Still beavering away slowly. (Can you beaver away slowly or does beavering involve haste?!) Word count is down partly because I lost my writing mojo earlier in the week and partly because I'm going back tightening up what I've got as well as writing more. I know I was just going to write and get it all down, but I want to enter it in the RWA's STALI contest (Single Title and Loving It). You need to enter the first 10,000 words of a manuscript - I'm entering it for the feedback, not with any expectation of winning!
So currently up to 6,340 words. I'm in the middle of a scene and need to leave it to simmer while I work out where its going. I have one scene from the beginning of the book that is just completely wrong - the character has changed from when I wrote it - so I need to think about how to rewrite it. The rest is ok, just needs a lot of cutting & polishing, and a bit of research on setting. Oh and 1,000+ of those words belong to a scene that actually comes a lot later in the book but I needed to write it when it came to me. So really I have about another 5000 words to write and then edit the heck out of it all in the next 3 or 4 weeks. It closes sometime in September.
Having said all that, I am still aiming for my 50,000 words by Oct 24th. I'll just have to work a bit harder some weeks!
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
I'm a fraction behind my targeted goal words - I was going to write on Saturday night but kept getting distracted watching the election.
On Saturday I met with the Newcastle Maitland RWA group - what a fun few hours! I didn't get any writing done, but we had a lot of fun! We chatted about the conference and the Clayton's conference, discussed the upcoming competitions, talked about writing craft, chatted some more. They seem a lovely group of ladies!
Oh and I got a huge bag of prizes from the Clayton's conference! Yay!
On Saturday I met with the Newcastle Maitland RWA group - what a fun few hours! I didn't get any writing done, but we had a lot of fun! We chatted about the conference and the Clayton's conference, discussed the upcoming competitions, talked about writing craft, chatted some more. They seem a lovely group of ladies!
Oh and I got a huge bag of prizes from the Clayton's conference! Yay!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Am I mad?
Yes, quite probably :)
I'm stepping up the campaign to write a book before my 40th b'day - I have 10 weeks (counting this week), and am aiming for the NaNoWriMo target of 50,000 words. That's only 5,000 a week which is quite doable if I can carve out about an hour / day, 5 days / week. It certainly won't be world class, but I want to a) get into the habit of writing each day and b) finish something!! I'm going to just sit and write in the hope that I can silence both my inner editor and inner critic while I'm doing it. Both of them are very inhibiting when I write..
I'm stepping up the campaign to write a book before my 40th b'day - I have 10 weeks (counting this week), and am aiming for the NaNoWriMo target of 50,000 words. That's only 5,000 a week which is quite doable if I can carve out about an hour / day, 5 days / week. It certainly won't be world class, but I want to a) get into the habit of writing each day and b) finish something!! I'm going to just sit and write in the hope that I can silence both my inner editor and inner critic while I'm doing it. Both of them are very inhibiting when I write..
Monday, August 16, 2010
RWA Clayton's Conference 2010
I had the best weekend. I took part in the RWA Clayton's conference - for those that couldn't make it to the actual conference at Coogee. For 3 solid days, we chatted, had guest speakers (real live published authors!) in the chat room, did writing challenges, threw virtual parties. It was so much fun that it was hard to come back down to earth today.
I learnt so much about writing, had some lightbulb moments, learnt about different genres - from Sweet category to paranormal, from historical to erotica, and I'm sure there were more as well, different publishing styles and so on.
It was really exhausting but so much fun!! We even had our own Awards night last night and I even won a few prizes! I feel my writing has improved even just in the few days of challenges - and at the very least my confidence certainly has.
I made some great friends; its been a wonderful introduction to the RWA. And the really fun thing is, I "met" 3 ladies who are in our local writing group, so I no longer feel shy about going along to it. Can't wait til Saturday now!!
I learnt so much about writing, had some lightbulb moments, learnt about different genres - from Sweet category to paranormal, from historical to erotica, and I'm sure there were more as well, different publishing styles and so on.
It was really exhausting but so much fun!! We even had our own Awards night last night and I even won a few prizes! I feel my writing has improved even just in the few days of challenges - and at the very least my confidence certainly has.
I made some great friends; its been a wonderful introduction to the RWA. And the really fun thing is, I "met" 3 ladies who are in our local writing group, so I no longer feel shy about going along to it. Can't wait til Saturday now!!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
New direction
I'm putting aside my kid's book for a while. I'm not sure what's wrong but it's not "talking to me" :)
In the meantime I have this other family in my head that keeps pestering me to come out. It's a fascinating process coming up with their backstory - almost interviewing the characters. "So tell me, why don't you get along with your sister?" lol
Will run with it and see where it takes me.
In the meantime I have this other family in my head that keeps pestering me to come out. It's a fascinating process coming up with their backstory - almost interviewing the characters. "So tell me, why don't you get along with your sister?" lol
Will run with it and see where it takes me.
Monday, August 2, 2010
I've been editing my 'Fractured Fairy Tale' for a fun competition I'm entering. My first draft had plot holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through!
The competition is part of a Clayton's Conference weekend through the RWA (Romance Writers of Australia). They're having their real conference in a couple of weeks time and for those that can't make it to that, they also hold a 'clayton's' online conference. It sounds like a lot of fun!
The competition is part of a Clayton's Conference weekend through the RWA (Romance Writers of Australia). They're having their real conference in a couple of weeks time and for those that can't make it to that, they also hold a 'clayton's' online conference. It sounds like a lot of fun!
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