Category: Writing process
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Quick Update and Need for Beta Reader
The rumors of my demise have been seriously exaggerated! I’ve been busy on client work, still trying to get the whole “work-life” balance thing straightened out and working on the fiction. I’m still writing the second in my Jazz and Slade series, Visitor to Blue Lake: A Jazz & Slade Story and by jove this time…
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Update on Visitor to Blue Lake…I’ve no idea!
Update on Visitor to Blue Lake. Surprise! I’ve no idea where or when this story will end! lol I’m just north of 16,000 words so it’s definitely not a short story anymore (as I had intended at first, ha!). But that’s okay, because I’m having fun writing it, so hopefully readers will have fun reading it!…
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Reminders
Memory is a funny thing…at least in my experience. I’ll remember odd bits and pieces about things like my ex-husband’s social security number, but I’ll forget passwords to websites that I should remember. Weird, huh? My husband can remember his grade school locker combination, names of kids he went to school with in Kindergarten for…
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One of Those Writing Days
Instead of wrapping up the story neatly in a few paragraphs where one of my characters explains what they have discovered to the other to resolve the story problem (yawn) I realized that… I need more conflict. Lots of it, actually. Right now I’m thinking a complete rewrite of some of it isn’t out of…
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Quick Update on The progress of Visitor to Blue Lake
Just a quick update before heading off to bed. Did 380 out of the 800 words I needed for today. Slow, but steady. God willing tomorrow I’ll get my 800 words plus more on top! Good evening everyone, hope this finds you well, dear reader! 😀
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Deadlines
I’m really particular about meeting deadlines. At least deadlines for work that I’m doing for others. But unfortunately, I seem to discount deadlines I set for myself. Any idea why that might be? (Calling all therapists, psychologists and the like…including the armchair variety! 😛 ) With deadlines I do for other people I’m typically getting…
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What Works for Me
In terms of writing fiction, what works for me NOW may not be the same a few years from now. Or maybe it will be…who knows? Learning I’ve been listening to podcasts, webinars, email video mini-courses, etc. all designed to help me with my writing (both in craft and in business) but the one thing…
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Weekend Whizzed…
By…that’s what I was going to say! The weekend flew by, like two kids chasing a runaway kite. Friday was here…it was a good day, work completed for the week, ready to take care of miscellaneous errands, etc. and then the next thing I know, it’s Sunday night, time for me to get some sleep…
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Discipline Isn’t Always a Dirty Word
Discipline. To a child it means “oops, I’m in trouble.” To an adult it means “staying on a diet” or “doing what I have to do.” To both a child and an adult then, discipline has a negative connotation. Merriam-Webster expands on that narrow definition. My favorite definition is number 5c; “self control” punishment obsolete…
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Business Plan Review, Adjustment & Trying Something New
At the beginning of the year I had a very ambitious plan to write one short story per week. Of course, that plan went down in flames. No surprise, in fact, I think my inner critic was snickering at my goal setting endeavors, because when I reviewed my business plan today (only 7 days behind…