Shannon

I think this about says it all:

Rushing out to a Zombies meeting, but I need to report a few things before I go: -I made a Full Lake today on OLOTI (that’s 2,500 words). Woo hoo! No WIP; I’ll get to that, no time to search for something fun now. -Jay arrives in town tomorrow for (among other things) two readings

No writing. No WRPA. Nice dinner with The Ogre. Work stuff–you don’t want to hear about that. Suffice it to say that, as opposed to a good deal of last week, the things that I accomplished are probably not all for naught. Started a good book last night–I think it’s a great book, but we

1,000 words on OLOTI tonight, for a total of 1,500. TRIPLING yesterday’s total. 🙂 1,500 out of 120,000. Hey, it’s progress. It is ALWAYS progress. This is how it works. This week’s goal is to get ten pages to read at the Zombies on Thursday. Given that I’ve just crossed over onto the top of

Started the new Seekrit Project tonight. 500 words in… it has a title, which has to be an acronym at this point: OLOTI. Soon all will be told, but for now: 500 words! Okay, bedtime.

With minor adjustments (i.e., staying in and being cooked for last night rather than going out and being cooked for), the weekend went as described. So, apparently I am a reasonably reliable narrator. There was one bump in the road, insofar as the whole “being done with a novel” thing goes. As in, faithful longtime

Here’s what you do when you finish a novel: you immediately cram all your available time with a strenuous burst of social activity, including getting other people to cook for you as much as possible. To wit: Tonight, Clark Kent is coming over to cook native delicacies from his home planet (and, yes, bringing all

Finished my edits!!! Book is now handed off to Jay for what looks to be fairly minor copyediting, and then he will write help me with my query letter, and then we will be off! I have NO IDEA what to do now. I mean, I have loads of things to do, but I’m stuck

Ten pages to go. I can almost taste it. But I am done for today–my brain is mush, and the last 10 pages are too important to rush through. I’ll have time tomorrow, I’ll do it right. Plus, I want to make some changes in the prologue. Heh. It never stops! ___________ I had an

Here is what I love, love, love about being a writer: When you’re a writer, eventually you get to meet other writers, and eventually they show you their work, and a lot of it is pretty good, and some of it is awful but you can tell them how to fix it, and some of