I’m feeling great. Charged through a truly revolting number of words today and passed the halfway point on the story. It’s taking shape a little differently than I expected, but I like what I’m getting. I’ll have to do a lot of building back once the first draft is done. I can already see one […]
Tag Archives: being better than yesterday
New Year, New Goals
I’ve spent the past few days, apart from being dreadfully ill, working out goals. They’re not resolutions, really, with the exception of the obligatory but largely doomed pronouncement of GET HEALTHY; they’re more elaborate, long-term projects. On the personal front, I have household organizing that needs to be done — there is now only a […]
All I want for Christmas…
…is an internet connection. It seems that the rain causes our phone lines to act up, which in turn prevent me from connecting to the internet long enough or well enough to load even a single site. Dial-up internet is my only real complaint about living in a semi-remote location. I would give anything for […]
Wordy Marathon
See, this is what happens when I dare myself to do stupid crap: I do stupid crap. That all-night writing marathon I suggested last post? Yeah, I’m going to do it. I have six scenes left to the episode of HoC I’m working on. The way I write rough drafts, that amounts to at least […]
Serendipity strikes again
Back in October, I signed up at Procrastinating Writers to get daily tips for keeping up with my NaNoWriMo word count. And lo and behold, after I posted about my fears last night, today’s tip was about precisely that. It included a link to a series of articles, The Things Procrastinators Fear, available on their […]