Congratulations! it’s a novel.
My novel-in-progress is over 40,000 words. Yay, it’s a novel! It’s not a complete novel, mind you. In fact, it’s a half-complete novel. But it’s 40,000 words, and a girl needs...I’ve been quiet…
I’ve been writing a lot. Well. Last weekend I was sick. Let us not speak of it. My action chapter is still kicking my butt, because, well, it’s action. It’ll be okay, and the next chapter should have fun stuff in it. Well, there was something fun...Sigh.
Action scenes are hard. Let’s do math instead!Uh oh…
I’m currently working on chapter seven. My writer’s group just critiqued chapters five and six. I think I need to write faster.Bad subconscious, no biscuit.
I’ve been procrastinating about writing. I thought it was because I was stressed about car repairs and the like, but no. I think I just didn’t want to write Chapter Four. Well, I went ahead and started it, and it wasn’t so bad while I was writing it,...I hate to jinx things, but…
Lizardfic is a lot easier to write the second time around. Okay, chapter one had its hard parts, but that was because it was chapter one, and because I need violence enablers. (I really, really need violence enablers.) Chapter two is my friend so far. Maybe it’s...Holy hand grenades, Batman!
I generally think of myself as bad at plot. Maybe I think this because I sometimes end up writing a first draft in which I follow a character around a setting and nothing happens to him or her. (This is generally what’s wrong with the hurricane story, by the...Lots of work for not a lot of prose, and nonfiction reading.
My outline for the novel codenamed Lizardfic is currently 5008 words. That’s longer than most of my short stories. This is more outlining than I’ve ever done for any project, ever. On the other hand, stalled novel, yo. Horrible feeling. Must unstall novel....Edit, edit, edit.
I’ve been collapsing characters in the hurricane story. It’s done some cool things to the minor characters that have been combined. I still haven’t tackled the plot stuff. I think I’m a little intimidated by it. I have a pretty good idea of how...Subscribe
