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ROW80 Update 2/18/15

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on February 18, 2015| 14 Comments »

It’s snowing! It’s very powdery, so I don’t know if it will stick to the roads or not. I’m keeping an eye on it so I’ll know if I need to leave work.

I’ve been very productive the last few days. After I finally faced the fact that my story wanted to be a novella instead of a novel made things easier for me. As I said on Facebook the other day, I’m tired of trying to force a story to be longer when it doesn’t want to be. So when my stories want to be novellas, they will be, and when they want to be novels, they will be. It feels so liberating!

I’ve also been dealing with sadness. My fifteen-year-old dog died yesterday. One day, he just walked into the garage, lay down, and didn’t get back up. We’ve been cleaning him up every day since he couldn’t walk anymore to go do his business, but he was eating okay. Then he stopped eating, but kept drinking water. Day before yesterday, he couldn’t even lift his head. He was very old, deaf, and arthritic. It was time for him to stop hurting. I’m going to miss him very much, but his misery is over.

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ROW80 Update 2/11/15

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 11, 2015| 5 Comments »

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I’m sick again. This is the second time this year. I wish all this stuff going around would stop! I hope it’s not the flu. Anyway, I’ve been fairly productive the last two days. I have a word quota of 12,500 per month, which is 150,000 for the year. I think that’s pretty reasonable for someone with a full time job. I’m behind for February, partly because I was working on proofreading a couple of things. But my daily quota is fairly low, so I think I can catch up. I was a little over my January quota, so I think I’m mostly on track for the year. Having that yearly word count goal will make me have to be working on something almost all the time. I need to do that to be productive. The more books I publish a year, the better off I am, financially. I SO want to write full time.

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ROW80 Update 2/1/15

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on February 1, 2015| 8 Comments »

Duke - 8 or 9 months old

Duke – 8 or 9 months old

Since Facebook no longer seems to pick up pictures from WordPress blogs unless it’s in that post, I thought I would provide a picture so it would show up. And what better picture than a happy dog, right? This was taken a couple of years ago, I think. The caption was already on there when I found it on my computer.

Where did January go???

There’s been progress. I got the manuscript written with my other pen name off to the publisher. I’m beta reading right now for a friend, and I have a couple of small things to proofread. I plan on picking back up on a mystery I started awhile back before I stopped to do this last novella. I should be able to get that done by the end of March. Then it’s on to a story for another anthology.

I have another Lauralynn book I need to get done before the end of the year. I’m probably going to write a sequel to Soul of a Vampire. It will revolve around a different character, the best friend of the “shero” in SoaV.

I’m really trying to be more productive this year. So far, it’s going well. I have a goal of 150,000 words this year. I made my January goal. I’m using my nifty Supernatural spreadsheet to keep up with my monthly and yearly words. 🙂

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