 (Sixes and Sevens), I planned all of the Part and Chapter titles around popular music singles and albums of 1996-1997, since that's when the story took place. For Fearless, I'm using the same formula as I did for 1 More Chance!, which is less structured than what I did for Sixes and Sevens, if perhaps less ( Read more... )

Some people who are low on their wordcount pull out the stops for description, others pile on the incidental dialogue. But I've long known the way to make my wordcount jump, that works for both the story and my satisfaction.

I sex it upThese sections tend to take a bit more concentration, because logic needs to come into play with limb placement ( Read more... )

Lots more music, this time around! I'm not great at putting music together for mood (as you're supposed to do for playlists, the modern equivalent of mix tapes), but the order of the songs sort of corresponds to the action and drama of "Fearless," so it helps me when I write ( Read more... )