Today was writing day; I'm working on revision and polishing for the books from NaNo09 and '10. Today I got 4 or 5 chapters sufficiently to the point that I sent them off to my new critique partner, and have 4 more in shape for solid polishing in the next few days ( Read more... )

25,125 words, it's four hours until midnight. Keep writing, fingers!

34 percent done! Hurrah!

Well, today we discover whether I made it to the Quarterfinals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards.  As Glee remarked, there's possibly more chance than making it onto a pro basketball team, but not much. ;-)

IF I made it, the excerpt from the novel I wrote in Nano will be available on Amazon -- and I'll be begging people to read and review ( Read more... )

Terie Gerrison is coming to my birthday party in England. I met her on the Jenny Crusie NaNoWriMo support list. Glee asked me what else she had written, since she had 5000 words left to go on her NaNo manuscript and had to stop because her editor for her next book wanted edits back Right Now. And I found this. Way, way cool. I picked up used copies ( Read more... )

Several folk said they would be willing to be first readers -- people who read and comment on the sense & flow and words as well as grammar, etc. for my NaNo novel. If you were one, please put your email in a response below. I've screened them, so your privacy is safe.

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I have a good excuse for only writing 1700 words tonight.

While I was in the middle of adding a description of one of the characters (I realized no one knows how anyone looks), I got a phone call from an unknown number. Hmmm. I answered, and a man's voice says, "Is this Patricia McGregor?"

"Yes.." (cautiously

"Would you like to come get your CAR? I ( Read more... )

Since I missed almost 4 days of writing, and lost almost 2000 words on the computer that was stolen, I've both bummed out and determined to get caught back up ( Read more... )

I'll meet her at Christmas, but what a terrific surprise. Something to talk about right away!!