Shannon

So I’m an introvert, I guess; I didn’t in the past put a label on it, but I’ve read enough about other people getting drained by social stuff and replenished by time alone and thought, Yeah, that’s me, that “introvert” seems to be a pretty good description of me. I like spending time with friends: […]

I made very nice progress on my Hobgoblin edits today…incorporated the scene I wrote in Seattle, made little adjustments downstream, then moved forward. I’m 25 pages from the end of the book–so close! I have to make myself not rush at this point. This is the part of the book Not To Rush. I also

I went to Seattle and I came home from Seattle. And in between I was in Seattle. (oh gosh, can you tell I’m sleepy?) I ended up staying longer than planned today; I like to leave mid-day to beat the traffic, but as we were having breakfast mid-day, I realized that was not going to

It happened again today: the blinding flash of insight, while I was doing something else (this time it was driving): when I know OH DUH! what happens next in the book, what I was missing all along, what I have to go back and fix…I actually yelled “Duh!” out loud, and drove on, toward the

I finally finished that chapter today! It was a doozy. Then I put it aside and just now read it over, and it’s good, I’m pleased. Finally. Miss Q and I had a dinner party last night; Mark drove down from Seattle, and we had three others in. It was a very congenial group (with

Busy day today. No time for writing but I wrote anyway…got a few more pages into this chapter, and it’s going great, but it’s a big important one and lots of things happen, so it’ll be a little longer before I finish! The next few days are jammed too. I’ll see what I can do.

I didn’t get another new chapter written today. 🙂 Though I did make a very nice start in it. This one is more complicated, and longer; four things need to happen in it; thus far I’ve gotten through two of them. Though tomorrow is likely to be sort of filled with chores and whatnot; and

Okay so I actually wrote a whole fresh chapter today…didn’t just EDIT a chapter, I WROTE one. Clearly I am coming to the end of this…one more chapter to write, then two more (plus a tiny coda) to edit, and this draft of Hobgoblin is done! (and then, of course, I need to send it

I edited an entire chapter today, justlikethat. Which included writing a new opening scene for it, and then editing the rest of it. I have to be careful not to start thinking, If I can do a chapter a day, I’ll be done in four days! Because, oops, well, I already started thinking that. But

Better today, allergy-wise. A good night’s sleep helped. I had a weird thing happen in that good night’s sleep: I dreamed a proofreading dream, in which I realized that a correction I’d made in yesterday’s work was in fact incorrect, and that I should look up this particular, peculiar, obscure word. I woke up in