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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Nano/COD Update: Day 7

So my update for yesterday.  Hard hit by the plague, and even though I had to spend most of the day being still so I could keep breathing, I didn’t get much writing done.  It should have been a good time to get ahead, but I just couldn’t think straight. 
 By the end of the day, [...]

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WIP Clip Wednesday: No Politics at the Table

So our heroine, Colby, sailed into town to recruit our hero, Mac, into the organization for which she works.  Since Mac’s coworkers had just been talking about his long-time girlfriend, Grace, whom none of them have ever met, they assumed Colby was Grace.  To fill in the gap where Mac should have stepped in and [...]

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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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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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COD Update: Day One Part 2

I sat down for my regular evening writing session and added another 1264 for a total of 2949 for Day 1.  Yay!  I had outlined three scenes for myself in a pretty detailed fashion to get myself started.  All used up now.  Tomorrow I guess I have to work harder.  But that’s ok.  I need [...]

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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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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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