I got a little writing done today … very little. I’d say I wrote about a page — a far cry from the heady days of November when I was writing 2,000 words a day. Guess I’ll look at the positive: It’s a page more than I wrote yesterday. I’ve Read more…
… Literally. I was unable to talk above a whisper yesterday. Even now, my voice is all scratchy and it hurts to talk. Being without a voice gave me pause and made me think about what it would be like to lose my writing voice: Not much fun. Some writers Read more…
With the holidays looming, I took a brief hiatus from the blog. Even though I didn’t blog about a darn thing, I continued writing — or at least thinking about writing. That’s half the battle, isn’t it? By thinking about that darn query letter, I’m getting that much closer to Read more…
I’ve set “Blind Date Bride” aside for a couple of weeks, letting it rest before I start editing. But now I’m at a bit of a loss. What next? I have other manuscripts I could be editing/rewriting/expanding, including the two that follow my GH entry. (It’s part of a three-book Read more…
I only went to bed three hours ago, but when the Boyfriend called this morning on his way to work, I was too excited to go back to sleep. Why? I finished “Blind Date Bride” early this morning. It was about 5 a.m. After an early night at work (due Read more…
I’m up to the part of the book I hate — the dreaded “black moment” where I have to break my characters up just so they can get to their Happily Ever After. I have two problems with this: I like my characters. I love that they’re together and happy. Read more…
With just a little more than 8,000 words to write to hit the 90K mark needed for a single-title contemporary, I’m finding words are just pouring out of my head an onto the page. Where was all this enthusiasm last week, when I needed it to end the NaNo with Read more…
At the beginning of November, I set a personal NaNoWriMo goal of writing the 40,000 words that it would take to finish “Blind Date Bride.” Well, it’s now the end of the month, and I haven’t written 40K words. I haven’t even written 30K. However, I’m still considering it a Read more…
I just checked my delivery confirmation via the U.S. Postal Service and nearly had a heart attack: No record of that number on file. It turned out, I incorrectly entered the tracking number from my receipt. When I typed in the correct number, the computer told me my GH entry Read more…
This time, I mean my Golden Heart entry — all 246 pages of it, plus the disk with my full MS on it. I dropped it off at the post office sometime between 11 a.m. and noon. It felt like such a momentous occasion. I was so darn proud of Read more…