NaNoWriMo: Day 20
Hello All! Well, I’m 1/3 of the way through the month. I haven’t finished my writing for tonight, but so far I’m at 27,274 words which is a little ahead but I want to get two or three days ahead because I won’t be at home for the last couple days of November. The story […]
NaNoWriMo: Day 16
Well, it’s Day 16 … and I’ve run across a problem. I knew that my outline wasn’t complete! There’s a character in Ivy Inquisitive whose mother dies … and somehow she needs to feel as if her mother’s death was her fault and stew over it for the rest of her life. I have literally been […]
NaNoWriMo: Day 14
Hello Everyone! It’s a cloudy but beautiful (due to the orange, yellow, and red trees and suddenly bright green grass) in Oregon! 🙂 November may sound gloomy to some, but it’s quite perky here, especially when the deep blue sky peeps through … not yet today, but we must be hopeful. So, I’m up to 17,469 as […]
NaNoWriMo: Day 11
Hi y’all! I know I haven’t posted in a long, long, long, long time, but I’ve been super busy. And had nothing at all to say. Well, I’ve currently written 15,044 words. That’s nine chapters. I’m not very far into the book either, plot-wise … so I imagine this is going to be a pretty […]
Christianity in The Dressmaker’s Secret
“If it’s at all possible, Lord Jesus, couldn’t you have Mummy tell me something – anything – about my father?” The first draft of The Dressmaker’s Secret contained almost no mentions of God … which is pretty lame consider the fact that I decided when I started writing novels that I was going to do […]
Those Unneccessary Characters ….
When you write a book, you’ll like as not create several characters that are just unnecessary to the plot. You’ll put a lot into them; developing backstories, personalities, pages and pages of hard work. And then … you’ll find that those characters are more hinder than a help to your novel! I had several of these […]