So far this week hasn't been quite as productive as last, but I did get the chapters on the old novel tightened up (I may take another look at one of them, though, just to be sure) and it turns out that the short story I thought would need a lot of revision really only needs a rewrite on the end, so that's good.  The old story I was looking at ( Read more... )

I'm actually sitting here smiling a little at my computer screen because week one of the WaT went so well. Despite a mid-week drain, I somehow (and I really don't know how) managed to get TWO short stories (now known as "shories," thanks to my inability to speak earlier today) through the first draft, then took one of them through two subsequent ( Read more... )

The Clarion West Write-a-thon began today, and I dutifully did my hour of writing after a procrastinatory morning of making sure the cats were not neglected, then an afternoon of catching up on other work and heading to writers' group, where other cats received large helpings of un-neglect. Oh, and csinman 's story made me laugh so hard I could barely ( Read more... )

 I'm in the midst of proofing Write-a-thon participant pages (http://clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/2009), so I thought I'd share a bit of that process with the world.

Step One: Caffeinate. 
This is the most important step of all; I don't recommend proofreading your own ( Read more... )

Hello, LJ-land,

It's been a while, hasn't it? Sadly, the lack of posting has decidedly not been due to burying myself under mounds of writing. Editing, yes, but writing, no. But it's that time of year again. WaT time of year?  Why yes, since you asked. It is.

For those of you who are wondering what kind of editor misspells "what" in her journal posts ( Read more... )

Current WaT progress:

My goal for this week is to reach 21,000 words on the novel-in-progress, which will give me my 7k for the week and then some. So far, I'm doing well enough to go for the worm-colored widget:


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Hooray for widgets! (Thanks to
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Where are my hecklers?  It's five days into the Write-a-thon and I haven't posted, and there is not a squawk of a showtune or a whimper of a snide remark to be heard. I know many of you have the excuse that your own WaTing is keeping you busy, but still ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to cover a few things, so I apologize if this gets long...

First up: Lookie here!  I know I've already announced it, but now it even looks official.

Next up: The WaT

Yes, that's right, the Clarion West Write-a-thon is almost (eek!) upon us.  almost as in it starts on Sunday.

I'm really looking forward to meeting this year's class, one ( Read more... )