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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Grade A Top Choice Meat

No, Glen, not a hot waitress, not a flight attendent.
Today I’ve been thinking about choices characters make.
I’m currently planning through a story I refer to as TC.  On another day I’ll probably tell you some of the recent breakthroughs I’ve had on it.  I’ve got characters, I’ve got a loosely outlined plot, I’ve got the [...]

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All talk; no action…

Today I’m thinking about what happens in scenes.
A few days ago I was writing a loose outline.  It’s a story I’ve been putting together that’s not near ready for actually being written, but I was just writing down the general thinks I knew happened or needed to happen in the best kind of order I [...]

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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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No News Not Necessarily Good

I haven’t written anything since my last post.  I haven’t even tried.  Every time I think about it, I feel vaguely uneasy.  I’ve made up a bunch of dresses for my Etsy shop which I’ll be listing over the next few days, so I haven’t been wholly unproductive, and I was behind on that too.
I [...]

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Nano/COD Update: Day 10

No new stats to report.  Someday, maybe I’ll learn how to handle writing and my brain chemistry, but after beating myself up pretty good the other day, I’ve just taken a break. 
I figured out that if I wrote 2K per day from now on I would still make it.  That sort of made me feel [...]

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