I have not posted a real post in like, the longest time. I read my flist daily and hang around other people's LJs/DWs, but posting, not so much. Things have been kind of insane-busy of late.

(1) Work. Multiple projects. Colleagues on vacations at the exact wrong time(2) On a marathon draft of my novel. This will take a while. I have sort of ( Read more... )

January talking meme, Jan 23. From cactuswatcher: If you were asked to write a series of novels with the same central characters, what qualities do you think a protagonist's significant other should have and why? Should they be faithful, duplicitous, honest, suspicious, helpful, boring, good listeners ( Read more... )

Sunday, I hit a wall with my novel. I have been working on the action parts of the story for most of this month, and had 7-8 scene/chapters left to go and just could not figure out how to write them. Ends are tricky. In some ways, they ARE the novel, because they are what everything is building up to. Whatever your novel is ABOUT is encapsulated in ( Read more... )

I am moving ahead, but much of the descriptive part of my chapters is on hold until I can make a "business trip" to San Francisco to get a "you are there" feel. That's set for mid-February. Too much else going on before then.


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My mom has been grounded for a few weeks waiting for her eye doctor to sign off on her driver's license and the paperwork on that to go through, so I've had a few early mornings driving her to errands and appointments. Since mornings are my best writing time, that's taken a bite out of NaNo ( Read more... )

Pluggin' and chuggin'


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Day nine already and I've fallen officially behind. But that was by design. I realized I was just writing to get each chapter done, and the writing kinda sucked. All talking heads, nothing interesting going on. So I've stepped back to think about the scenes: what's happening to the characters, what emotions need to be conveyed, and think about how ( Read more... )

Not falling behind in my planned writing schedule quite yet, but it could happen because I am aiming for quality, not just quantity. I am trying to stretch my writing and not just pound out whatever ( Read more... )

Action is a mixed bag. So many scenes amount to talking heads not doing a whole lot, and it's really hard to make that not… boring. And then, when you do have a real actiony action scene, it's a lot of work. I keep reminding myself a draft is a draft, even if it's the second draft. It doesn't have to be perfect. I reinvisioned a lot of this novel, ( Read more... )

So I worked out a crazy-@ssed percentage system to work with my writing plan. I figure by this system that I started my day with draft 2 about 34.65 percent done, and ended my day at 37.13.

Good thing NaNo is getting started with a weekend.


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