Posted in LaShawn's Work, Weeping of the Willows, Writing, tagged editing, fantasy, fiction, novel, revising, work, Writing on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
My desk is clean. The whole house is clean. The boy is currently watching Diego. I got some free time on my hands. I could work on a new blog post (all right, I’m writing it now, yes. I know that. But there’s a reason for all this. Bear with me, okay?). But I could [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows, Writing on October 22, 2007 | No Comments »
I think I’m going to have to take my Willow Synopsis down.
Last week marked the first edits of Willow…well, if you don’t count the reworking of the first fifteen chapters when I got back into writing it. I officially started my editing by whacking out a supporting character’s plotline. I also started an outline of [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows, Writing, Writing Blues, Writing Conferences, tagged Kaleidotrope, Midwest Literary Festival, The Muse, The Muse Online Writer's Conference, Writing on October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
October already, huh?
It amazes me how time simultaneously crawls and speeds. When Kaleidotrope sent me the acceptance note for my story “Click” back in April, I didn’t think I could wait until October for it to be published. And now, here it is, October 1, and it feels a little weird.
It’s not just a new [...]
Posted in Fun!, Weeping of the Willows, Writing on July 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It feels weird.
When I sit at my computer at night, I automatically start to move the mouse towards the Willow folder I keep in my toolbar. Then I remember, oh yeah. I finished the book. Then I think, wait a second. I don’t have to write anymore at night. How come I’m not downstairs watching [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows on July 11, 2007 | 7 Comments »
It is done. Finished. Kaput. At least, for book one, that is.
I have finally finished my first book, ever. Clocking in at 462257 words. Zounds. That’s a lot of writing.
I had to look in my files to find the earliest dated draft of this book. February 9, 1994 was when I started writing this book [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »
I am already past the 444,000 word limit.
Laundry is sitting in baskets all on bedroom floor.
The boy…has not bathed…for a week.
Brain…is…about…to…explode…
Must…finish…freaking…huge…novel…
Posted in Weeping of the Willows on June 24, 2007 | No Comments »
One major scene down. Two more to go.
Last week, I did 3 chapters. Pretty long ones, too, considering all that happened in them. I don’t know if I can do that this week; my MIL is back, but she heads to the Philippines on Thursday. Hmmm…maybe I can find some creative ways for her to [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows, Writing Blues on June 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Critics and naysayers may say that NaNoWriMo is silly. That it’s not what real writers do when they sit down to write a book. That sitting down and hashing out a bunch of nonsense words doesn’t automatically make you a writer–there’s also planning and plot and structure to consider, etc. and so forth.
However, having gone [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows, Writing Blues on May 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The month of May has been FUN for us.
In-law visits, a new roof being put in, Daniel’s birthday, Mother’s Day. Things have been pretty busy around here. So much so that I realized that I may need to curtail my writing activities. I didn’t feel completely bad about it. I knew I wanted to take [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows, Writing Blues on May 2, 2007 | 4 Comments »
April has been a bad month for Willow. Birthdays, trips to Michigan, snotty noses, other stories suddenly becoming priority. I think throughout the entire month of April, I only worked did three chapters, when normally I do 6. And most of that was rewrites.
It’s something I grew very concerned about because I had just done [...]
