I don’t know if I feel accomplished or annoyed… I managed to get closer to my usual routine for writing, blogging and posting! And yet the darn short story I wanted to write, the one that is running around in my brain, under development, has not yet made it onto the page. Some days you…
I am going to do it. It is going to happen. The words will find their way onto the page. I wouldn’t say I have writer’s block…more like pregnancy-fog and mom-brain. I hit this point with my last pregnancy where my creativity came to a grinding halt. I knew it was in there, bubbling under…
Me, when the deadline for the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge is approaching but you still have to write the synopsis. Still waiting for inspiration. Hoping the words will appear on the screen. Marveling at how the word “synopsis” looks funny after staring at it for five minutes. Forcing some words onto the page. Deleting them…
Today is Day 3 of 8 for the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge, 2017! Many of us stayed up late Friday night (present company included) only to learn the servers at NYC Midnight crashed! (At midnight, the hour of assignment release, of course!) So some of us did not get our assignments until Saturday morning,…
My answer is not actually up there…today I’m writing secretively! Today I’m teaching an all day class, so will have to limit my writing to during video clips, possibly the lunch break and after the class ends (but before an evening instructor meeting). I hope the rest of the week holds more writing time for…
Big Dude is back in school, and it’s time to get back to serious work. This inevitably means I’ll put Little Man down for a nap, race around doing laundry, picking up and prepping dinner. Then, with great relief, settle in front of the computer to write. And stare at the screen. C’mon, words! Flow…
So! We’re into week two of winter break, and I’d love to check out to my office for a few hours to write. But there are little people in my house who demand things. Like food. And help building Legos. So writing will happen in the snippets of the day when Little Man naps and…
I would definitely ask Santa for some more hours in the day. Hours when my kids are sleeping or playing quietly. I love them dearly, but is winter break over yet? (She wonders on the very first morning.) Mama has editing to do! *** What’s happening in your writing life? Find a meme or make…
The editing of the book continues! Quick recap: It came back from the editor several weeks back, right before I pitched it to an agent at a writing conference. The agent asked for chapters, knowing I had gotten it back from an editor and had work to do on it before it was submission ready. Then…
Well, I don’t actually know my final word count, but I passed my goal (15k) last week on Monday. Yay! AND I did it without becoming a crazed, word-anti-smithing fool, hauled off by the NaNo Emergency Squad (or shipped off by hubby)! My bigger goal, establishing a daily habit of at least 500 words, is…
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