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01 Dec

NaNo 2009 is over, and I have 80k words of novel to revise.

First off, I want to thank my family, my fingers, Holly, and Steve Jobs for making this possible.

On to new business.

The first worksheet for How To Revise Your Novel asks the question:

What was the idea that made you want to write your story in the first place?

There are four blank lines to be filled with handwriting.  Okay.  Um.  Handwriting.

Aside from that, there is the whole problem that this story has its own backstory, which I don’t think will fit into four lines.

Let me try:

I wanted to tell the story of a woman who, rather than reinventing herself–for she was a businesswoman at the start and at the end–discovers and integrates a new part of herself. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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I’m behind my quota, and I can’t see around it. Whine.

19 Nov

Still playing NaNo–and getting a bit behind my planned word count.  In fact, I’m so worded out that I’m too empty even to talk about it.  Here is the note I dropped off at the NaNoWriMo forum itself.  I think it says everything.

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Posted in Mystery, Romance, Writing

 

More rugged than handsome, really.

12 Nov

For starters, the little plastic cover over my keyboard, the one that protects the pricey notebook keys from things like sneezes and Cheeto dust (not to mention Cheeto-dust laden sneezes and the occasional Dr. Pepper snort as I tickle the living daylights out of myself) is wearing out.  I didn’t mind it so much when the letters began to fade, because, well, peeking is cheating, you know, and I hate to put spell checker out of a job.  But now, under the stress of NaNoWriMo, the plastic is stretching.  There’s a little bubble or hill that comes up over the G-H nexus.  Talk about typos, I’m getting some that are more worthy of a chick with plastic fingernails than a nice, stable, granny-type person like your humble blog hostess.

Fascinating as the above paragraph might be, it is not the topic of this post.  Look here: Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Honestly, I’m not usually a fast woman.

09 Nov

Still playing NaNo, and it really does feel like a game.

With dice, maybe those twelve-sided ones, and also cards to draw, and–

Despite my shoot-from-the-lip personality as a person, I’m strictly controlled and prepared as a writer.  That is to say, I polish up my Sentence, work hard on my Blurb and turn out a pretty good Synopsis.  Generally the synopsis is followed by note cards, one for each important scene, complete with Sentence Lite.

NaNo is different.  Writing fast is the reason, I think. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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NaNo has begun!

01 Nov

So, last night I stayed up late, waiting for midnight, and when midnight came, I wrote a scene about people waiting for midnight. They weren’t waiting for NaNo, though. They were waiting for the New Year, at a swank party in Dallas.

It went okay. I found out some new things. The mother is stronger and more worried than I had realized in the planning stages. The kid sister is more naive than I’d figured. And my MC is anything but a Mary Sue. In fact, the reader is not going to like her much in the first few scenes. They’ll like Bridget, the kid sister, though. Doyle has not yet appeared, though he has been mentioned and Abby has thought about him a little. Really, I had thought Abby was more content with her life, and Louisa, too. I mean, I knew they were all wounded, but I thought they were happy now that they were rich. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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