Author of Young Adult Fiction
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +912 Word challenges worked into scenes: Riparian Tittle Droopy drawers Cuz that’s the way I roll. Total word count to-date: 51,550 Notes: Not a lot of writing time today because I watched the 1984 version …
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1734 Word challenges worked into scenes: Riparian <– TBD Tittle <–TBD [insert character name/you] has/have the brains of a decapitated slug <– Added What the criscatcadoodlefish am I supposed to do with that? <– Added …
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +792 Word challenges worked into scenes: Riparian
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1998 Word challenges worked into scenes: His Fangness
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +901 Word challenges worked into scenes: stereotypical BS
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +4766 Word challenges worked into scenes: Riparian
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +3578 Word challenges worked into scenes: rugose
I need to stop thinking. That’s what I need to do. Yep. Yep. I just need to shut my brain down and make it stop. I asked my writer buddy to help. She refuses. No way. I ain’t standing in front of that freight train. …
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1521 Word challenges worked into scenes: rugose
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1810 Word challenges worked into scenes: Indubitably
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1024 Word challenges worked into scenes: rugose
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1824 (but I edited about 2000 words completely different) Word challenges worked into scenes: rugose
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1645 Word challenges worked into scenes: Imbroglio
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +2277 Word challenges worked into scenes: flabbergasted
Beta reading is sort of a hard thing to do. You have an unprinted manuscript by an author you might, or might not like, and a story that isn’t published, so who knows if it’s really any good. So you put it off, hoping you’ll …
After Dark has been sitting, quite unfortunately, waiting for my attention for the last ::cough:: week because I spent quite a bit of time writing the First Kiss(es) synopsis and query letter. Now that one is ‘done’ (meaning in a draft form that is worth …
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1215 Word challenges worked into scenes: rugose
Note: Change of plans! Instead of forcing myself to write on this project every day, I’ll be writing on this (mostly) and a few other projects as the moment suggests. So, I won’t document days that I don’t write, unless I’m focused on this one …
love ’em. 🙂 My son is beta reading First Kiss(es), so yeah … I gotta love him … but this little conversation made the push and shove, beg and plead for him to read this manuscript alllll worth it. Yes, it’s a romance and yes …
It only takes a few words to make my day…
From a First Kiss(es) reader on Scribophile: From a reader on Scribophile: I just read all 9 chapters. I was so dissapointed there weren’t more! I really like your characters, but the mystery of what is going on is killing me! Of course I’ve offered …