Well, if not perfect, then at least progress. Faster, easier, smoother progress. That’s what I’m hoping for anyway. I’ve started three different drafts of the story I refer to only as Amnesia Conspiracy on this blog. Each one failed for different reasons. Draft #1 had compelling character voices, but lacked any kind of plot. Draft […]
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It has been a pathetically long time since I’ve talked about my own writing on this blog. I’m always up for discussing books that I loved or stories that resonated with me, but I don’t tend to stay mum about my own work for months on end. I like to talk about what I’m writing,
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The first time I got serious about editing one of my own manuscripts, I had no idea what I was doing. In the two or so years that I revised and queried, I actually lost count of the number of different drafts saved on my computer. Part of my difficulty came from trying to figure
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I don’t remember how many times I’ve mentioned Amnesia Conspiracy on this blog in the last few months. Probably more than usual, since I was/still am participating in the YAB Spring Boot Camp and regularly updating my progress. For a while I had this self-imposed moratorium on talking about Amnesia Conspiracy, like I was going
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I know, I know. This is actually check-in #7, but I was lazy and running behind last week so the usual post didn’t happen. These days, it feels like I set goals for myself so that I can have the pleasure–ha!–of breaking them later. But for good reasons, I swear! My initial goal for April
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Another slow-ish week, but since I kind of saw this one coming I’m not going to complain too much. Finishing edits for one of my CPs kind of feels like a huge accomplishment in and of itself. I’m glad all the time I put in on those this week paid off. I did manage to
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This week’s update is going to be a quick one, as I continue my trend of alternating good productivity followed by total uselessness. Did not meet my big goal for the end of the month, which was to finish my revisions for Facing the Music. I’m disappointed, but I’m not that surprised either. I was
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After the great computer muddle from hell, I seem to have gotten back on track. One of the thing goals I’d been dying to accomplish this week was to get more drafting done. And man oh man, did I ever! For at least a week and a half I’ve been languishing on chapter five in
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About a month ago, I blogged about creativity as a muscle and how my own personal slump had left me empty and unable to be productive. I’ve let that post sit far longer than I meant to, but for once my reasons were good ones. There are still some health issues in the works–mostly physical,
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So, we can just pretend this last week never happened, right? Right? We’ve all agreed that last week was polluted water under a bridge that you’ve just blown up? Just me? Oh. Okay. I had the best of intentions, I really did. Monday and Tuesday weren’t 1k or more word count days, but there was
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