writing
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It was an age old tradition, taking the old and making it new. She watched her grandmother soak the old clothes into the dye and make them new again. Always solid colors and never anything too showy. She had a different style and decided to try a new technique. “Look grandma!” She said, holding up…
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He gasped when he broke into the cave of wonders. He had gotten past the Mother of All Evil and found her stash of loot. After a moment of awe, he started under the Great Basin and then got lost in the treasure. Her toddler was mysteriously quiet. That meant trouble. After a brief search,…
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The planned expansion did not go as planned. Around every corner, another snag waited. Workers got hurt, plans got lost, people simply started to disappear. Still they pushed forward. Despite the tragedy that surrounded the new building project, the foreman brought his daughter to work with him. “Daddy,” she said, pulling on his sleeve as…
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He was too perfect. He could complete difficult tasks with ease, and do it all with a smile. There had to be something wrong with him. For months, he had everyone else fooled, but she found out his secret when he slammed the stack of paperwork on her desk when no one else was looking…
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Happy May Everyone! I have wanted to do a challenge like this for months, something to help me blog every day and flex some writing skills. I could not find anything that looked like fun, so I made one. Here’s what I came up with: I chose 31 random words, one for each day of…
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Well, another month of writing and goals done. April is always a bit of a tough month for me, with difficult anniversaries, but it ended up working out well in the end. Goals from April: Camp NaNoWriMo: 40,180 Ghost House Heart: 14,770 I finished Under Grey Skies with a total of 138,799 words and 11,247…
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A lot of the time, as writers, we work on pieces for long periods of time. Novels, short stories, even poems can take years and years to come to completion. Sometimes, we tend to get stuck in the middle and think there is no way out, especially since middles are characteristically the hardest to write…
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Hello Everyone! April is just around the corner, and that means Camp NaNoWriMo! This year, I’m working on two projects. Finishing up my project from NaNoWriMo 2019, and starting a new project. Under Grey Skies: Doing my best to finish up my 2019 NaNo Novel by the end of April. Book Nine of the LOVED…
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Wow, compared to January, February seemed to take forever, and March is already flying by in a blur. In February 2020: Wrote 6,396 words in various projects Wrote a Short Story, BY HAND! Unfortunately, I didn’t do much else as far as writing goes. Sometimes, other things in the world come first before my writing…
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I started this year with a lot of hefty goals for January and unfortunately not many of them were reached. January has been a whirlwind of changes and so many exciting things that writing in January just kind of took a backseat. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing at all. We all need breaks…
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Here we are again at the start of a new year and a new decade. It seems like just yesterday that it was 2019 (yes, I did make that joke). Here’s some of the cool stuff I did and created in 2019 and the statistics to go along with it, because I enjoy numbers. In…
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Week Two is over and gone. Thank goodness! Because it struck with a vengeance. Week Two is traditionally when the act of writing gets difficult and writers reach walls or struggle through their drafts. I am no exception to that, but with a few more issues during the week. Day Eight: 2,525 (I broke a…
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One week of NaNoWriMo 2019 is now completed for all the writer’s working on their novels this year. I am very happy to say that it has been a very productive week for me, despite having a few “low” days. My goal for this month is 120K, twice the goal of 50K and then some.…
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For the first time this month, I’ve done something I have never done. I finished Inktober, but it was Inktober with a twist. In October, I participated in Inktober (Writer Edition). Fifty words of fiction daily. I did it with a twist yet again, and added ink drawings as well. Here’s what I learned: Writing…
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October is swiftly coming to a close and November is beckoning. Thousands of people are putting away their ink pens and pulling out their laptops instead. October has been very productive for me. Here’s what I’ve done: October Results: Finished The Kiss: 128,888 (Notes:12,678) Inktober: 1665 Total: 44,415 Other Things: Edits: I have printed out…
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Prequels are a sticky subject. Some people enjoy them, some people can’t stand them. For the first time, I wrote one, and finished it. Here’s what I’ve learned. Prequels Vary: For some prequels, the main characters are the same as in the rest of the books in a series. For this prequel, I decided to…
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The internet is full of people and ideas and social media platforms. There are hundreds and hundreds of posting challenges happening at any time. In September, I participated in Instawrimo. Instawrimo is a thirty day posting challenge on Instagram for getting prepared for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Here’s what I learned over the last…
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Here we are at the end of another month already. September Results September has been very interesting for writing. I haven’t really focused on all the projects I said I would be working on a few months ago, but sometimes that’s how it goes. The Kiss: 23849 Inktober prep: 339 Blog: 1017 Total: 25205 Other…
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Hello Everyone! These past few days have been very exciting for me, and I’ll go into that in a few posts that will be coming out soon. This is a message going out, talking about a few changes that are going to be happening within the next few days/weeks. The first change is that I…