To my fellow parents who are watching their best-laid plans take a backseat to summer and often, to kids. This pic was taken of me and my kids 9 years ago. I am looking at it with a lump in my throat thinking they are all going off or back […]
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I just finished revising my 12th book and sent it to my editor at 3 a.m. this morning. I wish I could say that along with this achievement, there’s fireworks and cake. (Well, okay, there is strawberry rhubarb pie. Yay!) But it mostly comes with exhaustion, and an eye directed […]
Celebrating with pie
This is Part 3 of a 3-part series. For five days, from June 26-30, 2018, I wrote a 50,000-word contemporary romance novel after an epiphany at a writer’s retreat. Read Part 1 – Journal here. Read Part 2 – Pre-Writing here. How to write a 50,000-word novel in 5 days: […]
How I wrote a 50,000-word novel in 5 days – ...
This is Part 2 of a 3-part series. For five days, from June 26-30, 2018, I wrote a 50,000-word contemporary romance novel after an epiphany at a writer’s retreat. I journaled about it here in Part 1. These were the steps I took before I even tried to write a […]
How I wrote a 50,000-word novel in 5 days – ...
This is Part 1 of a 3-part series. From June 26-30, I wrote a 50,000-word novel in 5 days. Below is the play-by-play of how I did it. Friday, June 22 Initially, I just wanted to write a 50,000-word to-market book at my typical 30-day, give-or-take, speed. I was sitting […]
How I wrote a 50,000-word novel in 5 days – ...
I did it! I wrote a 50, 021 word novel in 5 days! I had already pretty much wrapped up my story at 43k, but I wanted to technically reach the 50k mark so I doggedly chased that number by adding several scenes. I know it was crazy, but I […]
How I wrote a 50k-word novel in 5 days
I reached a milestone today. I wrote the most words I’ve ever written in one day: 12,270. To give you perspective of how that breaks down: during a 20 minute sprint, I can usually produce 500-700 words. So my output today means that I sprinted roughly 20 times, which translates […]
How I wrote 12,000 words in one day
Maybe someone needs to read this as much as I need to remind myself of this: stay true to yourself. Don’t buy into the falsehood that you are not good enough the way you are. Instead, celebrate your uniqueness. God made each of us into a special being with a role to […]
Stay true to yourself
I am at 23,208 words towards Jockeying to Jeopardy, knocking out 2,976 words today sprinting with my fab writing buddies. Which means I am nearly to the halfway point of a viable novel. Woo-hoo! I say “viable” because on the minimum, my goal is to write 50k words. But 60k […]
Nearly halfway!
I almost didn’t want to go back today. By three p.m. my seven-day social media fast (off Facebook, Twitter & Instagram as suggested by our LDS Church prophet) was over. But I waited until after dinner, Family Home Evening, and a nice evening stroll with the family before checking Facebook. […]
