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
June 15th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: NHI · Techniques · Writing
15 pages in one day? Sure!
June 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: All About Me · NHI · Writing
Slow progress on NHI
March 25th, 2010 · No Comments
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 [...]
Ending on a high note
December 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment
This morning, I finished the first draft of a short story I’ve been scratching at all year like a persistent insect bite. I’ve already written about the reason it took so long in my last post. Once I got a fuller understanding of my protagonist, writing it became much easier. Frequent pauses during construction of [...]
Tags: All About Me · NHI · Short Stories · Writing
NHI First Draft: Lessons Learned
October 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I finished the first draft of No Humans Involved this morning. It came in at 61,888 words. That word count is a little thin for a mystery novel. Revision will beef it up significantly. My first drafts are always light on setting and description, which means that even if I cut existing material, the second [...]