I’m up to page 137 (of 335). There’s some workable stuff here, but this book has ‘issues’. Lots to be cut/revised. Of course, the challenge for me will be: What to cut; what to revise; what to keep. But isn’t it that way for all of us? I need to … Continue reading →
I’m crawling through it. I haven’t become violently ill yet, so that’s a plus. I do tend to like what I write when I’m “in the zone” and not thinking about it. I also blush to think that someone else will read some of this stuff. Oh, my! And this … Continue reading →
I wrote the two scenes, deleted another, crossed the 100k barrier and came back to finish at 99,709. I did the formatting changes last night. I was still finding continuity errors this morning. I’m updating the timeline and wordcount breakout now–looking for a more equitable way to break the book … Continue reading →
I wasn’t too far off on my original attempt. All I have to do now is figure out how to reduce the padding around them, and I’ll be more pleased with the result. As I figured, it was easy. I’m not sure how I manage to make easy things hard … Continue reading →
Although that *looks* like 100% up there, don’t let it fool you. I have two scenes to write, one scene to rewrite, and numerous formatting things to cross-check. If I do things right, the numbers will be close to the originally planned 100k. Only then will I report I have … Continue reading →
My physical therapist gave me homework for the weekend. Five simple exercises. Three of them *are* simple. One is challenging, and another is just plain painful. I did them today–or most of them. I did more today than I did last night. The two difficult ones are supposed to be … Continue reading →
Whew! Holly and I have been running from shortly after 6am this morning. She was working on a proposal, and I was rewriting on PBOTL. We just finished. She’s off to get something to eat–I suspect she eats more than swords and drinks more than cold water, but even with … Continue reading →
Good progress today. Got my words back plus a few. The comedy sketch will need reworking, but I got the first cut done. Thanks to RuthAnne’s Bob Newhart suggestion, I stopped at BestBuy this afternoon and picked up his double album–the one I wanted and coincidentally, the only one they … Continue reading →
Made good progress this morning. Of course, in pondering a really lame piece of dialog, I was reminded I need to be able to defend why my words are appearing in this particular production. Even more critical, my words need to be able stand on their own for why they … Continue reading →
I Two-Day ordered some Fireworks-specific books that will hopefully keep Fireworks from bruising me further when I work on it this weekend. In the interim, I did some more work on PBOTL. I added 250 more words, most of which help complete the picture of what my characters are doing … Continue reading →