Nano/COD Update: Day 3

Such exciting post titles for me lately.
So, what did we learn today.  Well, I learned the following:

One cannot intimidate the Nano site with how many times in a row one can hit refresh.  It doesn’t care.  It is not impressed.
When making icing, don’t just put in the listed ingredients, pay attention to the consistency.  It’s [...]

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Nano/COD Update: Day 2

Ugh.  I just crawled through a patch of guy talk to introduce my hero.  The heroine just walked onstage and put me out of my misery, thank goodness.  But I know I’ve hit the point where I need to go to bed and I’m not going to do good work, so I’m going to stop [...]

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WIP Clip Wednesdays: Why’d She Have To Walk Onto Mine?

So even though I won’t be doing any Nano writing until Thursday, and there’s still one more writingless evening to go, I cannot get this lyric out of my head!
“This is the last, worthless evening, that you’ll have to spend…”
Well, rather than save that line to title some lame pre-Nano post tomorrow, it seems appropriate enough [...]

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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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Sweat 2: First Check-in Day

Should have done this earlier.  Did you remember?   Just a quick post before I go check in with Sven, partly just to figure out what to tell him.  Also partly because I told you that I’d talk a bit more specifically about my as yet unnamed project.  Hey, wanna give me a working title?
So no words [...]

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WIP Clip Wednesdays: Though You’re Still With Me…

…I’ve been alone all along. 
Well, I just didn’t know what to give you this week.  So you’re getting a little clip from a former WIP.  This is from a story called “Everything’s Made to Be Broken”.  We met the heroine just before she learned of the death of her best friend.  Driving across the country [...]

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Sweat 2 Begins…Somebody Save Me

So today is the first day of Seventy Days of Sweat Round 2.  Seems like that should have a catchy tagline. 
So what am I doing?  Nothing much, besides trying to give Kettle some needed encouragement.  I’m definitely not ready with my ideas and I’m glad I have another 2 weeks before Nano starts to get [...]

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WIP Clip Wednesday: My Girl

Since I’m in a note-making phase right now, I don’t really have a work-in-progress from which to clip.  I remembered notes to a story I had, and a scene I had written and thought I would work well for a snippet this week.  But wouldn’t you know, if I ever actually wrote it (and I [...]

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WOTM Update: Plotting the End

I just dumped a few more words I’ve been working on into the draft, updated my counters, and then I went back to the post where I started the Sweat and checked my math.  Turns out I was off by a few hundred words.  In my favor, so that was nice, but I’m still over [...]

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