Because it’s Wednesday somewhere still, right? So a few days ago, I posted this picture on Instagram: Doing something scary… I’ll blog about it on Wednesday. #amwriting A post shared by John Otte (@otte.jw) on Dec 4, 2017 at 1:48pm PST And I did promise that I would blog…
It’s been a while. I can’t remember the last time I wrote one of my wordcount updates. It’s not that I haven’t been writing. I have. But each time I thought about doing one, I never really got around to it. So what’s been going on? Well, let’s see here……
Oh, good grief! I just realized that I haven’t exactly been keeping this up-to-date, have I? The last time I wrote a Wordcount Wednesday post, I was closing in on the finish line on my latest WIP and then…well, I never posted another update. And it’s been a month. Bad…
Oh, my goodness gracious. I’m so close. So very close. I can smell it. I can feel the finish line beckoning to me. By my reckoning, I only have two and a half chapters to write in my current work-in-progress: the final two and then the chapter that I skipped…
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…