Not bad, but not great. I still made forward motion, and I definitely got a better handle on Jason and Martin, who are secondary characters to Chloe. I decided to keep the first person POV, because that really gives Chloe a lot of her voice. Plus it’s sort of the…
I’m pretty happy. I did a lot of dicking around early in the evening, and this is after a 4:30 dental appointment that took forever (first cleaning in four years, but no cavities, hurrah!) and picking up windows at the hardware store. So I have the first two scenes written,…
Been fiddling around at the NaNoWriMo website today, and I write the synopsis for my planned NaNo novel. Thought I’d share it here just for fun: Chloe is Catholic, a cop, and conventional, not necessarily in that order. But when a run-of-the-mill burglary arrest goes bad, she ends up dead.…
I’ve got a huge long write-up of the Writers Police Academy I need to post, but in the meantime, I just want to register my excitement about NaNoWriMo tonight. I’ve been working on the main character since last week, and during the weekend at WPA I got some great ideas.…
I’ve edited this thing again. Now I’m happier with the query letter than I am the novel! Illinois native Zeva Couran is really tired of the starving artist shtick. She still loves the craft of pottery; it’s the starving she has a problem with. When she’s attacked in the street…
After a frustrating start, I’ve managed to be pretty productive tonight. I cleaned off my desk so I’d have a lot of space to spread out the manuscript printout that I’d scribbled all over…and then couldn’t find the first 27 pages. After a while I remembered (vaguely) that I had…
In the interest of pure honesty, I have only managed 500 words once since making my new goals five days ago. Part of me feels like a failure and part of me has decided that I’m going on vacation in three days and bugger those goals. I find myself frustrated.…
OK I am setting writing goals for myself starting today. I’m going to make myself write 500 words of my short story before I get online. I’ve decided that I have two years of warning before my job goes away, and what if I try to position myself so that…
I rewrote the beginning of Shaper so that the first two hundred words are snappier, have less drama but more action, and hopefully get to the catalyst event quicker. How sad is it that this feels like a major accomplishment?
I was having a conversation with megburden about this scene. It made up about ~3500 words out of the ~36k I managed from NaNo09, but this 1% turned out to change the course of a lot of the novel from here on out. The Goblin Market became a character of…
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