Author of Young Adult Fiction
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 …
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +2250 Word challenges worked into scenes: Flatulence
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +831 Word challenges worked into scenes: Semantics
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1985 Word challenges worked into scenes: Limned
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1977 Word challenges worked into scenes: Pettifogger
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +3886 Word challenges worked into scenes: Craptastic
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +3301 Word challenges worked into scenes: Bifurcated
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +226 Word challenges worked into scenes: None! No one gave me one! Total word count to-date: 8,871 Notes: Epic fail. Epic fail. A week of getting up at 6:45 am and staying up until midnight …
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +2205 Word challenges worked into scenes: o knorks (
I didn’t take a break from writing, just one from writing THIS story. I did manage to piece together 2500 words in something altogether different and will not share in this blog. 🙂 Sorry!
Boo hiss. Haven’t written a single word today. Thought about it. Got distracted. Suck is life for a Monday. Back on target tomorrow … I promise … 🙂
I completely, totally and absolutely understand that it’s hard to give others feedback. It is. It just is. Especially to writers. Who wants to say ‘your story sucks’ or ‘I loved it’ without being able to give details? And who wants to say that when …
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): 2146 Total word count to-date: 6440 Notes: I put in 2 solid hours of writing today. Okay … wait … no. I put in one solid hour of writing, about 20 minutes of research on …
Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): 1497 Total word count to-date: 4,294 Notes: I’d intended to start much earlier and to write for a few hours. Instead, I celebrated the new year by sleeping until nearly noon, watching a couple movies …
Word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): 1,131 Total word count to-date: 2,711 Stress level at completion: None! Though I do wish I’d accomplished more. I was highly but happily interrupted at home. Time allotted to writing: Hit or miss for 2 hours …
Ah… I couldn’t resist, but started 1 day early. 🙂 Word count: 1,544 Stress level at completion: way low …. good writing’ time to begin Chapter 1! Time allotted to writing: Dunno. Hit or miss for 2 hours ish Completed: Chapter 1, Scene 1. Favorite …