Category Archives: Writing about writing

My Next Big Writing Adventure

Funny how you can find yourself in the middle of something all-consuming, and not remember exactly how you got there. That describes me in relation to the next big step in my fiction writing life.  Somehow in the past two … Continue reading

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Has It Been That Long?

Just because I haven’t posted anything on this blog doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. I finished my rewrite of Free Souls in early February, and in the process I scrapped the title and cut out over 65,000 words of the backstory … Continue reading

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Since Last Time

Work I’ve gotten done since last time: Title: Free Souls Chapter in Play: Part 2, Chapter 12 Beginning Word Count: 91,923 Period’s Ending Word Count: 92,049 Oh, the joys of growing as a writer! Or should that be, “the pains”? … Continue reading

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Work I Got Done on Saturday the 19th

Title: Free Souls Chapters in Play: Part 2, Chapters 11 & 12 Beginning Word Count: 91,185 Day’s Ending Word Count: 91,923 (This ending word count is misleading. It doesn’t factor in the verbiage I cut out. Nor does it reflect … Continue reading

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Concept List

It’s been awhile, hasn’t it?  Too busy writing to post.  Which means– what, you think I’m not getting any writing done now?  Never mind, here’s the fiction I’m working on, in chronological order of conception: Title: Free Souls Also Known As: … Continue reading

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Back Again, with a Big Decision

Or maybe not so big. It’s about my work-in-revision, Free Souls, and its serial publication on this blog. In my last post on the subject, I considered how I should proceed with that, given all the rewriting the book has needed, not just in … Continue reading

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Got a Question

First of all, I really appreciate the Likes and Follows I’ve gotten on this blog.  They’re nowhere near what some people receive, but for all what I get, I thank you. But now I need comments, on the following question. To-wit:  Should … Continue reading

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Too Bad I Ain’t Doing This for the Money

More thinking, more critique forum input, more thinking again about my problem-child chapters in my work-in-revision Free Souls. One reason they’re weak, I’ve decided, is because they’re trying to answer the wrong question.  I’d had my main character verbalize it as … Continue reading

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A Funny Thing

A funny thing happened on my way to editing my novel Free Souls. Funny-ironic, which is midway between funny-haha and funny-peculiar. I don’t like how I’ve written Chapter 19 and 20, in which my heroine reflects on the mess she got … Continue reading

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Re: The Previous Post (Chapter 43)–Spoiler Alert?

It took me over two weeks to extrude Chapter 43 of my work-in-revision, Free Souls.  It took that long to do the research, to get facts and dates and locations right, or as right as I can make them short of … Continue reading

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