Ug, maybe I can’t do it

NaNoWriMo that is. I’ve totally fallen off the wagon, writing only one day in the last week! Everything is messy here, everyone has been sick and I’m so tired, most of the weekend was spent out of the house and there just seems to be no time at all.
Or rather, when the baby sleeps, there [...]

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Re-envisioning

I had a creative writing lecturer who was adamant that the second draft of a story be pretty much completely different. Revision, he said, was another way to say ‘re-envision’ which meant you pulled out the core elements of the story, twisted them up and plopped them down on the page again. In his mind, [...]

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I can still do this

So, I’ve had three days off writing… I just have not been in the right place to get anything done and when I tried last night all I wanted to do was sleep! Yesterday afternoon when I normally would have written I slept, because I was up most of the night with a sick baby.
I’m [...]

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Squee!

Maybe a day off was exactly what I needed, because I wrote just over 4,500 words yesterday!
Feeling so thrilled about it as well, loving the direction Chasing Ascension is taking and I managed to write a first draft for the search term challenge as well, though whether it’s actually good enough to put forward I’m [...]

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A day off writing

I didn’t write a word yesterday… initially I thought that I might put something together for A.M.Harte’’s searchterm writing challenge, but no ideas are jumping up and down and my brain is pretty fried.
If you haven’t yet put an entry in, there is still time! Check out the first stories up here and here, both well [...]

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What do you mean it’s only the 5th?

I almost fell off the wagon yesterday, the writing one that is. I was tired, I still am tired… totally frustrated by the lack of time in my day for writing, by many other little things that I’m not going to bitch about here, and life in general that I almost let it get to [...]

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Sharing with the partner/spouse

Two nights ago, hubby was reading over my shoulder as I tried to write…. he was like ‘Lissa huh?’
And I said ‘What are you doing!!! You don’t read, why are you reading? You’ve never shown an interest, why now?’ Thinking, of all the times to start reading my writing, why a first draft, as I [...]

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Two day in, 4.5k down

only 44,500 words to go! well, this month anyways…
The thing is, even when I reach 50K I can’t stop, this novel will probably see me through til the end of the year, and my daily word goal will drop back to 1.5k once November ends.
I’ve hit the end of my planning, so from here on [...]

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Nov 1st

Today has been frustrating, to say the least. To begin with, my PC was having issues and wouldn’t load up properly, then of course the girls were very needy of my time… then we were out of the house between 9.30am and 3pm. Finally got home, got Lauren to sleep and then Ivy woke her [...]

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The final hours of October

It’s 3hours now until November hits, and with it, two projects. We all know I’m participating in National Novel Writing Month, but what you don’t know (well, I guess now you do) is that my lovely husband is going to be taking part in Movember.
While growing a mo doesn’t take as much effort as writing [...]

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