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  • Coming faster now

    With just a little more than 8,000 words to write to hit the 90K mark needed for a single-title contemporary, I’m finding words are just pouring out of my head an onto the page. Where was all this enthusiasm last week, when I needed it to end the NaNo with a less-pathetic word count? Oh […]

  • It’s in the mail

    This time, I mean my Golden Heart entry β€” all 246 pages of it, plus the disk withΒ  my full MS on it. I dropped it off at the post office sometime between 11 a.m. and noon. It felt like such a momentous occasion. I was so darn proud of myself I had to call […]

  • Using ink …

    I’m not going to say “wasting,” even if that’s what it feels like. That’s right. I printed out the first 48 pages of my MS, which is where I want to end my GH entry, and my still-6-ish-page synopsis yesterday. I figure that sometimes I see things on paper that I don’t see on my […]

  • Blogging seems to be falling by the wayside

    As I get more involved in rewriting Brad and Erin’s story, I’m finding less and less time to blog β€” both here and on my other blog. I guess I should take that as a good sign, eh? πŸ˜€ Today, I had a pleasant lunch (complete with sinful dessert) with a writer friend from NARWA. […]