I broke my blog streak and this sent me into a spiral of sadness before my writing friends pulled me out of it. What I needed to do, they said, is start a new challenge, but make it weekly rather than daily. That sounds good to me, so this is my new challenge. Every Friday…
Month: October 2018
Written Confessions Day 25
Today went well. I have three chapters ready for Steve’s perusal. I added almost 700 words to the main novel. I wrote the piece for the Memphis Writers group and reviewed another member’s three chapters for our workshop review. Tomorrow morning I’ll work on the first lesson in David Farland’s course and post it for…
Written Confessions Day 24
Tomorrow is the Thursday night meeting of the Memphis Writers and I worked on the homework for the meeting and for Saturday’s meeting and I reviewed the chapters we are workshopping. I also worked on my novel. I’m stuck at the end of chapter three for a cool naval maneuver, so Steve will read through…
Written Confessions Day 23
I worked on my primary novel today, continuing to work on issues in the first five chapters. This is not the ideal way to work. In a good world I would be adding new scenes and new words, but we are still sick and this is what I can do. Tomorrow I hope to get…
Written Confessions Day 22 – Still Sick
Apparently Dean Wesley Smith’s blog is actually called Writing In Public rather than that being the name of the challenge he was doing. I am embarrassed. I didn’t mean to copy his name, just his challenge of being open about what is going on with my writing in public on a daily blog. So I…
Writing in Public Day 21
Steve and I are both under the weather and have a bad case of the blah’s. I’ve tried to write a bit on the novel but it’s pretty pathetic. Steve has a fever so perhaps we are sick. ♥♥♥ Writing in Public blog streak… Day 21 — Short Fiction: 00 new words. — Novel-Length fiction:…
Writing in Public Day 20 Embodied Narratives
I attended a workshop today called The Embodied Narrative, which focused on embracing the non-verbal qualities of the experience of being a body and transforming those into words. I’m very pleased with the workshop. We entered through an art gallery into a small section that had been transformed in to an inviting nest with a…
Writing in Public – Day 19
Today I worked on chapter 3 of the primary novel, but I didn’t end up with much at all. I have come up to the conflict with the pirates and I don’t know how they get to the end of it. (Though I do know the end.) Chapters Four and Five are both written but…
Writing in Public – Day 18
I finished chapter 2 of my primary novel and I’m pretty pleased with it. This chapter was previously written from the viewpoint of Rueben’s wife, who I later decided wouldn’t be a viewpoint character. Then it was written from Rueben’s perspective. That still didn’t work because the person who had the most to gain or…
Writing in Public – Day 17 Doubts and Determination
I saw an old friend and co-worker at Bill’s novel writing class last night. She looked fantastic! When I left the company, she looked exhausted and crumpled into herself. I worried about her and about all of the people I was leaving because the work environment was so hard and did so much damage to…