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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The Obligatory End of Sweat Challenge Post

Today I had hoped to have 60K words written since July 12, and a completed novel somewhere between 90K and 100K.  I didn’t get that far.  What I ended up with was 48416 for the Challenge and 84700 overall. 
And I’m totally ok with that. 
I’d do the Dorothyesque what-I-learned bit, but I just did it at [...]

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Friday Snippet #6: WOTM Begins

Now that you guys know me a bit, know my style, I thought I might give you very beginning of this story.  I’m coming up to the end of the first draft and will be coming back to rework this soon. 
So I want to know what you think.  Is it a good beginning?  Would you [...]

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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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WOTM Update: Skippage

I ended up skipping over the fight last night.  During the day, I could really see the scene that follows it, so I did that instead.  I wrote a bit more than half of this scene, and left off right before they find out the thing that sends them on the run.
Right after that comes [...]

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WOTM Update: We’re Caught in a Trap

For those of you who are now plagued by Elvis and “Suspicious Minds”, I apologize.  Me too.
But hey.  That’s where they are.  Caught in a trap.
Tomorrow, hopefully, there will be much sexy fighting.  Tonight, hopefully, there will be sleeping for me.
1652 words.  I’m at 82374.
Goodnight.
We’re caught in a trap
I can’t walk out
Because I love you [...]

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WOTM Update: Another Day Leaves Me Aching

So I’ve been laying a-ha lyrics on you lately…
Another day leaves me aching
I try to wake up
But somethings breaking
Here inside me
Deep and hollow
A sound that no other sound could follow
I know the pain
Before the wound
East of the sun
And west of the moon
I dumped 5085 words into my draft today.  It’s the first stuff I’ve finished [...]

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Friday Snippet #5: Simon’s Fantasy

I wasn’t even going to put up a snippet this week.  But then I read Kettle’s and Bri’s because I couldn’t resist seeing what they had up, and I wanted to play too.  And then this is what I picked out?  I really wasn’t going to show you this, but I didn’t know what else to give [...]

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If I Could I Would I Swear

That’s actually an a-ha lyric, to go along with the blog title and tag-line theme.  Actually, I’m not sure it’s true.  Maybe I can, but I just won’t.  I’m just too far down right now, and I can’t generate enough energy to take their stuff on and write it out.  I’ve got too many of my [...]

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Quick Update on Nothing

I think you can now appreciate how much Kettle’s work habits affect mine.  What day did she finish her manuscript.  She’s been taking a well-deserved writing break, catching up on some reading and some neglected home-stuff, etc..  But without her just being around writing all the time, well, it’s even harder for me to make myself [...]

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