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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Breakthrough! (I’m at 58,536 words so no, the breakthrough isn’t in my word count. But you build a novel one word at a time, no matter how painful and slow the words are.) I’m at the point in my WIP where I learned something new about my main character. This is what I love about [...] I did write today. But the word count was so pitiful I couldn’t share it. Just trust me, it was bad. Bribe: anything given or promised to induce a person to do something against his or her wishes. I bet if I my desk was made of Butterfinger’s, I would be sitting there all [...] I have written 41,221 words on my latest work-in-progress. I’m happy that I have so many words down on paper, but it’s not time for cheering yet. Technically, I’m only half-way there. (I like my novels to be about 85,000 words before I begin revisions.) Half-way is the scary part of your novel where you’re [...] My husband installed a newer version of Microsoft Word and the word count feature is driving me crazy! [...] Having the spirit of NaNoWriMo. [...] Checking my word count on my new novel. [...] Comparing an episode of Seinfeld to writing my book. [...] |
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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