by Mel | Oct 9, 2010 | Writing
It’s a book, it’s a book! All 100,000 odd words of it. Sure, I need to do a final polishing pass, and god knows how coherent the forty odd pages I wrote today are, but the hard bit is done for now. I have written my first book under contract and (touch...
by Mel | Apr 6, 2008 | Writing
Darn. I didn’t get the 12 pages I was hoping for. Only eight. Mostly due to the fact that the stonking great ‘I’m on detox type diet’ headache that I was hoping I’d missed out on after it didn’t arrive yesterday, arrived today....
by Mel | Mar 30, 2008 | Random thoughts
You know, there’s something about hitting the last third of a book, even a very first drafty draft of a book like this one, that makes my brain go a little crazy. Normal people do not wander around the supermarket doing page count calculations in their heads...
by Mel | Mar 30, 2008 | Writing
I woke up with the slightly nutty idea that if I write 18 pages today I’ll be at 60k. I don’t know why, maybe it’s because that’s the length my short contemps are, but 60k feels much closer to done than being in the fifties. I’m going to...
by Mel | Mar 25, 2008 | Random thoughts, Writing
After a couple of big page days, I think today will be a ‘go back and stitch things together’ day. I’m not pushing the pages, I need to do some reading for crits as well but I do want to put in the bits I skipped, smooth out the raggedy edges a...