The beauty of discovery

I love to go into a novel not knowing exactly where it might lead me. For me, that’s one of the joys of writing.
I’ve just discovered a new benefit to this method as well! For me anyway… I mean, I never go into a novel thinking ‘oh yeah, I think I might broach this slightly [...]

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Friday

I can’t believe this week is coming to a close already! It’s been my most productive one in a really long time – after I put up my last post I pressed on with the writing and crossed 20K that night, and last night saw me up past 21,500 words. I love it, and hope [...]

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What’s this? Progress? Surely not!

I’ve been pretty quiet the last few days, for a couple reasons. I’m still sick, and the computer bits arrived – last night Hubby spent the whole night pulling things apart and putting them back together again and now I have… well, basically it’s his old computer with my harddrive in it. Oh well, whatever, [...]

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Losing track of time

This long weekend has gotten me all muddled up. I feel like I’ve lost a day somewhere, somehow.
This is not good. Not really. I need all the time that I can get.
The good news is that Lauren has been sleeping through til 230am for almost a week now, which means I’m getting 5+ hours in [...]

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Climbing out of the hole

It’s been a rough week, really. Not a lot has been done around the house, or with my writing.
Ah well! I’m not going to feel bad about it, though hubby has finally complained about the lack of clean work clothes – I simply told him that the fairy who does his laundry must have gone [...]

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The Pox

That’s right. Chicken pox… Ivy has it. Awesome. Two girls at home and zero time for writing, or atleast, writing well. All good!
Life has been kicking my ass the last few days. So I really haven’t been anywhere near as productive (in any area of my life) as I would like to be – there [...]

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Let the writing madness begin!

So, Tama has roped me into playing writing games with him again – his motivation always seems to be boosted by keeping game characters alive, and my motivation always gets boosted by the thought of kicking his butt by being more productive
It’s a pretty good combination really, works well for both of us.
This [...]

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Feeling a little better

Somehow I’ve managed to feel a little less tired today – not sure entirely how that works but oh well!
As a result, I’ve managed to write some more on TCM after a couple of days off. I did do some other writing those days, I just didn’t trust myself with the WIP. It’s nice to [...]

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Beyond exhaustion

I think it’s safe to say that’s where I am at right now. I’m so tired that I could cry. In fact, I have cried about it a few times in the last couple of days!
I faked motivation this morning and cleaned the house, so at least I’m feeling less like a crappy wife than [...]

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Learning curves

Well, this round of critiques is almost over, and I have to say I’ve come out of it a lot better off than the last time.
With my first story I got 8 crits, and while most of them were helpful, they really only applied to that particular story. There were so many conflicting opinions about [...]

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