And it’s about time because I didn’t get a whole lot of planning done this past week! In fact, I worked on Anderson Baxter only two days during the past week and both days were comprised of journal entries and nothing more. What planning I did was mostly mental and/or …
This week was a mixed bag for writing. A good week for the most part, but with enough other stuff thrown in to keep it from being one of those absolutely excellent weeks. Dealing with the previous week’s dish washing injury was the primary damper. Finding new ways to do …
This past week has been an excellent week for writing, with several days well over the daily writing goal and one day in which I wrote over ten thousand words in a single day. The only way it could have been better would have been to have all of those …
Writing can be very frustrating work (and, yes, I did chose the word “work” deliberately!). Last week’s weekly update post was all about finding the right story. You’ll recall I had several potential plots vying for my attention. All of them wanted to participate in Saving Grace. Most of them …
My current story went through quite a few contortions this week. Come to think of it, I did, too. I continued to combine work on the story with coursework and reading through Plot & Structure (James Scott Bell), but it didn’t take long to realize the reading was getting way …
Last week, I began the serious business of plotting a course for the second draft of my 2009 National Novel Writing Month manuscript. After sitting idle since sometime this spring, it’s time to put the manuscript to work again. I’m coupling story work with a second reading of James Scott …