I had such high hopes and really, I’m not off by much. See, here’s the thing. My current writing project can be divided up into five parts (I’m actually calling them “acts” in the book itself). For some reason, Acts 2 and 3 took a really long time, but Act…
Well, what a week! I’m starting to feel the momentum build. I don’t know why it took me so long to get to my story’s “halfway point,” but it felt like I would never get there. But now that I’ve reached it, it feels like the story is just pouring…
Well, I kind of suspected this week wasn’t going to be all that great. Last Wednesday, I hit a milestone in my work-in-progress. I hit the “halfway point” in the story (well, that’s what I consider it. Upon further reflection, it may be more of a 60% point or so;…
BOOM! That’s what I’m talking about. via GIPHY This week has been crazy. I tried to really hunker down and focus, especially since I knew that I was within spitting distance of the midpoint, the halfway point in my current work-in-progress’s story. It was so close I could practically smell…
Okay, okay, okay. I could make the usual excuses, the same ones that I’ve been making for the past several weeks. I wound up taking four days off this week. Or maybe just three days. Life, work, family obligations, yadda yadda yadda. Second verse, same as the first. I won’t…
Normally I wait until late in the evening to do this post on Wednesdays. But given the schedule I’m facing, I realized that no matter how long I wait, I won’t have the time or the energy to add to my wordcount today. In some ways, that’s disappointing. Last time…
Ugh. It would appear that I done lost my mojo. Remember how, two weeks ago, I reported that I had lost my momentum? Yeah…it kind of never came back. I’m not entirely sure why that is. For some reason, the schedule I had worked out to let me rack up…
I spent some time in the confessional, talking about how, for a while there, I tried my hand at writing screenplays. This resulted in three very lousy scripts, most of which are lost to the ages. But those screenplays weren’t the extent of my literary experimentation. When I was in…
Ugh. This week’s report comes with a hefty lesson in momentum, one that I learned a long time ago, but relearned in a painful way. But numbers first, and then excuses. This week was not good. I was only able to add another 4,098 words to my current work-in-progress, bringing…
So it would appear that my pace faltered a little this week. I was only able to tack an additional 9,281 words onto “Mourning Dove,” bringing the grand total to 37,566 words. I’m actually not that disappointed in those numbers. That meant that, over the past week, I’ve averaged 1,325…