Day 27: NaNoWriMo Winner

Yippee! I met the 50K word challenge!  Three days early! Man, this feels good. I still have quite a ways to go but these last 27 days have helped me see that I can write daily, despite the demands of my day-to-day life. Even if I choose not to produce the same healthy word counts, […]

Day 26: L’amour

Ah, l’amour, l’amour! LAWD hav mercy!  I figured out how to get those two together. **fanning** I was having so much fun that I almost met the 50K challenge today.  I’ll probably keep going through the 30th, however, just to maintain my momentum before I start the rigorous process of revisions. Today’s word count: 3569

Day 25: still no sex

Y’know, it’s kinda hard to have a sex scene when I can’t figure out how to get two people together in the same room at the same time? Furthermore, it doesn’t help that she’s a fugitive and he’s the cop huntin’ her ass! I can’t stand contrived love/sex scenes.  This is probably why I’ve never […]

Day 24: Home stretch

Three weeks down, one more to go. Three weeks of daily writing, plotting and researching.  I’m writing a thriller, so even if (when) I meet the NaNo goal of 50K, the manuscript will be far from complete.    Besides, my goal had never been  to complete a fully publishable novel in one month anyway, that’s goofy. […]

Day 23: dreamscape

This morning, I woke up from a pretty intense dream.  In my dream, I’d been pulled over for a routine traffic stop.  There was road block and every car on this stretch of highway was being stopped and searched.  I was ask to pull over because the address on my driver’s license did not match […]

Day 22: Reflections

Today’s commentary will be relatively brief. The uh, adjustments made to the protags and Bad Dude’s rising conflicts required changes in several secondary characters as well.  I’m excited about the changes but I’ve had to slow down a bit just so I could think through how the changes may impact other characters. Some will be […]

Day 21: Bad Dude Still Rising

I really, really appreciate Bob Mayer’s advice to raise the stakes not only for the protagonists but for the antagonist as well. Today’s writing session took me back to exploring Bad Dude’s motivations and endgame.  When I considered that BAd Dude, my male and female protags should be moving towards their individual goals at about […]

Day 20: Bad dude rising

I read  some great advice today: From Bob Mayer’s 102 Solutions to Common Writing Mistakes Mistake #28: No Escalating Conflict Mr. Mayer says that not only must every scene in a story have conflict, the level of conflict must escalate overall.  Some writers will start with a great hook and then let everything slide downhill […]

Day 19: The Kid

Today was a fun writing day. I met and fell in love with the ten year old kid kidnapped by the bad dudes.  He is an active feisty kid.  His captors expected him to passively accept his captivity but he is fighting tooth and nail.  At times, literally. Did I mention that his family has […]

Day 18: scratch the plan

I love it when my characters do something unexpected, something I hadn’t planned for during my initial planning. I also hate it. Like with any puzzle, you make one change, it has the potential to change the whole story or significant parts of it.  My female protag decided that she did not like the initial […]