I am in the middle of a poignant, emotional turning point in my work in progress and am currently motivated and inspired to keep writing–which is the point of the whole journey, right? 🙂 But I did want to leave you with some motivation of your own. Every month I open a new word document […]
Flexibility. Sometimes I embody the word. Sometimes I fight it tooth and nail. I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find I’m leaning more towards the first when it comes to my current Work In Progress, and am so grateful. See, I am working from a 58 page outline. Some scenes are sketched out in very specific detail, […]
Confession: I love to read, but when I come across huge paragraphs that are nothing but setting description, I tend to scan over them. Occasionally, I’ll go back and reread it because I feel guilty–the author took time in describing all those details for a reason and I feel bad for skimming over them–but they tend […]
Goals are great things, right? The best part? They’re self-imposed and can change 🙂 Instead of moving ahead with my manuscript and working on those 3 scenes like I wanted, I’ve been preparing my first 7000 words for the Emily contest (deadline is next week). I got my CP’s comments back and eagerly began incorporating […]
I should explain about my goal for last week. I said I wanted to write 4 chapters. My mom quickly emailed and said I was definitely aiming high. That did seem like a lot. However, the way my story is set up, a chapter is a day, and a day could have anywhere from one […]
Last week, I shared my goals of getting through revisions and writing two more chapters. Well I did complete revisions on the first 1/3 of my contemporary YA romance, and did a lot of work with my outline. I thought that is all I would have to say but I just finished writing another chapter!! […]
My current WIP (work in progress) is a contemporary YA romance set in Texas. I started working on the outline and characters in July and began active writing in the beginning of August. Current Word Count: ahh, the beauty of editing and revising! This time last week it was 20,000. As of this moment, it […]
