Month: December 2010

Day 2: After Dark “Write-umentary”

Day 2: After Dark “Write-umentary”

Word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): 1,131 Total word count to-date: 2,711 Stress level at completion: None! Though I do wish I’d accomplished more. I was highly but happily interrupted at home. Time allotted to writing: Hit or miss for 2 hours 

Day 1: After Dark “Write-umentary”

Day 1: After Dark “Write-umentary”

Ah… I couldn’t resist, but started 1 day early. 🙂 Word count: 1,544 Stress level at completion: way low …. good writing’ time to begin Chapter 1! Time allotted to writing: Dunno. Hit or miss for 2 hours ish Completed: Chapter 1, Scene 1. Favorite 

Follow my writing progress!

Follow my writing progress!

My goal … as I write the Choice Trilogy, is to document my writing process down to the minute detail. Why? Oh … for fun. 🙂 Actually, I want to see what it takes for me to write three stories-that-are-really-one and to plow through with 

A Merry THANK-YOU to my friends …

A Merry THANK-YOU to my friends …

Many people talk about how writing is a very personal, individual and isolated activity. It keeps them rooted to a laptop, in a world created on their own. A place without the input or camaraderie that comes with team sports or even working in a 

My first trilogy with sequels

My first trilogy with sequels

I have to admit that under my other pen name, all my stories are series of three — so trilogies. The difference between this me and my other me is that Emi Gayle stories are coming out as sequels instead of series. What’s the difference? 

One ‘beauty’ of the YA genre?

One ‘beauty’ of the YA genre?

Word count. Not sure what that means? Word count refers to the number of words in a novel. Under my adult pen name, I write 80,000 – 100,000 words in per novel. For my YA stories, I shoot for 70,000- 80,000. No matter the story, 

Early Synopsis : After Dark

Early Synopsis : After Dark

I said on 12/3 that I’d post my synopsis — the complete work that came to me in a drive-thru line while waiting for my milkshake (one which was delicious, by the way). Keep in mind that my early synopses don’t always finish out as 

Working on a new novel already :)

Working on a new novel already :)

It’s percolating. That’s what I’m calling ‘working’ in this case. 🙂 In the drive through at Chick-Fil-A the other night, I was looking out through the windshield of my mini-van with my girls in the back singing songs and I remembered a quote that my