Learning all the time
The interesting thing about actively working on one novel-in-progress and having another in the back of my mind is that as I get help on the active one, I sometimes think of things that will help the...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 5/25/14: the weight of utter hopelessness
Can you believe it? Not only another Sunday, but it's almost June :-) I live in a cold-winter climate and am ecstatic that there are leaves on the trees again! Picking up with my NaNo story...
View ArticleWriters paying it forward
I've been tagged in a meme that asks some pointed questions of writers. It's a neat "pay it forward" idea put out there by Frank "Chip" Etier, who's been a steady contributor at Weekend Writing...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 6/21/2014: Breaking your promise, now this!
Hello everybody J Happy summer, at last! Thanks for coming back, even when I don’t post consistently! I’m continuing with my Draft 1 work-in-progress, tentatively titled Night Shift although I’m...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors: 7/13/14 I'm no shrinking violet!
Hello all. Because I’ve been getting such great comments on my WIP novel (tentatively entitled Night Shift) I’m continuing immediately from last week’s post. Important to know for this week’s excerpt:...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 7/27/14: It sure looked like you destroyed him!
How did it get to be late July already? I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure I’m quite over last winter :-/ We may have a stormy Sunday morning here in Western New York though that’s great WeWriWa...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 8/3/14: This Rotten Life
It’s the weekend again, and we’re off! Not to the races but to the Weekend Writing Warriors blog hop. Way more fun, if you ask me. Pick up to 8 sentences from a work of yours (published or not), sign...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 8/10/14: It's easier if you just disappear
Hey peeps, nice to see you :-) I had a long afternoon fighting with the woodwork around a couple of windows that needed new hardware for curtains 0.0 Old houses, yikes! So if anything in today’s...
View ArticleSailing the wide sea of possibilities
The plot. Does anybody besides me involuntarily shudder when they think about the plot? If your plots usually come together without much trouble, I salute you. Mine don’t, le sigh. They look coherent,...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 8/17/14: I can fix it--don't want anything in...
Well well, it looks like the weekend again! In my case a dreary, non-summer weekend but at least we’re not getting the floods or firestorms that others are. Dreary works, though, because that means...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 8/24/14: It's creepy when you do that
Welcome to my contribution to the Weekend Writing Warriors blog hop! Today I give you an excerpt of my WIP Night Shift that comes pre-packaged in a group of 8 sentences. I was quite pleased to find...
View ArticleCollected excerpts for Night Shift II
Hi. This is the second post for collected excerpts of the story I've tentatively titled Night Shift. This is all from Draft 1. I expect many of the details will change in the next draft and maybe some...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 9/14/14: A horrible night passes
Welcome to my contribution to the Weekend Writing Warriors blog hop! First I have to apologize for not being able to visit as many people as I wanted over the last two weeks. Real life completely ate...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 9/28/14: There Is A Caveat
Hi peeps :-) I want to get back to posting for Weekend Writing Warriors regularly again. Haven’t heard of us? We’re the neat little writers blog hop where authors post no more than eight sentences...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 10/5/14: A second chance is not free
We’re Weekend Writing Warriors, the neat little writers blog hop where authors post eight sentences from a work of theirs, published or not, live on their blog by 9 am US Eastern time Sundays. Then we...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 10/12/14: Why do you hold back?
We’re Weekend Writing Warriors, the neat little writers blog hop where authors post eight sentences from a work of theirs, published or not, live on their blog by 9 am US Eastern time Sundays. Then we...
View ArticleWeekend Writing Warriors 10/19/14: You're stuck with me
Good morning peeps, or afternoon, or evening, wherever you are! Welcome to my post for Weekend Writing Warriors. For the next week or two I’m going to stay in the current chapter for my paranormal...
View ArticleNaNo rebelling 2014
Hi peeps. Who's doing NaNo? I've signed on as a rebel this year to finish my outline for Night Shift and hopefully get a solid start on writing chapters. Still doing a bit of research. It's challenging...
View ArticleOutlining, as seen by a pantser
This is my first try at making an outline. Now that I'm 7 pages into it and approaching the climax of the plot, it's not as awful as I feared. In fact it's similar to writing a first draft, just less...
View ArticleAnd that, friends, is why I haven't progressed further on my outline
Me to muse: Come on, empty that Magickal Crockpot. I know there's something else in there. Muse: But how can there be? Look, it's empty! Me: Uhm, I see bits of something clinging to the bottom. Muse...
View ArticleYA YA! I did it :-D Two announcements
Announcement #1 -- I finished the outline for Night Shift :-D I've never written one before but here it is, in its shiny imperfection. There are 3 or 4 minor holes, to be honest. No, really, minor...
View ArticleChanges made and changes passed up
Gaaah! It's hard to toss stuff you like. Kicking characters out into the ether is bad enough, but somehow it's worse when I have to drop scenes that have quality interplay between characters. I'm...
View ArticleCliffhangered
LOL - I just cliffhangered myself! Am reading the rest of draft one of Night Shift, so I have a better sense of how to handle the details left out of the outline. Read the last chapter I wrote over a...
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