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Almost there on 7-Day Crash-Revision Workshop #wabwm

Still scrambling to get the 7-Day Crash-Revision Workshop done and up. About there.

Have done a bunch of words over the weekend, but these don’t count. Looking forward to getting back to Create A World Clinic.

Weekend “Write A Book With Me” Feb 1-3

Margaret and I are doing the push to finish testing on the classroom; no words yesterday, won’t be any today or tomorrow. We’re close to done, but not there yet.

Hope you’re getting lots, though. And good ones, too.

World Clinic goal today, 1000 words #wabwm

No World Clinic words yesterday, for reasons noted in the previous post.

Goal today, 1000.

Happy writing.

Waylaid by Downton Abbey #wabwm

The work I got on World Clinic yesterday, all 2487 words of it , will have to suffice for today as well.

The third series of Downton Abbey came out yesterday. Matt and I had discovered the show right after the new year, and had already been through the first two series (twice) since then. So yesterday after I finished work, we ran some necessary errands, then went to Best Buy and picked up Series 3.

And sat up ALL night, finishing one episode, me saying “Next,” Matt saying “You sure?” and us going to the next until he finally stopped asking and we just watched the whole thing. We finished at 5 AM.

Considering that I’d gotten up with the alarm at 6 AM the day before that made for a long day. So I decided to turn the alarm off (me getting into bed at 5:30, and it set to go off at 6). Slept until I woke up at 11 AM, starting work at noon.

I’ll go straight into site work and getting 7-Day Crash Revision Workshop finished.

Goal today? Get to bed early tonight so I can get words tomorrow.

But it was worth it.

Hit the Line World, happily #wabwm

Yesterday, got 1296 words, split between worksheets and book text, on Create A World Clinic, and I’m now digging into the Line World.

I came up with a second “Instant World” demo technique for this, and today will be working out my actual demo. My Muse LOVES demos, because it means we get to write fiction and nonfiction at the same time.

Also got about 1500 words on the revision, update, and worksheets for 7-Day Crash Revision. I think I’m through the with the updates on that.

Goal today, 1000 or better. You?

Onward.

Today I start the Line World section of Create A World Clinic #wabwm

Starting with 11,271 words, including worksheets. Goal today is 1500 words, and the demo of how to build a line world.

Once I get those, I need to push toward completion on the Updated and Revised 7-Day Crash Revision Workshop.

How about you?

Pushing for the Line World on Create A World Clinic #wabwm

I got a lot done on the WHY of the Dot World yesterday. I’m excited about the way this is coming together, and I think the fact that a writer can generate a complete Dot World for any genre or idea in about five minutes, and start writing the story immediately thereafter, will help writers get better stories with a lot less frustration.

I’d love to have it wrapped up today, so that Monday I can start on the Line world.

Goal for today, 1000 words.

A Teaser Snippet from Create A World Clinic

This is a bit of fiction that was supposed to have been a two-paragraph demo I was doing on WHY you build Dot world—but that exploded into a complete scene. And the start of a SECOND short story I want to write.

Katie was walking along the path back to her dorm, kicking the gravel in her frustration, when something went “clink.”

Dusk was falling, and she was tired, but that had been a heavy clink—an expensive clink. She had a ton of trigonometry waiting on the third floor, and a miserable hockey practice behind her, and the idea of something interesting between those two grim bookends of time sounded good.

She walked to where she’d thought she heard the metal sound, and crouched, and looked around. It was too dark to see clearly, but she had a little flashlight on her keychain. She pulled it out, flicked it over the gravel, and something sparkled red at her.

Red. And gold. She picked it up. It was a ring, and looked as expensive as it had sounded. It was big and heavy enough to be a large man’s class ring, but first, it was sized to fit a woman’s finger, and second, it had nothing to do with higher education. The red stone formed the single, centered, enormous eye in an incredibly detailed face distorted by pain and rage. She stared at that face, shining her flashlight over what was undeniably beautiful craftsmanship twisted to a hideous end.

When she looked at the eye,it seemed to look back at her. To make promises. She felt vengeance, she felt rage, she felt death and towering stacks of corpses and, and at the same time felt, racing beneath her skin, the hunger to bring pain and ruin, along with a triumphant thread of mad jubilation, berserk and bloody glee. With a single disgusted overhand movement, she flung the ring across the green and walked away.

In the history of the ring, she was the first person who’d touched it who hadn’t put it on.

The next person who touched it would.

Working on my focus with World Clinic #wabwm

Had a couple of weeks where I took off, then lost my focus when I got back. Yesterday, I finally got my feet under myself, and today I want to continue that.

Objective, 1000 words on World Clinic. And then the rest of the stuff. At this point I’m playing catch-up with getting old courses back online, plus putting the new versions of HTTS and 7-Day Crash Revision into the new system, so I haven’t even been able to TOUCH my eventual work schedule.

But for now, I’m just working my list of to-dos, and putting the writing first.

World Clinic: 7833 words and counting #wabwm

Going to be quick here. I have 3220 words done on World Clinic, and want to get a thousand more today.

Onward. Good luck with your words.