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Progress Check
Oops. Wrote the post, forgot to post it…. Let’s go back in time to last Friday: Pretty successful on the goals this week. I finished chapter 7. It’s a short chapter, but one of my notes had been that the chapters were a bit long in general, so I guess it’s fine. I started working…
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Writing Playlists
I have a different, slightly more cheerful playlist for my WIP on Apple Music, but most of the time it’s a Dark and Stormy playlist from Spotify. 1) 100 songs described as “Beautifully dark, dramatic tracks” that runs for 6.75 hours, curated by Spotify 2) 31 songs (2hrs) collected by hoops2400. It’s a little Hozier-heavy,…
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Tarot Tuesday
This deck is just lovely. It has artistic pen-and-ink/watercolor style images on antiqued cards. They are the narrowest and thinnest cards I have so far, which makes them the only ones that I can shuffle like traditional playing cards (I’ve never been good at that). One of the coolest things about the deck is that…
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Weekly Goals
So, very randomly, I hit 70,000 words over the weekend. I have not reread it, so there is a good chance that none of it makes sense, and most of it is people standing around talking. But. All writing counts. I’m definitely in a place where I can see a lot more of what needs…
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Progress Check
New word total: 68,379I’ve got about three pages left in the new chapter 6, and then I’m pretty sure that there’s going to be a new chapter 7 before the events of the old chapter 6. I’m still struggling a little with getting that direct conflict in there… my characters are feeling a little nonconfrontational…
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Tarot Tuesday
This morning, I asked the cards how I could best prepare for my son’s first swim meet, and the Fool jumped out during the shuffle. That definitely sums up how I’m feeling about this whole endeavor. The Fool is a card of optimism, new beginnings, innocence, and beginner’s luck. All of which we could use…
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Weekly Goals
I’ve reached the point of procrastinating that all I have left is new content 😬 Chapters 1-5 are as done as they’re likely to get on this pass. Chapter 6 needs a ton of work, but that revision is almost entirely dependent on the nonexistent new content that needs go between 5 and 6. So,…
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Progress Check
It’s important to note that the day’s not over yet, and I have some more writing time planned this afternoon. That said, although I don’t have a new chapter done, I did make significant revisions to chapters 3-5 this week. I finished the new chapter 5 at swim practice this morning. Lots and lots of…
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Weekly Goals
Last week’s goals were clearly overly optimistic. This week I want to move my story forward by one chapter. That might mean revising chapter 4 again. That might mean writing an entirely new chapter to replace chapter 4. That might mean picking up somewhere else in the plot and writing something there. There’s still just…
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Progress Check
Yeah, so. Remember that thing about how I was going to give myself grace? Got through another round of revisions on Chapt 1-3 and then crashed and burned. I did listen to some podcasts about second drafts and revising in general, and I may just skip ahead and rewrite the end instead of going chronologically.…
Jenn Lessmann 