I had a really productive day earlier this week, and was feeling good that I’d finally moved past the new scene I’d been struggling with. Finally, I thought to myself, we’re going to make some real progress again. I had 78 pages […]
I was, perhaps, a bit too optimistic in my update last week about getting back on the editing horse. I got very little done this week, I’m ashamed to say. Looking at my word tracker for the month, April has been pretty […]
Hello, friends. I apologize for my unannounced absence last week. It was a planned absence, as my wonderful mother was here from the East Coast to spend the week with me and my sister. I’d meant to post a little note advising […]
Today I was out enjoying the sunshine and just generally walking around my neighbourhood. At one point, my companion and I stopped in a little parkette, close to the main road. Sitting there chatting, we started playing that game I think all […]
I woke up last Sunday with a sore throat and a bit of a cough, but not enough to interfere with my blogging and editing. It got worse that night though, and I spent this past week feeling tired, woozy and generally […]
Hello friends. I return, as promised, after a week away for a writing retreat. I was with the same group of people last year for a similar weekend. We were at a different location this year and had an extra day, but […]
An important milestone happened yesterday – I hit the halfway point in editing my novel. When I checked my word count, I randomly decided to see how many words I had remaining, and I was almost exactly at the midpoint. The work […]
It’s been a pretty quiet week, writing-wise, with the usual struggles and victories of motivation and editing. Which is to say that some days I didn’t edit, but then other days I did, and so the work continues. One thing I’ve decided […]
Obviously, it’s not actually Groundhog Day. I’m a bit late on that if we want to be technical. But I’m feeling like it’s Groundhog Day in the movie sense, in that we’ve gotten to the end of February and here I am […]
As I worked through my edits this week, some of the feedback one of my alpha readers included stopped me dead in my editing session. It was a point about my main characters; namely that they had interesting personalities and characterizations, but […]