Monday, June 9, 2008

taking over the world!

Well I was planning on posting something about the lifetime tv show ArmyWives today as you can see I haven't. I love that show! I'm so glad it started back this past sunday.
No, I'm going to post about my lastest genius plan on how I'm taking over the world! just kidding. No, it just my lastest plan on how I'm going to write more. lol. See I'm going to take over the world one word at a time!
So Fast draft has started again and I'm going for it! This is where every writer must write 20 pages a day for two weeks and then post it on the Candace Haven's yahoo group. I'm not part of a team this time so I'm just going to post what me, myself and I wrote! While it started today, I'm going to start tomorrow!
Best of Luck to all writers!
Don't forget to write today!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

lets talk feet

Here are 5 things I find funny about feet.

1. Some people don't have much of an arch in the bottom of their foot. (me for one)
2. Sometime the 2nd toe is longer then the "Big Toe." (Beware of these people they're bossy)
3. Our (women's) feet need a little paint to look good.
4. If you count your toes really fast you need up with eleven.
5. Without your "Big Toe" you lose your balance.

I posted this yesterday but I forgot to ask:

What do you find funny about feet?

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

watching

Who’s watching you? Or more to the point who are you watching? I don’t know about other writers but I like to people watch. Some people favorite hobby is bird watching mine are writing and people watching. When I lived in the dorms my room was on the 2nd floor. I would sit in the window, must to college staff dismay, and watch people walk across the small quad next to my dorm.
Our campus is known for its brick sidewalk and roads. The quad has a small slop and its brick paths formed a star like pattern with a small flower garden in the middle. Not many flowers grew there since everyone going to the cafeteria walked through it. I liked to watch people walk down the slop, to see how their walk change once they reached that point. The funniest times were when some of the girls from the other girl’s dorm would try to walk in heels down that sideway made of brick. Their walk would change trying to balance on these pencil thin heels. I never saw anyone fall but a few almost trips. I think how we walk is one of our most interesting habits.
When a writer tells how their characters walk it tell all about their personality.
As a writer what habits do you often put in your story?
If you like to watch people what habit do you watch or watch for?

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

pulling weeds

Lately I feel like I'm pulling weeds when I'm trying to write. It don't help that my grandmother in the hospital. She's ok, slowly getting better. So I'm back to writing in my notebook. Easier to carry to the hospital. So it going to take a little longer to write my lengthy outline. So how everyone else doing with their writing?

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Lengthy outline

I have decide that I will finish what I now call my lengthy outline by June 15th. I hope to have an idea what going to happen through out Keep Faith by that point. I plan to have write a outline of about 30,ooo+ words for an 75000 length novel. This mean I need to write about 1000 words a day.
Right now I'm working toward the "New Situation" part of the outline plot. I just need to write a few more scenes and then I start to create obstacles for my hero and heroine to over come until I get to the "point of no return." lol have no clue what these obstacles are but hopefully I come up with something.

So that my writing plan for now

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

run for your lives!

Thank you Amanda for posting about sprint writing! I wrote 1020 words tonight!
Anyway here an update

Title:Keep Faith
New words: 1020
How many people ran off today: 2. Will and Mary are running for thier lives well at least for his.
Mary: Is helping Will escape.
Will: Wondering how he got stuck with the crazy woman.
sample:
“Woman! What are you doing?” he asked. She didn’t answer instead she moved her arms in a movement that told him to hurry back through the window. Once he climbed through, she ran back across the court yard. He decided to follow but he had a lot of questions.

Sprint Writing!

Well this greenhorn at sprint writing finally wrote with some ladies from endurance writing group at Yahoo. I only wrote with them for 30 minutes since I joined the chat late last night but I wrote 490 words.
A few things I discovered while writing.
1. This story is a YA novel.
2. The bad guy of the scene think the heroine is dumb.