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My second Monday off was as successful as the first. I added nearly seven pages of new material and was pleased with what I wrote. That gave me momentum and this morning I wrote 600 words that guided the story back to an existing scene which I’ll modify tomorrow. If this experiment continues to be [...]

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Progress on NHI has been disappointingly slow. I thought about taking a week off to focus on it, but I knew what would happen: I’d slack off on Monday thinking that I had plenty of time. Tuesday, too. Something would come up on Wednesday, and then Thursday is so close to the end of the [...]

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This week I started rewriting No Humans Involved after spending some time rethinking the characters and plot. I’m making slower progress than I’d hoped. A combination of lack of sleep and work stress has made it difficult to focus, and I’ve written less than 500 words a day. The good news is that what I’ve [...]

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I’ve heard that you can tell how good a party was by how long it takes to recover from it. The same thing can be said about writers’ conferences. By that measure, this year’s Sleuthfest was a tremendous success, because I’ve been home for three days and I’m still not fully caught up on my [...]

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I found this excerpt from The Lovely Bones in my notebook this morning: Ray’s way of describing such things made her feel as if she knew exactly what it felt like–not just what it looked like. He could evoke everything for her, with small verbal pulse points of which he was completely unaware. I love [...]

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