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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…

As I’ve been writing this book, names for characters have mostly popped into my head – I only named the main characters before I started in on things. I am now 28,022 words into the book, so the characters have some details around them, and in my head their names are their names. But I…

I’m having a hard time writing tonight, for the first time. I have a headache, born of poor sleep (the dog is not feeling well, and needs to be let out when I need to be sleeping) and too much time on a laptop today. My day job requires a lot of time on a…

So I’m writing a romance novel. There’s really no question, this is not going to be the next Great American Novel, nor is it going to revolutionize the industry and make a zillion dollars. It’s just a light-hearted romance, between two characters that I’m writing to keep my own attention while I’m spending all this…

I started this blog just a few days after I started my book. I did it because I read several articles about self publishing and they all said, be sure you have a website and way to capture an email list (I’ll add that mailing list item later.) I figured, having an established blog with…

So the company I work for recently had us “return to the workplace” now that the global pandemic is trending towards becoming endemic and vaccines are readily available here. And today something inevitable happened. I came home to find a piece of green spinach in my front teeth. Must have been there since lunch. Terrific.

As of right now, I’ve written the first 7863 words of my first book. Probably there are 200 good ones so far.