Writing
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Book 3 Rough Draft Complete!
Oh my goodness! The rough draft is DONE! So, you know, step one of 100 done. Just kidding. I need to put a bit of time between myself and book 3 before I begin the rewrite to pretty it up. I put at least two weeks between myself and the last two books, but I’m feeling pretty good, and I think I’ll be ready to dive back in on Monday. After the rewrite, I usually go through and look for more weak spots. I repeat this process until I don’t think I can read the book one more time, then I go through and fix anything grammatically wrong. After that,…
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Book Three and Other Updates!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything to the blog or social media, but that is a good thing as far as writing goes. I wanted to give a quick update on the state of book three/the series in general so far. Oh book three, book three….. It’s been giving me fits. An example: most books in my genre run 65k-95k words. So far in April, I have written 90k words on book three and 60k of those have been trashed. via GIPHY I wrote 30k towards book three and decided it was garbage and wasn’t telling the story I wanted to tell so I started over. I wrote…
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Release Day!
Birdsong and Bone is out! Oh my goodness! I can’t believe book 2 is out in the world today! It’s been a trying month this last month but it paid off in the end. My arm is on the mend, book 2 is out, and now I can focus on book 3 a little more. I’ll be candid right now – the rough draft for book 3 was supposed to be done by the end of this month. That’s not going to happen and I’m frankly having a horrible bit of anxiety over it. I can get about thirty minutes of typing in before my hand cramps horribly from my…
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Release!
Wow! I can’t believe it’s been nine days since the release of Bramble and Blood! The release went well considering the fact that I went about it all wrong. But book is slowly gaining an audience and that is an awesome feeling. I’ve been a bundle of nerves so far thinking no one would be reading the book at all and that it was a horrible mistake to release it out into the world. But I’m glad I did. The book has even gotten two 5-star ratings!!! That’s not too shabby! I’ve spent less time this past week working on the finishing steps of book two than I should have,…
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Camp Nano update and #Revpit
Holy watering, burning eyes Batman! Wouldn’t you know it? The first beautiful weekend and I’m afflicted with some sort of cold/allergy thing. At least I didn’t start feeling really sick until I was done scrambling to get ready for #Revpit and submitting to it. Which kind of leads me to Camp Nano and my abysmal performance for this camp so far. I first heard about #Revpit on Monday- I wasn’t planning on submitting; I was just going to stick to my plan of getting more beta readers for my Entangle manuscript and spending all of April and May finishing a new rough draft. After some hemming and hawing Tuesday and…
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April Camp Nano and Other Happenings
Oh geez. It’s been a while since I last posted. Between finishing up initial revisions to get my book ready for beta readers and everyday life, there hasn’t been much to report. But I suppose I should do a post just so it appears I’m not dead. Besides, I need to document that I’ve been busy these last couple of months. First up, revisions! I spent a good chunk of time going through and revising my book, Entangle. I wanted to get it polished up enough to have initial beta readers give it a go. I set a deadline for myself to have it out for betas on my birthday…
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Revision!
Oh revision! How you had me worried! Oh wait….. That’s a lot of red. Really the revisions aren’t all that bad. Most pages look like this: That’s a lot less red. I started working on revisions on Monday, even though it was a holiday and that meant the kids were home which also means a lot less time to work. Even with a shortened work week, I’ve managed to make it all the way through chapter 12 which is well over halfway through the book. Not too shabby. I was certain this revision would take weeks to get through. I guess it helps that I’m putting in 8 –…
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The Big Rewrite or My Self-Imposed Exile
It’s Friday! And it’s been a month since I’ve done a Friday post or any type of post at that. I began the big rewrite of my rough draft a month ago and it has completely taken over. The time I would devote to social media or writing a blog post, I’ve spent working on the rewrite instead. And I find that I’m okay with that. I enjoy the Twitter writing games but they aren’t as important as finishing the rewrite. I do miss the interaction with other people but there’s always time for that later. I’ve been withdrawing more and more in the afternoons and evenings to work…
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Rough Draft Complete!
The rough draft is done! After working all day and writing approximately 6000 words I finally finished my rough draft last night. Just in time too since I set a goal of beginning to edit my already finished rough draft for this month. But for a few hours, I think I can just sit back and relax knowing that I worked through enough plot problems to at least finish a rough draft.
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Spooky Friday Post!
It’s Friday the 13th! And that means…..a spooky accountability post? I guess? Here, this will make it spooky: Dear Lord that is a terrifying doll….On to word count accountability!