A DREAM – A STORY – A JOURNEY
That phrase falls from the fingers and lands on the heart in several ways. It feels weighty and full of responsibilities. It also feels light and full of possibilities. It's both OK and important to acknowledge both sides of that reality and allow oneself to contemplate both. This week I did a few things to... Continue Reading →
I've been fortunate these past few weeks to find myself in several bookstores. When I was a kid, my favorite birthdays were the ones where I received several gift cards to bookstores. My dad would take me and while he was lost in the fantasy section on his own adventuring for paperbacks and hardcovers to... Continue Reading →
It's such a funny thing, to know something and then for it to happen when you're not thinking of it. I'm re-reading SB for the revisions it needs, and as I was reading a paragraph, I was struck by how much I wasn't seeing or hearing or smelling in this particular scene. I was describing... Continue Reading →
NaNoWriMo 2019 is done. It was a rough month, but I finished with a complete first draft of a novel that I am very excited to go back and revise. The sisters in this novel, the complex relationship that they have, and the individual journeys that they go on were quite a thing to render... Continue Reading →
Day 25- 2,405- made up for lost steam yesterday and finished the climax. Hooray! Day 26- 3,875- Holy. Stars. That was a marathon! I'm trying to finish this story by tomorrow if at all possible. I want to have it free of me before I go into Thanksgiving and everything that will follow after. Something... Continue Reading →
Day 18- 1,771 Day 19- 1,716 Day 20- 1,792- I don't remember feeling like I was writing so many 'placeholder' days before. Where I knew exactly what I wanted to write, knew what the scene was supposed to be, but then when I started to write, it all came out wrong. I'm writing it and... Continue Reading →
Day 11- 1,832- the mystery character is on the scene and his name is exactly what it should be. Day 12- 1,863- I broke 20,000 words- hooray! The momentum of this story is really threatening to overtake me. I really thought I had a handle on where it was going and how I was getting... Continue Reading →
First, thank you so much for all of your words of love, encouragement, and support. It all has helped to bring light to my heart in the sad moments and on the hard days. Day 1- Recovery day from the trip to Daytona and spending the day with my family and remembering my Papa. Day... Continue Reading →
We got the call from one of my uncle's last Sunday that my Papa, my Dad's father, was not doing well. I flew out of Boston that night to get down to Daytona after one o'clock Monday morning. I was able to spend time with my Dad and family and my Nana and be there... Continue Reading →
A last week of NaNoWriMo prep, presented in three parts. First, the struggles of the week. I have never had a character's name be so energetically elusive for such a long period of time. I tried looking up names that were related to the themes in the novel to spark something. Nothing. I tried creating... Continue Reading →
Nikole Breault 