I've been doing some writing for Happy Camp News and must keep a copy of this front page before I add the next article.
Also, a few days ago I finally wrote an article I want to submit to Vision - an ezine for writers. I've been wanting to do this for a long time but it took this long for something half-way inspired to pour out of my pen.
I took a walk today, came home and took a shower, and thought up some great bits of conversation for the second part of my current novel. While out walking I had a terrorizing experience with a pack of dogs and plan to write that into my novel too. Yeah, what doesn't kill you, you can write about later. So its been a great writing day. You all take care now, ya hear?
I've been writing the first draft of Perfection and am midway through chapter four now - but tonight found more research materials online and decided to make a calendar to organize the plot better. I make my calendars with HTML... like a web page that never leaves my computer. It's a great way to make sure the plot matches the seasons and passage of time.
Our electricity was out for a few days due to excess snow. There's only a foot of snow here, but we're in a river valley and all around us are mountains. Whenever it snows we can count on long power outages.
Here's the scene:
The cat's name is Mocha.
Right before the storm I got my order from Amazon. I got Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass and the workbook that goes with it. I haven't been able to put it down! Great writing book! I also got a used copy of Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction by David Michael Kaplan. I've read the intro and first chapter and like that one a lot too! At least while the power was out I had a couple good books to read.
