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Today I learned of a playlist on Spotify called “Brown Noise”, which is like white noise but only in lower frequencies. I think I like it. I’m not sure yet. 25,000

So the type of writing that I am doing is called “discovery writing.” I have a set of characters in mind, and a setting, and a general idea of where I am headed – but then I just sit down and start writing. Sometimes the characters surprise me, and I have to go back and…

I’ve mentioned before that I have to set goals for myself to stay on track with the writing. Typically, if I can focus on the work, I can get two hours of writing in between dinner and bedtime. This week my real job required my attention in the evenings, though, so there just wasn’t much…

I finished the first draft of the book. I likely rushed through some bits near the end, and I need to go back and refactor two pieces to add more depth to characters that were throwaway at first, but developed their own plot points as things evolved. I’d always assumed that I’d go straight into…

This weekend started out normally, but on Saturday night I was suddenly no longer in control of my nose. It had developed a demonic personality, streaming despite the large amounts of allergy medicine I had taken. Since we are still (still) in the middle of a global pandemic that starts off masquerading as a cold,…

This is a song title in my book. That is all, other than I hit 51,000 words.

OK, I failed to hit my word count today, due to having to work late on my paying job, plus running on too little sleep. But here are two things I want to remind people of later, and I am going to tell them – I even put it on my blog before I finished…

I imagine most first novels are written by people who are holding down full-time jobs (and second novels, and third novels.) And I know that I am lucky to have a job that doesn’t exhaust me – I’ve had times in my career where I was incapable of using the evening hours for anything other…

Today I hit 40,000 words, which I think of as a bit of milestone, so I’m pleased. But I’m also writing my book start-to-finish. I don’t skip around between scenes, I just started on page one and wrote until this point. I’ve only done some minimal refactoring, like when I realized I was spending too…

I missed my target word count for the first time yesterday. I have a full-time job, so all writing is done in the evenings after dinner, or on weekends. But last night I had to take the dog to an urgent care appointment instead, because she was definitely one unhappy dog. She showed all the…