Life under a pandemic is hard. There’s no two ways to get around that fact. No matter your circumstances. Whether you’re locked down alone, with a partner, with grown children, young children, babies, elderly parents, lockdown in whatever form, is hard. And today we’re officially gradually coming out of it. People are being encouraged to […]
My Writing Life ~ Slow Going
I’m not used to my writing life being this way, but it’s slow going right now. When we last talked, two weeks ago, I was on 13,000 words. Today I am only on 20,000 words. 7,000 word progression in two weeks. That’s poor. I told you last time that this book was tangling me up […]
My Writing Life ~ Reminiscing NaNoWriMo
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last did a writing life post. Last week I was busy sharing the posts from latest release, Kill For Me. So, what has been filling my life this past week? The standalone novel that I told you I got back, which was half written. I have set […]
My Writing Life – Winning #NaNoWriMo
Last week I talked about being in need of a rest because I was so tired from working hard on my NaNoWriMo project and my editing project. Well, this week I passed the 50,000 word mark on the NaNo project! That is the word count that everyone aims for when they start at the beginning […]
My Writing Life – In Need of a Rest
It’s been a mixed week this past week. I’ve both excelled in my writing goals and needed to a day off and to rest. I’ve been saying that I want to write a full novel and not just the NaNoWriMo 50,000 words this month, but I haven’t really been doing the words to advance that […]
My Writing Life ~ Working With Pain
Last week was the first week of this new series, My Writing Life, and I talked about the fact that I had started NaNoWriMo as well as having another project on which I was editing. Well, I ended the week on 11,009 words which were on track as far as NaNoWriMo was concerned. It had […]