Another 2,000 words today. Total: 9,000. Which, if I’m aiming for a 60K YA, is a lot! (note: at this pace it’s going to be WAY more than 60K.) I’ve realized that not every single word in the previous draft is utter junk, so maybe 400 of today’s words were adapted from a previously-written scene. […]

Yesterday’s measly words were like pulling teeth; today’s flowed like…flowy things. Two thousand words in like an hour. Satisfying enough that I felt like I could take the evening off, lie on the couch and read a book. (Which I haven’t done in FOREVER! Felt very good!) Funny, writing. You never know what’s going to

I just finished a thousand words in Hobgoblin and it was like pulling frigging teeth. Perhaps I’m tired…it was a very busy day (of many accomplishments!), but, wow. I was hoping to get up to a 2,000-word-a-day pace, but…THIS WAS NOT THAT DAY. Maybe tomorrow… ____________ In other news, I took the Miata in for

So it was totally SNOWING this morning but I walked to yoga ANYWAY because I am MIGHTY and besides the snow was very pretty and I caught some on my tongue and it felt funny on my eyelashes and. And furthermore I walked through the snow to yoga UPHILL BOTH WAYS. And then I did

Well, that was a nice start on the rewrite of Hobgoblin, anyway…then the last two days have been spent pretty much full-time (and then some) on a couple of freelance jobs–one a rush, one which took rather longer than it should have. But they are both done now! But, it is late and I am

I revised the first thousand and added a second thousand words to the reboot of Hobgoblin today. Progress! I like how it’s going. I’m finding my way into the story (it always takes a bit of poking around to get the rhythm at first…) Elsewise, it was a very physical and busy day. Yoga class;

Well, I did it, I finally restarted Hobgoblin…I’ve been thinking about it long enough, it was time to finally do it! I got just over 1,000 words down, in the first scene, and I think it’s good. I could probably have gone further, but I don’t want to rush it. (But I DID have a

Busy day! Lots of freelance work done, plus a swim and yoga (and the VERY THRILLING realization that I am getting stronger every day in yoga–gee, there must be something to this practice-every-day concept…) and Camille came for dinner, which was fabulous and fun. And Mark has been working on a brand-spanking-new website for a

I’m outlining Hobgoblin anew, changing everything… It’s a fascinating process, actually–I think I’m going to start the story sooner, not just make the characters younger. Which means I need to actually write the parts that only get referred to in the as-written manuscript. Which means I really need to visualize them, to figure them out…which

Today was going to be the day I started the rewrite of Hobgoblin (or at least the outlining); instead, I did a billion-jillion other things. Copying things and erranding things and tidying things and hooking-up-new-printer things and I even cooked a complicated meal (yielding days of leftovers YAY). And also swam and did yoga. And