It has been a long, long stretch of wordlessness, of barely even being able to muster the energy to open up Scrivener and re-read what you've written, let alone come up with something new to add. Unable, even, to implement a simple correction.

I'm not saying this to be dramatic. It has been a drought. That I am writing about this is monumental to ( Read more... )

This summer will be one of journeying to places to find my way back to my creativity.

The first week of summer, the one on  the cusp of the solstice, will be spent on Martha's Vineyard.  It is a single week, and the classes I am choosing to attend are only in the afternoons. But it gives me time to write, spend time with words and navigate my way ( Read more... )

I can't think of what else I could possibly do to get you ready for a final round of edit-implementing before the serious back-to-school business begins ( Read more... )

Right ( Read more... )

Me [writing, or trying to]: what's a quiet little laugh?
B: a guffaw?
me: quiet and little.
B: a gfw?
me: o.0
B: like a teehee. a chuckle.
me: i guess more like a wistful smile at a memory that prolly won't happen but, wouldn't it have been nice.
B: erinnerungsnichtpassierenlächeln.
its a loan word.
like schadenfreude.
me: i wrote my way around it. thank you ( Read more... )

to stop writing in the middle of a sentence so that you could have an easy start when you come back to the story.

I sense a "yeah but"

However, what if the place you leave off at had you stumped the night before and *that* is why you stopped there ( Read more... )

This blasted chapter has me in a perpetual widdendream.

hmmm . . . "Widdendream has been looked up 244 times, favorited once, listed 4 times, commented on 0 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word."

It doesn't really have enough significantly scoring consonants in it anyway for it to be of interest in a good game of Scrabble.

though there are a ( Read more... )

This story has never been one to lie still and be written. It changes POV like some people change their socks, and it doesn't go for the uniformly colored ones either ( Read more... )

Oh man. Intricate chapter is intricate.

I think I've replaced that damn word ten times now.

A bit agitated today?

No! Not at all! Just right now this instant!!!!

OMG!

How perfect is my MC's sweetheart? How unwavering and unquestioning? How faithful and trusting? How patient and determined???

uhm ...

LET ME TELL YOU!

*hides*

He takes a magical attack in which he almost dies by an enemy who emerges because of HER and NEVER QUESTIONS ( Read more... )