Thankful

My apologies for posting late.  We had internet issues today.
Every Thanksgiving before our family eats dinner, we each say what we’re thankful for.  So what are your characters thankful for at this moment in their story or in general?  And what are you thankful for as a writer?
I’ll post my answers in the comment section.

T-DAY!!

It’s Thanksgiving!
Go eat some pie!
See you next week!

Happy Almost Turkey Day!

This has got to be the most unusual Thanksgiving Week I’ve had in years.
First, I’m not frantically trying to complete a 50,000 word manuscript for NaNoWriMo. Whew! I HATE admitting defeat, but it was an excellent decision considering subsequent events.
Second, I’m unemployed, having been laid off last week. (See? I told you dropping out of [...]

Still writing

It’s the last week of NaNoWriMo. I’ve lost momentum since finishing the rough draft of the WIP I started working on. This tells me my original plan of writing three novellas during the month would have failed because part of the drive to keep you going through long days of writing is seeing the end. [...]

Writing Software

Do you ever use software.  I have Liquid Story Binder and HEALaDOC.  I can’t figure Liquid Story Binder the heck out.  It’s really weird.  The only thing I like them for is there character dossiers.  I tried to get one to print here but I can’t seem to.  They’re very cool though.  Complete with a [...]

Thursday 13: Romance Words on SATs

Yeah, so I am late. Ooops. I semi-sorta forgot today was Thursday. This stay at home writer stuff blurs the days of the week for me a bit. I get so wrapped up in my writing, outside life ceases to exist at times. It is a good and a bad thing. The writing is going [...]

NaNo No More

My 2008 NaNoWriMo experience came to a screeching halt over the weekend, but ultimately, this is a good thing.
My muse has been AWOL for most of the month. She dropped a fab idea on me at the end of October…just in time to get me all fired up for NaNo…and then walked out without telling [...]

Week 3

Weeks one and two went so well. I cruised past 26,000 words (and finished my exceedingly rough draft) of one project Saturday. And then I took a day off. It was my downfall. Now I’m trying to write the other 24k words so I can at least say I hit word count, even [...]

I had to stop doing NaNo in the interest of doing edits for the story I’ve already sold.  More’s the pity but sometimes responsibility comes first and I thought I could do both but that turned out to be very much untrue.  Oh well.  I hear Melissa Blue is already done though.  Go Melissa.
So one [...]

Character Personality (another lame post title)

In the process of reworking my current WIP, I’ve had to rework the heroine and hero too.  The heroine needed her mean streak and hostility more defined and demonstrated in a way that fit her personality.  The hero needed to leap from one-dimensional to three.  In the original story, he’s like a life-size cardboard cutouts [...]