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A symbolic milestone for me this week: passing 70,000 words in my draft. I’ve been writing more in the last two months because I have given myself permission to write for longer than an hour each day (which […]
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Writing workshops inspire me and fill me with new ways of thinking. They also leave me with a lot of critique comments to wrestle with. For the novel WIP, I often put comments in a file for later, […]
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This week I wrote almost 1000 words on the novel draft! I’m expanding a scene that I had only included as a one-paragraph flashback. I received feedback from a couple of people that this could be its own […]
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My writing this week consisted mostly of negative writing in the sense that I took words out of the WIP. That seems to be how it goes. Why? Sometimes I tell the reader too much about characters’ thoughts […]
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I pushed myself this week to finish a scene so that a chapter would be more or less complete (first draft, that is). Even though I was busy with unpacking and starting a new writing class (Advanced Speculative […]
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Amid moving madness, I stuck to my writing practice. This week six and a half hours were spent on writing with additional time spent researching and reviewing a couple of short stories for other people. A lot of […]
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Comments land like a stone in a pond: they ripple through the work. Last weekend I had critique sessions with writing buddies. This week I followed those ripples and made minor changes in a couple of chapters. I […]
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Writing and reviewing happened this week. I had three pieces to review for writing groups that meet this weekend. I enjoy providing feedback on others’ work. It’s like a puzzle to solve, trying to figure out what the […]
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After last week’s focus on research—timetables, maps, photographs—I was ready to write this week. Notes on the next scene in the WIP had been drafted months ago. This week I worked on finishing this scene, which opens the […]
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Much of this week’s writing time was consumed with research. For the current WIP novel, I needed certain physical locations for key parts of the action. For example: a summer house on a lake in northern New England […]
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