June 2010
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The Planning Experiment: An update
I have no idea where I left you guys the last time I did a post specifically on my experiment with actually planning out a novel. I’ve made a lot of progress with it regardless. By now, I have the entire plot down. I read the book Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, which is [...]
How much is too much?
Backstory. It’s a tedious balance. Too much means you bore us with your info dump. Too little means we’re too lost to continue. Put too much information in the first couple of chapters and you lose your readers. Too little, and you lose your readers. Readers want to be entertained, not lectured. Also, we want [...]
Writing update: Week 25
Week 25 of 2010 Writing Updates Project Title: Trick of the Coin (the planning experiment has a title, albeit temporary one….) Genre: Urban Fantasy Total New Words: 2812 Current Phase: Zero Draft Current Progress: 11395/95,000 Last Week’s Goal: 2,000 words Next Week’s Goal: 3,000 words Things That Happened in Fiction This Week: If you actually [...]
The Obligatory Father’s Day Post
For the dads that stick around, and are involved with their children’s lives, Happy Father’s Day. Thank you for being there, and taking the time to be there for them. I admire you for being there, and taking your role seriously. And those of you that can’t be there, for some reason or another, and [...]
Writing Update: Week 24
Week 24 of 2010 Writing Updates Project Title: UNTITLED – Currently referring to it as The Planning Experiment Genre: Urban Fantasy Total New Words: 853 Current Phase: Zero Draft Current Progress: 17,948/95,000 Last Week’s Goal: 3,000 words Next Week’s Goal: 2,000 words Things That Happened in Fiction This Week: So, I’m not really surprised I [...]
Kaz's Summer Camp: Week 2
I didn’t do well with the steampunk novella-turned-novel this week. I got about 7600 words, which I was hoping to be about 10-15k. But there’s this coming week and I need to flesh out some things about how I want to get James and Lily from Point A to Point C without hitting the very [...]
Writing Update: Week 23
Week 23 of 2010 Writing Updates Project Title: UNTITLED – Currently referring to it as The Planning Experiment Genre: Urban Fantasy Total New Words: 0 Current Phase: Zero Draft Current Progress: 17,095/95,000 Last Week’s Goal: 5,000 words Next Week’s Goal: 3,000 words Things That Happened in Fiction This Week: Wow, the words have kind of [...]
It's My Anniversary!
So, today, seven years ago, I finally took a positive step in my kids’ futures and mine. On this day, I signed the paperwork that legally made me a single woman again. It wasn’t that happy back then. In fact, I was pretty upset, and lost, and totally unsure of how I would take care [...]
Kaz's Summer Camp: Week 1
This week for me was not very productive, though I have attacked the steampunk novella-turned-novel with a passion this week. I’ve added about 10k to it so far. This week, (and i actually forgot to put this on the last Writing Update post I made) I wrote about 10k of the beginning of the story. [...]
Writing Update: Week 21-22
Week 21-22 of 2010 Writing Updates Project Title: UNTITLED – Currently referring to it as The Planning Experiment Genre: Urban Fantasy Total New Words: 3054 Current Phase: Zero Draft Current Progress: 17,095/95,000 Last Week’s Goal: 5,000 words Next Week’s Goal: 5,000 words Things That Happened in Fiction This Week: So, I didn’t quite make the [...]
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