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It’s pretty hard to not have a year pass and wonder what you learned, how you improved, and what you could do better. For me, 2011 I learned a lot about myself. I won’t discuss it all here, but I will share the one piece of advice that I’ve heard for years, but finally listened [...] First off, the lovely Amy Hatvany will be stopping by the blog tomorrow! I loved Amy’s book, Best Kept Secret, and was thrilled that she is going to stop by to discuss her new book, Outside the Lines. We’ll dish about Amy’s writing style and of course we’ll find out what hair nightmare Amy won’t [...] It can be hard to focus on your own work at times. On Facebook and Twitter I read all the time about how well other authors are doing with their writing.
“Hoping to get 2,000+ written today!” “Just met my November deadline! Book is off to editor!” "Wrote 10+ pages this morning. And doing [...] Word Count: 56,429 I’m loving where I am in my book right now. The writing is going well, but I feel like I’m lacking in some of my sub-plots. So that makes me have to keep reading what I’ve just written, to make sure the book is going wearing I want it to. I’m upping [...] Okay, so that’s not what really happened. But I do have an excuse on why I won’t make my stupid lofty word-count goal. This has been a very busy month. Between getting my daughter ready for school and other obligations I haven’t been hitting the book as hard as I planned. As of today, my [...] To get this book finished on time requires a lot of sacrifice. Right now on my television I have about seven TV shows that are sitting in my DVR unwatched. And these are some of my favorite shows. But if I want to finish this book—and I better considering how I announced to the world [...] I am now an outliner. I will preach to the mountaintops how much having an outline has helped me with my book, it’s made everything clearer. For me, pantsing had me in a fog, and I couldn’t see ahead and figure out how to get my characters through a certain situation. But now, since I [...] So on this post I mentioned that my word count was zero. Nada. Zilch. And now my friends my word count is…drumroll please…20,292 words! I am stocked, excited, downright giddy at the progress I’ve made in a month’s time. Actually, less than a month’s time, because I’ve been sick for two weeks, and didn’t get [...] I think every writer goes through a period where they just aren’t happy writing. When writing down the words can be likened to a Korean torture chamber. I’ve been having those days more often than I would like and I have to ask myself why? Why isn’t writing as fun as it used to be? [...] Okay, so as far as my revisions they are going quite well. I’m really happy with them. As you guys know, my first two books were published at a smaller publishing house. The book I’m working on now is the book that I hope gets attention from a bigger publisher. But last night I started [...] |
I’m a Women’s Fiction writer with two novels under my belt, Six O’clock and Unbeweaveable. Curl Up and Write is where I fuse my two loves: hair and writing. You’d be surprised at the similarities! When I’m not writing, I’m watching How’s It Made with my Hubby (and pretending I’m not interested in learning how a tennis racket is built), or I’m reading to my daughter. I also dabble in gardening, love to cook, and watch way too much HGTV.  |
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