June Goals
June is here which means it must be time to revisit my goals. From May: Go live with the website. (This is the “make a list” item of this list.) Get the final t...
Category: Writing Life
Wednesday 5/30/2018
Writing accomplished: Finished the read-through + brief notes for ALL ROCS (C2). (And there was much rejoicing.) There are about fifty notes I need to address w...
Monday 5/28/2018
Writing accomplishments: Well… I didn’t quite get around to fixing chapter five of ALL ROCS (C2), but I did think about it and I decided I don’...
Sunday 5/27/2018
Went to a write-in at the cupcake shop in Davis which YWC combined with a critique get-together. Fun was had by all and I almost started crying because I was la...
Saturday 5/26/2018
Writing-related things: Re-read and critiqued the other submissions for the YWC meeting tomorrow. One is for a children’s picture book and I’m so fa...
Friday 5/25/2018
There’s a fine line between being proud of a book and being sick of said book because you’ve read it about twenty times while trying to edit it. A v...
Wednesday 5/23/2018
Writing accomplishments: I was not extraordinarily productive today, but I did get up early and smoothed over the chunk I wrote yesterday. I have come to the co...
Bring Out Your Endive!
Not having a language in common means that occasionally my characters go through bouts of playing charades, except with no “4 syllables” or “s...
Seeking Clarity
Sometimes it’s hard to focus because I’m just easily distracted, but sometimes there are other reasons. Writing accomplishments: Fixed one argument,...
Just Keep Crawling
One of the problems with editing is that it’s harder to quantify progress. I can, however, quantify the number of chocolate croissants (2) I had this even...