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Editing Cessation

Editing of Cessation is going well. Slow, but all right. Worst part of editing for me I think is this one. Inputting the edits from the paper file to the digital. Lots of work. Slow going. I tend to get bored and want to wander during this phase.

Here is a snippet of the area I’m working on.

Silence settled in.

Deep, still, the silence of lives changing.

Of reality hitting home. This was really happening.

Just yesterday it seemed they were planning their child’s birthday, or a friend’s weddin...

Began again

Okay! Finally back to it. Blogging, that is.I’ve had to take two weeks or whatever it was off because of something that came up. I was beyond tired and didn’t want to deal with blogging my word count, or discussing the book while I was incredibly tired.

Below is stillUnder Empty Stars for now. I finished the book last week so I’m leaving it up today, maybe tomorrow too, then taking it down soon.

I started the third book in myEnchanting the Moonseries. This is a branch off myDark Moon Dynasty...

Where will it end

I’m at 61 thousand + words and I feel like there is much more to tell. I’m very curious if I’ll be able to complete this book, or it’ll keep going. I think I can, but it may end up being a lot longer than normal. I could well go to the 100K mark, just trying to complete all the different POV’s that are in this story.

I keep switching between nearly every single character I’ve mentioned (who is still alive) from this series. Challenging, but loads of fun.

Word count I started Fridaywith:59,...

Just words

Late so just word count

Word count I started Fridaywith:57,681 Word count I ended Monday with:59,509 Total for the day: 1,828 words

Question of the Day:
Describe your perfect house. Use images if you like.

*the image used as a thumbnail represents a scene written today.

Eet’s meh 36th birthday

I’m so wiped. Had a tummy ache today this morning, which is always exhausting. On top of that, I’ve been trying to build a tall arbor for a climbing rose, not a wide one, so I’ve been digging posts a lot. Well, it’s one post, but I’ve had to dig multiple holes for it, haha. At first my idea was to use the post as a placement for the trellis, but then I realized that the end of the porch there is at a sort of angle. So when I make it straight out from the porch, it looked wonky.

Then I used th...

So much going on today

Too much going on. Just word count.

Word count I started Fridaywith:53,266 Word count I ended Monday with:55,761 Total for the day: 2,495words

Question of the Day:
What are your favorite toppings for asandwich?

*the image used as a thumbnail represents a scene written today.

Over halfway with AS

I am now overhalfwaythrough editingAncient Scars.

I workedin the yard this morning so I already feel wiped out and it’s only 1:30 pm. I’ve been cleaning up a corner where old lumber had gathered. The wood made a cave that the rats enjoyed bedding up in.

Construction and who knows what else brought the rats into the neighborhood and now it’s amazing if we’d ever stop seeing them. It was never like this before. But now they come and go, and it’s nearly impossible to have things in the yard (pla...

Love it

Got a full hour of writing in for a change,so my word count is incredibly nice. I’m liking it. Only just now got the dark wifi back on, so I’m only making this a word count, and the Question of the Day.

Word count I started Fridaywith:48,882 Word count I ended Monday with:51,189 Total for the day: 2,307 words

Question of the Day:
How did the invention of television change people’s life?
* Do you think it is a useful invention?
* What is the role of television in your life?
* How ofte...

Good amount of words

New planet, new things to explore. Well the planet isn’t new to us, since it’s Earth as we know it (though in the future), but my character Ellie has never been to Earth. She was born on Eli’ane, which is much like Mars to us in many ways.

I get to find the balance between describing what the reader already knows is true, versus what is new to the character. Also, the Earth in this book is much longer into the future than we are at here, but the house that they are about to meet up in is old...

Gush fest

Didn’t post this on Friday. I was tired,and had been printing outUnder Empty Stars(166 pages!) as well as getting my newsletter ready, so I was a bit tired. Today was an emotional day of writing. Had to keep taking a deep breath so I could focus and not start crying along with Ellie, haha. I’ll be glad when these few scenes play out and we can get past the gushiness.

I’ll do the word count today for both days. Friday and today.

Also, I got Bittersweet Reality up for sale. I’ll be updating the...