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This and That

Life in Motion, 70 Days of Sweat Writing Challenge

Today I’m over at the 70 Days of Sweat blogging about Comparisons. It’s hard for a writer not to compare his or herself to others, but really, try to avoid this!

So I made bread last night (yeah, with my current schedule I’ve got time for that, right?) But Angie bought this great cookbook called Aristan Bread in Five Minutes A Day (the link to the book…pic included) is on the sidebar of Angie’s blog) and told me about it and Biker Dude and I love homemade bread so I just had to try it out. Loved it. It’s a little bit of work but not the kneading and rising and more kneading kind. And it tasted awesome and looked beautiful so I’m really pleased how it turned out. I’m really not the gourmet chef kind of person, but I do love to cook…as long as it’s easy. :giggle: Anyway, trust me when I say this is easy. If it’s complicated, I don’t do it. Heh.

So this week I have to work both on my daily writing goal and on galleys for The Darkest Touch. I’m not fond of juggling multiple projects. I’m a one project at a time kind of writer. But sometimes I have no choice. I can’t set aside the writing to work on the galleys because I have a drop dead deadline on this book I’m writing, which means I have to write every day. And the galleys are due back next week, which means I have to work on those every day, too. So I juggle. 😥 Sometimes you just gotta make it work.

Anyone watch American Idol this week? What did you think? I think Kristi really needs to go home. And what the hell was Carly doing in the bottom 3?

Monday Stuff

Events, Life in Motion, 70 Days of Sweat Writing Challenge

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Are you wearing green today?

I’m not at all Irish. Italian and German here. Still wearing green though. One must get into the spirit of things, ya know. Even Biker Dude went to work decked out in green today, and he’s not Irish either. :giggle:

So last week was busy. I had an appointment of some sort or another every single day last week. For some reason that really cuts into my writing mojo. I like to get up in the morning, sit at my desk and get to work. Anything that makes me stop screws with my writing flow. Urgh. But I still managed 12,000 words last week. I wanted to get 15,000. I blame all those appointments.

At least the word count is on track. I want to finish this book by the end of the month. We’ll see how I do. This weekend I wrote myself into a plot corner again and spent a lot of time staring at the words on the page, trying to figure out how to get two characters in the same geographical place who weren’t in the same place at the moment, and a plotline that required them to stay in different places. Oy. I think I have it figured out and I’m moving on. (I’ve found that staring at the page really gets you nowhere. You have to keep writing. You can fix it later)

Tonight the Writeminded gals are chatting at Writerspace at 9 p.m. Eastern. Come visit with me, Steph Tyler, Larissa Ione, Amy Knupp and Maya Banks and talk about…well, we tend to talk just about anything :giggle:

Click here for the link to the chatroom

Anyone have fun plans for St Patrick’s Day? Hitting an Irish pub? Making corned beef and cabbage? I’ve never made it, but I love to eat it. We’re out of food here and I haven’t been to the grocery store yet so it might be peanut butter and jelly sandwiches tonight. Um, Irish Jelly. Heh.

Writing Progress

70 Days of Sweat Writing Challenge, Writing & Publishing

12,000 words this week, so rockin and rollin. I’m making good progress on The Darkest Temptation. My goal is to really pump up the word count over the next two weeks and finish the book, then spend the last week of the month editing it so I can be done.

I think I know where I’m going, plotline wise, though I tend to only loosely plot out the book from start to finish and then let the storyline dictate where things go from there. That means sometimes things come to a screeching halt because I’ll write myself into a corner and have to figure out where to go from there. It doesn’t happen too often, but it might when I get near the end of this book, because there are some major things happening and I’m not sure how I’m going to work it all.

In other words, I kinda sorta know what I want to have happen, but right now the big climax is rather vague in my head. Which means I need to start thinking less vague and more concrete, before I actually hit that part in the book and find myself staring at the page going…uhhh…derrrrrr….now what?

Y’all are just freakin fascinated with how my mind works aren’t you? :giggle: