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ROW80 Update 3/8/15

March 8, 2015 by Lauralynn Elliott

You know, I used to blog all the time. Fun posts. Interesting posts. Now, it seems all I do is ROW80 updates. Not that those aren’t important! They are. But if that’s all I blog about, then I’m reaching only authors and not non-author readers. I need to change that. I don’t know what happened along the way to make me stop. Probably just too much stuff to do and not enough time. Hopefully, the full time job will slow down a bit in the next week or two.

Now…about that ROW80 update. I haven’t written any words yet, except for edits on my mystery. I just finished that, and I need to get it to beta readers. (I haven’t asked any of them yet.) I had a name picked out for my little town, but unfortunately, Kait found a series by the same name (Pine Hollow). And I want this to be a series about this town. I would LOVE to hear some ideas for a small town name. Throw some at me! Even if you want to be silly and give me goofy names, it will still be fun. 🙂 I should have had this name decided before I started writing, but it just wouldn’t come to me, and I didn’t want my zeal for the story to run out while I was piddling around thinking of a name.

Hopefully, when I get the proofreading jobs done, I can get back to some serious word count on my WIP.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beta readers, editing, mystery novella, ROW80, word count, writing | 11 Comments

11 Responses

on March 8, 2015 at 5:24 pm | Reply busy lady

How about Little Hollow Town
- on March 8, 2015 at 5:38 pm | Reply Lauralynn Elliott
  
  Not bad! 🙂
  - on March 8, 2015 at 5:39 pm | Reply busy lady
    
    Hope you find the just right one!
on March 8, 2015 at 7:33 pm | Reply Ruth Ann Nordin

Twin Peaks. Just kidding. I know that one is taken. 😛

Here are some off to the top of my head: Cotton Wood, Cedar Ridge, Lone Pine, Oak Bluff, Chestnut Valley, Thorn Ridge, Royal Oaks, Friendship Oak, or Snowy Pines.
- on March 8, 2015 at 8:05 pm | Reply Lauralynn Elliott
  
  I loved that show! 🙂
  
  Those are good ones, too. I also thought of Twisted Pines, Leaning Pines, Crooked Pines. I mentioned Sappy Pines to some people as a joke, but apparently it wasn’t as funny as I thought it was.
on March 9, 2015 at 12:24 pm | Reply Fallon

I have trouble coming up with things to blog about other than my RoW80 updates as well. Never quite sure what to write about though.

Good job on getting your edits done, and I hope you can settle on a name for your town.
- on March 9, 2015 at 1:58 pm | Reply Lauralynn Elliott
  
  I used to blog a lot. I don’t know why I can’t get good ideas anymore. I just hope that doesn’t happen with my fiction!
  
  I’ve got a few ideas about the town, I just need to research them and make sure they aren’t used in a series since the town name might be in the series name.
on March 10, 2015 at 2:59 pm | Reply Cindy

Here are a couple that might spark something: West Brook, Kill Deer, Mercy Haven, or Miller’s Crossing.

I hear ya on the getting back into the swing of things. Directing a show is almost a full time job. I love it, but the last two week I didn’t do much writing.

Have a stellar week! 🙂
- on March 10, 2015 at 4:15 pm | Reply Lauralynn Elliott
  
  Thanks, Cindy! 🙂
on March 10, 2015 at 3:38 pm | Reply Emma

Sleepy Hollow was the first to spring to mind. 🙂
Falls Hollow, Pine Falls.
- on March 10, 2015 at 4:16 pm | Reply Lauralynn Elliott
  
  You’re as bad as Ruth with her Twin Peaks. 😛
  
  Thanks for the suggestions.