Dear Diary, Yesterday was Day Seven of Camp. And things got a little hairy. The day job duties piled up while the work phone rang off the hook, house-sitting tasks had to be done, extra errands ran, the hound dog wandered off for 24 hours and the sister's toy Pomeranian, which I'm also dog-sitting for the next two weeks, vanished from the yard. Travel plans for this weekend's journey to Nebraska for a wedding still had to be made. There was certainly no time for lunch, much less for working ... View Post
Camp NaNoWriMo Diaries: Day Six – Whereupon I Face My Greatest Fear … Editing
Dear Diary, Yesterday was Day Six of Camp. Due to my decision to enter the Weta Nichols Writing Contest, I thought my Camp goal would switch (hopefully only shortly) to editing the first 2500 words of the first chapter (the contest's maximum limit - my first chapter is closer to 4k words, I think) in preparation for submission. The contest due date is July 15th. Not much time there. So, yesterday, I began those edits, at the standard Camp NaNo conversion rate of 1 hour of editing = 1000 ... View Post
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
Camp NaNoWriMo Diaries: Day Three – When Tired Brains are Tired
Dear Diary, Yesterday was Day Three of Camp. Sure feels like I'm settling into the routine now. And my bunkmates are doing superbly. I'm so proud of all of them! We are rockin' this thing this year! We are awesome, if I do say so myself! But yesterday was difficult. It was pre-Independence Day, you see. So it's a short work week. And that means the same amount of work has to be crammed into fewer days. Not so much fun. Also, my plan to write over lunch hour was demolished by the ... View Post
Camp NaNoWriMo Diaries: Day Two – Wherein the Story Knows More Than I Do
Dear Diary, Yesterday was Day Two of Camp NaNoWriMo. It only took two days this time for the story to remind me it's really the one in charge. (I suppose this means I'm improving as a writer? Takes much less time these days to re-connect with the story, to get in The Zone? Well, I'll just pretend that's what it means, yes ...) Months of internal debate, wall-sized plotting and notebook scribbling devoted to trying to figure out what comes next, and all it took was the equivalent of roughly ... View Post
Bait, Fish, and Reel Report May 2014
Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ‘em in, all at the same time”! This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing to cultivate new ideas for future projects. In case you missed my previous post on this subject, at the end of every month I compile a list of what I accomplished as far as ... View Post
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