Time for the weekend update on The Romance Novel Project. Since I missed my Thursday post due to work-induced exhaustion, I'm going to combine them in this one. The short and sweet of it is that I believe I've figured out how to fix my conundrum of fearing that I need to switch the roles … Continue reading Romance Update: Edit as I Go
Drafting and Revising
Size Matters: Word Count
Last week, I stated that I would not edit Carmilla’s Ghost until after Christmas. Sadly, that lasted for about three days before I reread the manuscript and made plans for the edits. So technically, I still haven’t edited the text, but I have reviewed and thought about what I’m going to do. I have spent … Continue reading Size Matters: Word Count
The Importance of Rest
It’s the second week of December, and my fall semester is coming to an end. Yesterday, I also completed the first draft of Carmilla’s Ghost, the second Sam Hain adventure novel. Liam’s Doom took me from November through March to draft, but I managed to draft this book in forty-one days. Part of that was … Continue reading The Importance of Rest
The Shitty First Draft and Revisions
So, let's start with a final update from NaNoWriMo2020. I hit 51,247 words before the en of November. That means I "won" NanoWriMo, and given how slowly I wrote Liam's Doom and my dissertation, this feels amazing. I know I wanted to have the entire draft completed, but that didn't happen. And that's okay. I'm … Continue reading The Shitty First Draft and Revisions
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