Mary Sisson's Blog, page 14
November 2, 2021
October 31, 2021
October 30, 2021
October 28, 2021
October 27, 2021
Progress report
I wrote 570 words before the contractors knocked out my power! Whoops!
October 25, 2021
Progress report
Busy day today, so I’m just doing some editing.
One of my pet peeves (keep in mind, I’m quite bad with names) is when characters are given really similar names. You know, “Elaine” and “Ellen”—like, there are thousands upon thousands of names out there, and this is what you do?
I always try to guard against that in my own work, but what I realized was that I had two characters whose names didn’t sound the same, but they looked similar written down. It’s more of a deal in book two, because one of the characters is much more prominent here than in book one.
So I took care of that—again, there are thousands upon thousands of names out there….
October 24, 2021
October 21, 2021
Progress report
I forgot to do this before, but yesterday and today I wrote 2,100 words!
What I’m realizing with this genre is that the sex basically has to be its own storyline. And then that storyline has to be incorporated into the overall story, hopefully in an interesting way. So that can be kind of challenging.
