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July 6, 2014

Camp NaNoWriMo Diaries: Day Five – On Which Nothing Was Written

Dear Diary, Yesterday was Day Five of Camp. And I wrote NOTHING.  Not a single word.  Well, okay, so I wrote a diary entry, but we'll not count that. No progress was made on the novel, at least. I feel slightly guilty, since I left the protagonists in a rather precarious, terribly emotional state. But that's probably better.  Easier place to pick up where I left off if it's right in the thick of things. Anyway, I want Pavel to stew for a bit, really think about how he feels about this new ... View Post

Filed Under: Camp NaNoWriMo, Living the Vision, The Learning Curve, Writing Tagged With: book in a month, distractions, genre issues, progress report, realization, the good thing, writing

July 1, 2013

Professional Feedback Round #2: "Cheetah on the Roof"

This weekend I attended the New Letters Writing Conference at UMKC as a noncredit "student".  After having just attended both the RT Booklovers Convention and the writing panels at KC, MO's ConquesT 44 science fiction convention, this very-much-more-structured and heavily literary conference was something of a... um... well, completely and utterly different world, lol - although it ended up being just as helpful and informational.  But I'll get into that in another post.  The purpose of this ... View Post

Filed Under: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, Conventions and Workshops, Living the Vision, The Learning Curve, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: cheetah on the roof, cotr, genre issues, manuscript evaluation, professional feedback, workshop, writing

July 24, 2009

PROGRESS! In a manner of speaking…

I feel much better since that last post.  I'm a lot more on track now than I was then.  I only have one chapter left to write on my latest Mass Effect fanfiction, and then my cursed fanfic plot bunnies are being put away in a deep dark hole for awhile.  Despite having written the last posted chapter of "Oligo" (I squeezed it out in about three days of marathon writing... hubby was not happy about being ignored but I needed it out of my system!), and sort ... View Post

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cheetah on the roof, genre issues, guardian angel, progress report, Uncategorized

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