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…