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NaNo Update: Week One

Ok so I realize this is far from being a daily update, like I wanted to do, but I’m thinking this is more realistic for me. Weekly updates it is. So, the big questions: What’s my word count? 7006. Where … Continue reading

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And They’re Off!

WORD COUNT TO DATE: 1768. (I will try to update my word count daily throughout NaNo.) I got a solid start to NaNo. I had all my words for today before 9:00 this morning. This year, unlike all the others … Continue reading

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Oops…

So apparently my summer sketchiness turned into a complete accidental hiatus… Although I should have blogged more (I guess I should say that I should have blogged, period…) I had a good and relatively productive summer. I didn’t write an … Continue reading

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The New Project

As I mentioned briefly in my goals post from last week, I have started a new project based on a writing prompt we had at the Underground Writers’ meeting last Thursday. After some pretty intense brainstorming and research, I’ve got … Continue reading

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Goals Update and What I’m Reading

As I said last week, Fridays will be my check-in days. Here’s what I’ve been up to in the last week. Reading: Books I finished this past week: – Terry Pratchett’s The Color of Magic – Marie Bilodeau’s Princess of … Continue reading

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Setting the Mood

I’ve been wanting to blog about this since Ad Astra, and I forgot until now… One of the panelists said something that really made sense for me, and I’ve been experimenting with it ever since. He said that when he … Continue reading

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New Goals, Outdoor Writing, and What I’ve Been Reading…

I’ve decided that Fridays will be my “check-in” posts. There was an Underground Writers’ meeting last night, so we discussed how we did on our goals from last week, and what our new goals were. Goals from last week: blog … Continue reading

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Update

This is just a quick post to update you guys on where I am with my writing goals so far for the week. I have just finished edits and rewrites on Guilty Conscience, and have sent that out to the … Continue reading

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Writing Goals for this Week

The following are my writing goals for this week (before Thursday, actually – for the Underground Writers’ meeting). – edit Hide and Seek, which is the short story I submitted for critique last week – finish and send out Guilty … Continue reading

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New Posting Schedule

First of all, I’ve obviously been slacking in the posting department, but that’s mostly because posting every single day was getting to be a little too much. In order to fix these issues, I’ve decided to change my blog posting … Continue reading

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Long Overdue Post About Ad Astra – Part One

As this post’s title suggests, it is late. I’m talking a month late. Anyways, here’s what I have to say about my Ad Astra experience the weekend of April 8th, 9th, and 10th. For those of you who aren’t aware, … Continue reading

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Writing Goals for the Next Week

With the Underground Writers, we set weekly writing goals, and I’ve realized that this would be a good place to post them, seeing as this blog is all about my writing habits. So here they are: – continue outlining Darkness … Continue reading

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The Joys of Outlining

I have been spending the majority of my “writing time” outlining my current novel. It’s fun because these surprising things keep happening. A new character that I thought would be insignificant will have a severe impact on my main character, … Continue reading

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Plotting… and Scripting?

So I’m still deciding whether or not I want to participate in Script Frenzy (and by that I mean if I’ll be writing an actual script). I’m thinking of writing a script for the novel I worked on for NaNoWriMo, … Continue reading

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Work-in-Progress

So the work-in-progress, previously known as Mist, then Ayana’s Gift for lack of a better title, now has a “real” title!!! Darkness Awakens is my NaNoWriMo novel from last November, which I am still working on. I’ve gotten further into … Continue reading

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