Obnoxious Gal

Daydreaming about the writing life

Archive for December, 2009

Redo It the Hell Over (Quickie Post)

Monday, December 28th, 2009

It’s finally happened.
No, I haven’t abandoned my current project for another. With luck, that will never happen.
It’s the second worse thing that can happen to a writer. The dreaded writer’s block. The refusal to go on in the face of crippling plot confusion, bad characterization, and just plain too many ideas.
Except that this time, I’m [...]

First Draft Panic

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Short note: I’ll be updating only on Mondays from now on until I think it’s a good idea to update twice a week again. Fridays are busy days, and I’m lucky if I can find the time to do my regular writing. So Mondays it is.
It happened.
Nearly 30K words into my novel. I couldn’t tell [...]

The Incredible Growing World

Monday, December 14th, 2009

I’m over 23K words into my project. At first, I thought this was going to be a 30K-word project, since that’s a nice, average length for a middle grade fiction novel. But the further I get into this world, the more I realize I’m not finished with it.
I’m not talking about a sequel. But since [...]

Dear Author 2

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Dear Author,
If there’s a hell and I’m bound for it, surely I’ll find copies of you there… glaring around the brimstone caverns, arms crossed over your barrel chest, just seething for reasons unknown.
Well, there’s one reason why you’re so angry all the time. We learned that at the little get-together we held for all of [...]

Friday Break Night

Friday, December 11th, 2009

I just couldn’t decide what to write for today’s post, so I decided to take the day off. I think I’ll do a double post Monday.
As for my project: over 19K words in. And it feels so good.