The days in which you have a word count requirement, and you write one or more scenes or pieces of scenes and advance the word count along. YAY for these days! There are also days in which you have a word count requirement, but you realize there’s some foundational issue that needs to be restructured,[…]
As I noted below, one of the main reasons I’ve been absent from the blog of late is my tight deadline for DRINK DEEP(CV 5), which is scheduled for publication in November 2011. Although I hope this book will has lots to offer in the end, it’s been a struggle to draft thus far. Perhaps[…]
I am five days away from my (revised) deadline on HARD BITTEN.* While I work feverishly to finish up the final scenes, here’s a little food for thought. It’s the organizational matrix purportedly penned by J.K. Rowling to plot out one of the Harry Potter books. Interesting method, no? * – Note that finishing the[…]
The hardest part of writing a novel is, for me, the initial 20,000 words or so. The book has no momentum, so it feels like every 500 words is a slog to get through. And then, about 25,000 words or so, the book begins to magically take shape. Enough scenes are written that the book[…]