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That is in an actual office. And I have to clock in and clock out. Even when I go out to lunch! And I have co-workers ( Read more... )

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My vocabulary is elementary. My ideas are unoriginal. My characters all sound alike. No matter how much I research I will never know what it's really like to be a teenager in Alaska. I use "just," "even," "totally," and "really," way too much. I use "much" too much. I don't know how to forward a plot; I just keep writing random scenes. I will never ( Read more... )

I'm still working on the third draft of TAINTED FROST (TF). I'm still excited about it, which I cannot believe at times, because I've been working on it for over two years now. There have been several novels in the past that I started working on and then gave up because I wasn't invested in the story enough. But with TF? I feel like it's a story ( Read more... )

I had to take a break from revising my novel to write for money, but now I'm back on track. I did have some time to read about half of my novel, and there are a lot of passages (and even entire chapters) that I want to keep. Which is reassuring, because I tend to hate almost everything I write. I have about two months to complete this revision ( Read more... )

 I started revising TAINTED FROST a few weeks ago. It's so exciting! I can't believe how much I love revising. I always thought I would hate it because before I started writing novel-length fiction, revising seemed like a chore. Wouldn't it be great to write a perfect first draft that didn't need any more work? I mean, I guess that would be pretty ( Read more... )

 So, Borders is completely going out of business. All 399 stores will be closed and thousands of people will be out of work.

This makes me so sad. I know it's not the end of the publishing industry, but I feel like the infrastructure is slowly crumbling, and soon, it will be totally destroyed. It hurts me, because I think of it as my industry, even ( Read more... )

 I finished the second draft of my WIP, TAINTED FROST, yesterday at around 1 a.m. *dance dance dance ( Read more... )

 I started working on the third draft of my work-in-progress, TAINTED FROST, even though I'm still not completely done with the second draft. I really want to finish the second draft no matter how crappy it is before I start on the third one. Maybe writing this blog post and telling the world about my failures will embarrass me into actually doing ( Read more... )