I have nothing witty to say, but I did get to 25k words. So there's that. Short post since my brain is fried. Life is...complex right now. Lots of difficulty for friends and family and trying to find the balance between helping and maintaining my peace is getting hard. Good thing I have a God … Continue reading Week Eight: 25k

I added a grand total of 2k words this week to my work in progress. Not great. I sat down about every night as usual, but ended up scrolling social media or staring at my Pinterest pages hoping for the ideas to flow. The only times they were flowing this week were when I was … Continue reading Week Seven: In The Weeds

5 K words in one week is not bad. And they're words I liked. I had to stop tonight to write this blog, but lately the flow has been flowing. I don't want to jinx it, but it's going well. At least writing has been going well. Life overall is as complicated as always. The … Continue reading WEEK SIX: Brewing up 18K

The words continue to flow and this week I reached 13,000 in my work in progress. I was shocked when I saw the count because it didn’t feel like it at all. I think that’s because this time, I’m not fighting for every sentence. I finally know my characters well enough to write their scenes … Continue reading Week Five: 13k Words

At Christmas I got Covid followed by Paxlovid rebound. Round two was rough.And then came tonsillitis as in my doctor's words "with tonsils like yoursit's sort of expected" which meant a round of antibiotics and finally,Prednisone to clear up the laryngitis all that left me with. Winter reallyneeds to be over. I'm wearing a mask … Continue reading Week Four: Vitamin P

For a while I’ve been struggling with my female main character. I didn’t ‘get’ her. That sounds kind of nutty since I made her up, but in the past, I’ve had characters come to me fully formed or from a previous book, so it was easy. This time, I was making her up out of … Continue reading Week Three: Breakthrough

Taika Waititi once said of screenwriting “Sometimes writing is opening up your laptop, looking at a blank page on Final Draft for about 8 hours, and then feeling sad, and then closing it. That’s still classified as writing.” And that’s a pretty accurate statement on my current efforts. I sit at the keyboard, stare at … Continue reading Week Two: It’s a hard slog.

I made it a goal to write more consistently this year and here's the update on how it's going. Week one is in the can. Here's how it went: Discipline is training yourself to do something and a habit is when a behavior becomes routine and automatic.  A task formed through discipline that becomes a … Continue reading Week One: Forming a Habit

I’m not one for New year’s resolutions, but I do love setting goals. For 2024 my goals are to eat right, exercise, and finally finish my book. I’ve been working on this for years. After my last book, I took a break to focus on my family and day job, but when I started to … Continue reading 2024: Goals