A DREAM – A STORY – A JOURNEY
As I was revising MS:T this week, I was confronted with a weakness in my process that I really want to work on this year. It's a problem that I think stems from either a lack of defined 'this is what I plan digitally vs. paper', or 'this is the plan I follow step by... Continue Reading →
This week I struggled with my manuscript in weaving the new edits necessary to take this story to the next level with the writing that's already been done. Also, deadlines. 🙂 As I was working on MS:T last week, I was struggling with a piece of the story I wanted to introduce in chapter eight.... Continue Reading →
It is a very interesting experience to revisit a past writing project. As I began work on MS:T this week, I was confronted with how much life experience had changed me from who I was when I began the manuscript to who I am now. This isn’t a bad thing, though it might sound that... Continue Reading →
A few years ago I heard about this idea of picking a word for the year to lean into and explore. I’ve picked a word the last several years and I’ve loved what each one has taught me. This year, I’m really excited to do the same and I love the word I’ve chosen. Now,... Continue Reading →
Oh my dear readers. We are getting ready to say goodbye to the year and what a year it is has been. I spent this past week setting up my plot board and dry erase boards for the new year. My plot board is full of index cards, one for each chapter of MS:T, with... Continue Reading →
I finished the complete revision of MS:SB and it felt so good to complete the goal before 2020 ended. This was a project I started way back in the beginning of the year and I almost let it go. I knew if I did, I would only be slowing down the work I want to... Continue Reading →
All I wanted to do December 1st was walk away from my writing projects and binge Dawson’s Creek on the nights I would have been chasing my word count. Did I do that? No. Because there was a goal I had set myself way back in January that I wasn’t going to let the general... Continue Reading →
As expected, this year’s challenge was more difficult than years past, but the words have been written and with them the first draft of this story has been set on the page. Finishing a story, proving to oneself that they can complete a story start to finish and show up each and every day for... Continue Reading →
Day 23: 4,644 words. This might have been the single most amount of words I've written in a day for NaNoWriMo ever. I just couldn't stop after I wrote the chapter I needed to write today. I couldn't leave my characters beaten down and at their lowest point without traveling that darkness with them. I... Continue Reading →
Day 16: 1,669 words. Ended on another awesome cliffhanger. I like that. Day 17: 1,751 words. I wrote something in this chapter today that, before I wrote it, I had to turn to my husband and say, “this is going to be horrible.” It’s something I didn’t know was going to happen and it is... Continue Reading →
