Full Steam Ahead

I am editing like all get out. I totally rewrote chapter 32 today. I added in an unexpected graveyard scene; I’ll have to read it in a bit and see how I feel about it. I’m now up to chapter 34 for edits. Seven chapters left in my major edit, and I’m feeling really good [...]

Um… I Just Wrote a Book!

Last night, I actually finished the final chapter of my first novel. What a wild, crazy ride that was! Of course, there will still be lots of work left to do before it is finished enough to do anything with it, but wow! I can’t believe I finished it! 7 weeks exactly from the day [...]

And then the climax!

I finished the climax scene of my novel last night. I am officially wrapping things up now. 2 or 3 chapters left at the most. But there will be no writing today, because it is my second anniversary, and I will be hanging out with my husband today. Stats as of late last night: 37 [...]

That’s It, It’s All Over!

The NaNoWriMo Contest is all over. The fifth and final Golden Ticket has been found. The website I joined for aspiring novelists ended its wordcount contest late last night. I finished with 66,460 words for the month of November– a nice bit over the required 50K. I finished chapters 31 to 33 yesterday, so my [...]

That’s Why…

Many years ago… long before I met my husband, I had an odd conversation with my boyfriend at the time. We were walking down the streets of Ann Arbor early on a Sunday morning. The university was on break, so the streets were unusually deserted. There was only one other person in sight. She was [...]

Today I am worried…

I don’t know what it is exactly, but I am worried that my book is too darned dark. I haven’t even revealed the worst secrets to my main character yet, and it’s already pretty awful. How dark is too dark? When does a novel stop being entertaining and start being draining? I hit poor Beatrice [...]

NaNoWriMo Winner!

Well, last night just after midnight, I wrote my 50,000th words since November 1st. Total word count for my story is over 60,000 words. Yikes! I’m also excited because I’ve worked out my last major plot problem (I think). I’m in the middle of Chapter 26 now and would love to crank through 27 tonight, [...]

Struggling to Stay Awake

“The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.”– Mary Heaton Vorse I R Tired. The last couple of weeks, it seems I do most of my writing between 10 pm and 3 am. This is partly because I’m alone and the house is [...]

Woo-frickin’-hoo!

So, the goal of the NaNoWriMo site is to write 50,000 words of your novel in 30 days. NaNoWriMo starts on November 1 and goes to the 30th. It is the words I have written since NaNo started that you see in my word count. I do not count the few chapters amounting to ~10,000 [...]