Progress report: cards

When last I was here I talked about getting into the habit of using index cards– for quick notes, for organizing thoughts, and eventually for getting visual feel for a story.  Since I’ve got a lot of stuff in my head right now, I set a goal for 10 cards a day.
10 cards has been [...]

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Carding-a beginning to ordering woolly thoughts?

But lately I’ve been thinking about it differently. My current story world has a LOT of different people coming and going. And they tend to come and go the most when I’m not by my handy-dandy electronic notebook. So I’ve been having some new thoughts about jotting down scenes and other story thoughts on index cards…

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Letters to Casey

Feb 28 to April 28. Shall I blog every other month, do you think?
Everything’s different. My dashboard’s all funky. I have no idea what’s happened.
My sewing stuff is just nuts. I’m stressed and busy and still loving it. I’ve had to close up shop and go to custom orders only. [...]

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No Admittance Without Plot

It’ s been awhile.
I’m trying.  Maybe not very hard, maybe not in the most consistent way, but I am.  And the why of it is simply that my head is full of brain dolls, and more show up all the time.
A brain doll is sort of like a character.  But a character is someone whom [...]

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Made In My Image

I know, Wow! a post from me.  Ugh.  It’s just been exotic varieties of awful this fall.  And I’m going to spare you the details of my neuroses and angst over the past few months. 
 You’re welcome.
Anyway, today Kettle gently says: I think that’s why blogging was so good for you.  But then you sort of [...]

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Art: Now with 50% less perspiration

Kettle’s recent post, Do Overs, made me think of something I’ve been musing about for some time.  She started the post with the following quote which I’ll just snag in it’s entirely.
From Madeleine L’Engle {Herself} : Reflections on a Writing Life, p. 19

With free will, we are able to try something new. Maybe it doesn’t work, or [...]

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Nano/COD Update: Day 6

You know, I like to write in scenes.  I write from beginning to end and then I’m wiped.
So it seems to be a bit of an issue that scenes for me are rarely more than 1600 words.
Anyway, 1632 today to total 10009.  That makes me happy.  My heroine told the hero why she was there, [...]

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Series Update

Book 2 just keeps coming at me. 
I came up with a supporting character for this book who I figured would probably get a bigger part later on. 
While I was out grocery shopping the other day, because driving is often good for my head, I had an idea for a hero.  Just a sense of a [...]

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I Feel Backward

There’s a happening that occurs toward the end of my story that I pretty much always knew was there.  It’s something that comes up and forces one character to face their demons to save the other character. 
And, for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to bring this about.  Ugh.  You’ve no idea [...]

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Preparing for NaNoWriMo: More Great Ways to Procrastinate

I’m still not getting anywhere new, really, with my notes.  Mostly what I’ve been doing is writing down blocks of questions that want answering, but the answers aren’t coming.  I’m not part of this world.  I don’t own this story, and I’m not intimate with these characters.
And because I am Pot, I was talking to [...]

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