Posted in novel, tagged covers, editing, procrastinating, titles on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After an inordinate amount of stalling, I have finally made the changes to Chapter 19.
That was the editing I was dreading the most.
Hopefully, the rest will go quickly now!
In other news, another new edition of toying with titles:
Posted in novel, tagged covers, editing, procrastinating, titles on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m so stalling. It’s not even funny.
I’ve had all day where I could have edited Chapters 18 and 19 (apart from a brief skirmish with work), but instead I’ve touched up other chapters, done global word searches, researched agents– done everything BUT edit the next two chapters.
Chapter 19 will be the biggest edit [...]
Posted in novel, tagged covers, procrastinating on November 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Nobody seems to have an opinion about the covers. So, I brainstormed a bit and came up with this: I used the photo from Cover Option 3 and faded and sepia-toned it for the back cover. I think I like it.
(Back) [...]
Posted in novel, tagged family, nano, procrastinating, words, writing on November 16, 2007 | No Comments »
I am learning lots of things as I continue in this quest to finish a novel.
For one thing, I have learned what a “word war” is. Essentially, it is a contest for a group of people like myself who are writing novels to compete on who can write the most words for their story [...]
Posted in novel, tagged music, novel, procrastinating, soundtrack, writing on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Today, I couldn’t write. So, instead I compiled an imaginary soundtrack.
You know, for the imaginary movie based on my still-at-least-half-imaginary novel.
It would have:
Half Acre (Hem)
This is the Day (The The)
Omaha (Counting Crows)
Elsewhere (Sarah Maclachlan)
Daughters (John Mayer)
Dream a Little Dream of Me (Nat King Cole)
Trouble Sleeping (Corinne Bailey Rae)
Where or When (Rod Stewart)
Blackbird [...]
