I know I’ve said this before, but here it is again: every writer finds a process that works for *that writer*. Then writers try to describe their processes to normal humans who don’t write, and use metaphors and analogies and make funny faces and gesture with their hands, and say “It’s like….” a lot. And Read More…
Category: the writing life
Words, Words, and Word Software
My traditional lament for the demise of Word*Star and spot of loathing for MS Word: o waily woe (lament) and grrrr (spot of loathing.) Word*Star did not lose files or parts of files unless you made a really stupid mistake with a dot command. Which I did, once. (Once was enough! That whole unversal action Read More…
NewBook Charges On
80,000 words on May 13. There’ve been some “blank” days on which other stuff happened, and of course lots of other stuff is happening to everybody everywhere. But NewBook is well past any concern about “Will it gel into a book?” It’s definitely going to make a book, though “But will it be a GOOD Read More…
On the Scent: Tally-ho
New Book changed gears this week, as I said a couple of times. From a story that, on March 24, was still wandering about, not giving me much sense of where it was headed, just over 51,000 words, and took another five days to reach 52,500 by the end of the day March 29, it Read More…
NewBook Wakes Up
NewBook has acquired impulsion (in horses, the compressed desire to go forward…the horse is “between legs and hand” or “on the bit”.) It’s pushing me now to write more , a very good sign, even if, in the end, it means dumping a lot already written. Sunday the 29th, it was at 52,500+ a bit Read More…
Busy With Nothing (Not)
The number of balls in the air varies from day to day. Basic maintenance (at which I’m not as good as some people) always includes some cooking, some barn chores, some “land” chores, some business chores (email, mail, etc.) and some writing. Of the writing some is work on the book, some is work about Read More…
Where are we, again?
NewBook is over 51,000 words now. We had sunshine (bright, unclouded sunshine) nearly all day today and the solar panels produced just a hair under 40 Kwh. We are still healthy. For supper we had many-bean and ham soup, from the freezer. (I make bean soup a couple of times a winter and freeze whatever Read More…
Post Birthday, March 11: NewBook Meanders On
The end of January began a month-plus illness that pretty much ate February for lunch…I was calling it “The Cough That Never Dies” because I’d think I was better and then spend 20 minutes coughing until I almost passed out. However, good stuff also came in February. After the fairly dire predictions about Tigger (that Read More…
Mid-January Progress
New Book is at 170 manuscript pages, 34, 280 words, and the plot is thickening. I’m limited in time for it right now, as the legally required reports must be done by their deadlines, but the book needs a daily or almost daily infusion of time and thought and energy…so while it’s not moving *fast* Read More…
Moving Forward
NewBook is now over 100 pages. It was chugging along fairly well, but then…it was delayed when my horse Tigger, who is a 14.3 hand Arabian with minimal jumping experience, decided to run flat out toward a five foot three inch pipe framed fence and jump it. Both he and the fence came off worse Read More…