I’ve decided to attend the Bay to Ocean writing conference this year. My father gave me the information on this conference for the first time almost 10 years ago. A few years ago, I’d introduced my friend Stephanie Dray to this conference, who ended up attending. I had wanted to go with her that year, but was still intimidated by the idea of ( Read more... )

But, don't expect it to last long. I will be distracted by a cruise next week ( Read more... )

So, two weeks ago I spent most of the weekend at the boyfriend's house going over what I have written of my manuscript on the pirate story, making notes about where to make edits, and making very minor revisions as a part of a way to review a story that I have not looked at for the better part of a year. Tonight, I finished putting those edits into ( Read more... )

Again, not anything significant, just tying up some loose ends that will definitely need editing later. Word count up another 319, for a total of 11,969 words.

Woo

At least that's some forward progress rather than no progress.

No, I'm not going to do NaNoWriMo.

Yesterday I finished writing one of my scenes. It'll need editing because I hate the ending, but at least it is finished. It also did not bring the word count up much. I'd intended to write more, but got rather distracted. So, the word count is only up by 200. So, from 11,464 to something like 11,650 ( Read more... )

It appears that I just need to ask the characters to give me their names. Or, at least, that’s the way it seems. After I posted asking, they appeared ( Read more... )

During the slow periods at work, I’ve been writing on my book again. The book has taken on a new life. It’s expanded. I’m now up to a total of 10,009 words. This might seem small potatoes to everyone who’s written a book before, but given my track record with writing, and starting projects only to abandon them completely, this is quite an ( Read more... )

You might have noticed that I have raised the Pirate Flag.

I have finished reading 'Sisters of the Sea', about Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

I am now reading 'Seafaring Women', a book paultucker got for me for my birthday. It is by the same author as 'Under the Black Flag', which I already owned - but have only read in part ( Read more... )

I've been tossing ideas back and forth about what to write about, and despite the fact that I have some very good ideas for different stories, the pirate story is sticking with me. So, thusly, I am going to be cheating with NaNoWriMo a bit, and using that. I only had 5,000 words, approximately, maximum, written last year. So that just means I'll ( Read more... )

As some of you know, I’ve been working on writing a book. The book will have something to do with pirates, and will have a strong female leading figure. This story is something that has been brewing for a long time, and I actually managed to write something on it, though briefly, in NaNoWriMo last year. I didn’t get very far, partially because I ( Read more... )