Puzzling
Yesterday was mostly a sitting and thinking about the book day. Which is a necessary part of the process. I think I managed a whole one new page which isn't really worthy of progress update. The result of my sitting and thinking, including trying to interview my hero...
Every little bit…
My brain is officially calling it a day. Or night. More in the morning but at least there has been some pages added to the tally and some brainstorming with the VT. More of that in the morning too. Progress - Witch 1 New pages - Four Intriguing things - Connections...
The fog thickens
It's gone straight from summer to winter here. The heater is on, the rain is falling and the girls apparently are suffering from a combination of a bad night's sleep (due to the brain going 'what is that weird noise' every time the downpour got heaver and me thinking...
Clever friends
A big woooooohooooooooooooooooooooo!!! to my extra clever friends. Kelly Hunter with a RITA final in short contemporary (or whatever they're calling that now) for Sleeping Partner (a fabulous book). Anna Campbell with a DOUBLE RITA final for Untouched and Claiming the...
Reporting in
Well, yay. I actually did write forty pages over Easter. Amazing what a couple of work free days can do. And somewhere back there I apparently passed 300 posts on this blog. Which means I've been chatty lately because I only hit 200 sometime later last year from...
A stitch in time
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 little, give the girls...
Fifty thousand
Yay! 200 pages. Hopefully that means a downhill slide to the end. And then a honking big revision. I keep getting glimpses of what I want the book to be like. Odd times when I feel the weight of it or can almost smell it - like walking into the room a few hours after...
Nice
Melbourne has turned on a lovely warm Easter Sunday (after three chilly days) and I have walked, napped, relaxed and just had a lovely 12 page scene fall out of my head onto the page. Which puts me offically over half way if this draft turns out to be my usual short...
Ever forward
Some progress. Still pondering the ultimate solution but writing in between stuff while that happens. So: Progress - Witch 1 New pages - Five Intriguing things - Chinks in denial Annoyances - Really sure what I thought happened next isn't quite right and not really...
Pondering
It's official. The girls are saying nuh-uh to what I thought happened next. of course, they are not doing anything useful like saying "here. try this instead". Therefore I declared today and yesterday official days of pondering (aka trying to figure out what the heck...
