The first draft is...

... done!



Have an awesome weekend!

Day Three of the BIAW

I'm really tired now, but at least the whole story's falling into place. :)

Day Two of the BIAW

Moving along okay. Not as quickly as the tale I wrote last week, but with my daughter home for the school holidays, I only get one writing session at night. After she's gone to bed. So I suppose I'm lucky I'm able to get this much done. :)

Okay, so I started another one...

... because I'm taking part in the latest Cobblestone Main Street BIAW.



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Okay...

I did it! I got the little story finished today:



Yay. I'm really excited to have met my self-imposed deadline. I'm really tough on myself, but it feels so good when I can meet it. :)

So, another first draft is done. And hello to a new one next week.

Have an awesome weekend!

Moved forward

I'm now up to:



I stopped when my heroine was heading into a very sticky situation. Yikes! Wouldn't want to be her at the moment. Will the hero save the day? ;)

Fingers crossed for getting it finished by tomorrow. It sure would be a nice way to end the week.

Just because I wanted to...

I started a new story. It's going to be a short story, but I really got into the groove of it today. I wrote the first 600 words last night, just to see if it worked and yeah, I like it so far.

Here's my progress bar at the end of today's session:



Happy writing!

Wow, it's been a while...

It's me. You all remember me, right? ;)

I haven't checked in for a while, but I've been busy doing a bunch of writing stuff. The main thing I just got through is the second draft of the novel I wrote during February this year. As of right now, it's done. The new word count is 86,032.

I printed the whole thing and by the time I was done, ouch! I had lots of stuff to change. The cool thing is that because I put in all the changes as I went, even the type-in is done. Yay. Now, I'm going to put it aside for a week or two before doing the final draft.

Maybe next week I'll write a new short story. I've had an idea inside my head for a few weeks. After the hard work I put in this week, I deserve a reward tale. Lol.

ytd word count: 143,826

I did it!

You know, I was starting to think that I wouldn't make my self-imposed deadline for the BIAM, but I did. Just now, about ten minutes ago.

Here's where I ended up:



Pretty cool. I want the word count to end up a little closer to 50k by the time the revision process is done... but for now, I'm good. ;)

ytd word count: 141,928

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Haven't popped in for a while...

Hey! I thought it might be a cool idea to post again. :)

This month, I'm taking part in the Cobblestone Main Street BIAM. And so far, this is how my progress is going:



Not bad, I'm pretty happy with the pace I'm writing this story, as well as the story itself. I mean, I've gotten other things done along the way too.

Happy writing!

I forgot to say...

Last week, one day ahead of my self-imposed deadline, I finished the first draft of my novel.

This is the final word count:



I know, I went over the 80k mark. How cool is that?

And check this out ---> ytd word count: 101,869

Checking in again

I haven't popped in here for a while. Just been busy writing and doing a thousand other things too. Here's how my progress meter looks at the moment:



Not bad. I'm hoping to get this first draft done by the end of the week. I'll check back in then.

Have a great week! :)

Passed 200 pages...

I'm totally exhausted this week. Done a lot - edits, newsletter, filled out a bunch of forms for two new contracts, celebrated a new release, and continued with this first draft.

So, here's the progress meter:



ytd word count: 63,366

Have a great weekend!

Hey!

I fell a little behind on the word count yesterday, but caught up today. And maybe I'll squeeze in a little more later. Who knows?

Anyway, this is my progress meter for now:



Hope you all have a lovely writing week!

I've passed the 100 page mark

The hubby's on his way home and I just finished the chapter I was writing. Phew.

I'm tired now. Goodnight. :)

Slowly, slowly

Haven't checked in for a while...

But here's where I'm at after today's -- Monday -- writing session:



Moving along nicely. Making the characters suffer a bit (okay, maybe a lot!) and enjoying the ride. There are going to be some strange people (and not people) in this novel. Lol. It's gonna be a fun one to write.

I would like to write 4k every single day this week. Fingers crossed.

Happy writing and have a great week!

These will be my last words for the day...

I added 5,297 new words to the novel.



Yeah, I'm all outta words for now.

Goodnight.

Back to school = writing!

Yes, that's right. I got back into writing today. But I'm not going back in with revision or a short story. No, I'm embarking on the adventure that is writing a novel. And baby, we have a progress meter:

Okay, so I was (secretly) hoping to get past the 4,000 word stage. But you know what, after not writing a single new word for several weeks, this is awesome! And I'm loving the darkness of this story already.

There you have it, guys. I'm back. ;)

The week of no new words

Yeah, that was last week for me. At least I just got through the edits for Selkie Skin. That's always a good thing. There's too much real life stuff going on at the moment. And my daughter's school holidays seem to be going on forever...

Maybe this week. :/