Still at it

I'm nearing the end of Jasmine, and it hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. I have had to delete a whole chapter, and a few scenes were eliminated or rewritten entirely, but on the whole, it's been a fairly quick rewrite. I have asked a friend of mine to read it …

Dusting off the pages

I pulled out my 2012 NaNoWriMo novel this evening and began to work on it. It's one of the novels that I'm most passionate about because I think there's something there, a story I want to tell. It's probably also one of the most personal for me because it deals with a hard break up …

Another plan bites the dust

I had it all planned out. Today was my day off, and I was going to sit and write. I'm almost at the end of my book, and I had hoped to be done today, or at least almost done. Instead I washed dishes and started to deep clean the kitchen. It's amazing how dirty …

Today's update

I just finished rewriting the first scene of the second chapter, where my main character run into who will fast become her love interest. Doing so, I hope, will jump-start the action, like I stated on my previous post, but also resolve a persistent question that has been bothering me. Can two people fall so …

The Fix – The beginning

One of the complaints I heard from my beta-readers was that the story took too long to begin. Specifically, the actual hook didn't come until the sixth chapter. I had to ruminate on this for a long time. I couldn't figure out how I was supposed to start the story without destroying the integrity of …

The fix

I've been thinking about the problem that has had my stymied for the past several weeks. I just couldn't find a way around this little stumbling block and I was at a stand-still. I'll admit that even though my goal is to publish this year, I wanted to give up and move on to another …

Out of story, well sort of

I ran out of story to edit! Okay, that's not entirely true. I still have half the book to do, but I hadn't gotten around to printing it yet. In the mean time, I'll enter what I do have onto my computer and save it. Once I'm done, I'll print off the other half and …

Tangled mess

As I try to rewrite this tangled mess that I laughably call a book, I've come to realize that writers are a masochistic bunch. Luckily I am indeed a masochist, or at least that's what I took away from the tangled mess of what once was my love life.

Making the cut

I'm going through my book, again, and mercilessly slashing it to bits. I have a bad habit of keeping things in solely because I wrote it. I'm a genius, after all. Only I'm not. I can't even fool myself into thinking that. I don't know how many times I've read and reread each single line. …

The joys of outlining

That has to be one of my most sarcastic titles I've ever written. The joys of outlining...excuse me while I weep silently into my pillow. *Muzak version of Pharrell Williams Happy plays in the background while writer wails miserably into a pillow* Sorry. I don't know what came over me. I'm a little tired right now. Maybe I'm …