Day 16 Write-umentary

Day 16 Write-umentary

Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1215 Word challenges worked into scenes: rugose

Day 15 Write-umentary

Day 15 Write-umentary

Note: Change of plans! Instead of forcing myself to write on this project every day, I’ll be writing on this (mostly) and a few other projects as the moment suggests. So, I won’t document days that I don’t write, unless I’m focused on this one 

Day 14 Write-umentary

Day 14 Write-umentary

Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +2250 Word challenges worked into scenes: Flatulence

Day 13.5 Write-umentary

Day 13.5 Write-umentary

Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +831 Word challenges worked into scenes: Semantics

Day 12: Write-umentary

Day 12: Write-umentary

Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1985 Word challenges worked into scenes: Limned

Day 11: Write-umentary

Day 11: Write-umentary

Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +1977 Word challenges worked into scenes: Pettifogger

Day 10: Write-umetary

Day 10: Write-umetary

Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +3886 Word challenges worked into scenes: Craptastic

Day 9: Write-umentary

Day 9: Write-umentary

Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +3301 Word challenges worked into scenes: Bifurcated

Day 8: Write-umentary – one word: Epic fail (ok 2 words)

Day 8: Write-umentary – one word: Epic fail (ok 2 words)

Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +226 Word challenges worked into scenes: None! No one gave me one! Total word count to-date: 8,871 Notes: Epic fail. Epic fail. A week of getting up at 6:45 am and staying up until midnight 

Day 7: After Dark Write-umentary

Day 7: After Dark Write-umentary

Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): +2205 Word challenges worked into scenes: o knorks (

Day 6: After Dark Write-umentary

Day 6: After Dark Write-umentary

I didn’t take a break from writing, just one from writing THIS story. I did manage to piece together 2500 words in something altogether different and will not share in this blog. 🙂 Sorry!

Day 5: After Dark Write-umentary

Day 5: After Dark Write-umentary

Boo hiss. Haven’t written a single word today. Thought about it. Got distracted. Suck is life for a Monday. Back on target tomorrow … I promise … 🙂

Day 4: After Dark Write-umentary

Day 4: After Dark Write-umentary

Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): 2146 Total word count to-date: 6440 Notes: I put in 2 solid hours of writing today. Okay … wait … no. I put in one solid hour of writing, about 20 minutes of research on 

Day 3: After Dark Write-umentary

Day 3: After Dark Write-umentary

Additional word count (+/- with a few edits to previous): 1497 Total word count to-date: 4,294 Notes: I’d intended to start much earlier and to write for a few hours. Instead, I celebrated the new year by sleeping until nearly noon, watching a couple movies 

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 

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? 

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