Well, more than halfway for me. I'll definitely be hitting 50K today, which is really exciting. I'm thinking that this novel will reach completion around 75K-80K, which is such a relief after last year's beast. My alpha readers are really enjoying the story. This is a very good thing. Making sentences more interesting and cutting out unnecessary ( Read more... )

There, I said it.

I hate editing. I always have. I always will ( Read more... )

Empty Houses will be my NaNo novel for 2010. I can barely even get myself to open my Word doc for The Man, and all I'm doing with that is editing. I tend to get this way in the summer; in a kind of slump I just can't shake. Part of it has to do with the fact that I'm going to be working at two different camps over the next two weeks. It's hard to ( Read more... )

I've been keeping The Man at arm's length. I'm aware of it. I think about it sometimes. But for the most part, I try to ignore it as much as possible. So, imagine my shock when an idea flew through my mind the other day out of the blue.

It's a good idea. No, it's probably a great idea. I think it will solve a lot of the issues I was having with the ( Read more... )

I'm feeling completely and utterly lost right now (and no, the series finale of LOST has nothing to do with this particular sensation). I have this delightful little novel idea in Empty Houses. I've done research. I've written out a crucial plot twist. It's all ready to go. And I just. Can't. Write. It ( Read more... )