writing process Archive
Today’s writing progress was decent. I finished a short interlude scene in the castle kitchen then moved on into the next, important one that introduces more of my hero’s family history as well as covering her looks by way of …
I haven’t mentioned it much on here, but I’ve recently been caught up in the game Pokemon GO – way too caught up. I’ve been opening it whenever I have a free moment, and often when I don’t, both at …
Yesterday, I was listening to the Six Figure Authors podcast and they were doing an episode on mistakes beginner authors make. The first mistake that Lindsay Buroker covered was “listening to advice that was too advanced.” I only heard the …
In my first attempt at this book, I had the entire thing written from a single POV, because I thought that might make it an easier project to complete. But when I think about it, almost all of the books …
OK, so last time, I said I was going to blow up my WiP and try to rewrite it from the beginning, being more free and less prescriptive in what I wanted my scenes to accomplish. I want to see …
I finished reading through all of the chapters I had written so far and started trying to write new words this morning, but I’m suffering from self-doubt. I was excited to get back into the fiction, but now that I’m …
Today, I finished the Pro-Writing Aid review of my final chapter and end matter. Even after addressing all of the issues that the software raised, some of my scores were low because of rules the software had wrong, which was …
This morning, I woke up feeling a little slow. The late night of G&Ts and talking to my wife about my day job-stress probably contributed to that a little bit. But once I forced myself to get out of bed …
Today, I started applying the handwritten edits into Scrivener and got through the first 20 pages, about 1/8 of the book. I have finished the front matter and started in on Chapter 1. This process is anything but exciting, but …
At the end of my last writing session, I left my hero almost at the end of the scene following the Inciting Incident. She was about to discover the extent of the destruction to everything she has known in her …