Posts under ‘Writing’

The morning has a ethereal quality to it, as I’m still carrying the feelings from my emotionally-charged dream. So often my moods are shaped by what I was dreaming when I woke up that morning, and while the images sometimes don’t make enough sense to hold on to upon waking, the emotion always does. I’ve [...]

Don’t you hate it when you have an epiphany and then the next day you can’t remember what it was? I know I made some important neural pathways yesterday, but all I can do is trust they’ll kick in when I need them.
Despite my grogginess yesterday, I did have a pretty good writing day. I’m [...]

Today is my husband’s birthday, the big Four-One. I’ll have the kids make him some pictures before he gets home from work, but otherwise we won’t do anything, which is the way he likes it. I’ll let him choose a football card on eBay for his present. He’d rather pick it himself, anyway. Hm, maybe [...]

Yesterday I went through the printed scenes of my WIP, assessed each one’s viability, and inserted placeholder pages for scenes which were missing. I got about halfway through. By the time I’m finished I hope to have every major plot point mapped in, with plenty of room for fun extras like backstory and worldbuilding. The [...]

If I miss the morning blogging window, I never think of blogging in the afternoon. Duh. If I have something to say, but either I already posted or I didn’t post that morning, do I jump on and make a new post? No. Because I put myself in boxes, and that is one of them: [...]

So I printed out my whole novel yesterday. Ever since Maggie stuck some toys down in the printer several years ago, it hasn’t wanted to feed the paper. The last time I printed a novel I had to feed each page by hand, and oh em gee, was that an exercise in tedium. So this [...]

I’ve been feeling pretty crappy the past few days, and apprently it’s that time of year, because my bud Fal has felt the same way, and she’s way up there in Illinois. I’m on the upswing, though, and I hope she is, too.
I love September. The word is nice, the birthstone is sapphire, the weather [...]