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It’s only half past the point of no return

Well, it’s been a pretty productive four day weekend here at Casa Mel (with interlude at Casa Mel’s folks). Writing has happened. Visiting folks has happened. Doing errands has happened. Quasi organisation for the coming work week has happened. The book...

Happiness is a good writing day

This morning I woke up thinking “you know, if I could do 14 pages today, then I’d hit 200”. Tomorrow and Sunday are going to be busy so I also knew that it’s doubtful I’ll get much writing done either day. As an added bonus, as I was...

Where’s my trash can?

My neck hurts, my shoulder hurts (and how the heck do you hurt your left shoulder as a righty anyway), it’s cold. Whine whine whine. Call me Oscar. But at least pages have been achieved. Progress – Lily New pages – Five Intriguing things – Mean...

The top of the hill

Ta-da I have reached the half-way point (well, figured as halfway in my average first draft page count)! Hopefully it’s all downhill and picking up speed from here to the end. Progress – Lily New pages – Seven Intriguing things – More magic...

Every little bit helps

Despite tired brain and slight headache from new glasses, did a bit of a word sprint after dinner and came up with some pages. Progress – Lily New pages – Four Intriguing things – Worldbuilding Annoyances – Too tired to write more...

The sound and the process

Heidi is doing a series of posts on preparing for Nanowrimo and has just done an interesting one on making the soundtrack for your book. I too am a soundtracker, which I’ve talked a bit about previously here. When Heidi said her soundtracks are around 100 songs,...

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