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WAVERLEY

The Summer Update Post

August 15, 2011 Life

I’ve been quiet lately, both on the blog and also out and about in the blog world and on Twitter. But there’s been a lot of stuff happening here over the summer!
The publishing industry is definitely getting back to speed – and from my perspective, it’s not just back on track after a couple of [...]

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NaNoWriMo the Longhand Way

October 15, 2010 Writing

I’ve been thinking about doing NaNoWriMo a little differently this year.
I recently stumbled on this post on Neil Gaiman’s blog from back in 2007, when he was in the middle of writing The Graveyard Book (I got there, as usual, by some convoluted route while I was procrastinating. It’s how I find most of the [...]

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Where My WIP Went Wrong

June 6, 2010 Writing

I’m working on a new WIP right now, another children’s fantasy.
But some of you may have been wondering what happened with my NaNoWriMo novel, WAVERLEY.
I’d been wondering myself. To recap, I wrote 50,000 plus words of it during November, 2009.
Then I stopped writing. Something just wasn’t working.
In desperation, I even went as far as to [...]

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Bad Guys and Villains

March 17, 2010 Writing

Have you noticed? I haven’t talked much about my WIP, WAVERLEY, after having to cut 33,000 plus words from it early last month.
That’s because I felt kind of numb.
I didn’t really know how to begin again.
So I did what I now do when I’m not sure what to do. I let it go. I decided [...]

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“Snip” – And There Go 33,000 Words …

February 4, 2010 Writing

Ouch.
I did my readthrough of WAVERLEY yesterday. I wasn’t entranced by the opening chapter, which will need a thorough re-write and in-depth trimming.
The rest of the beginning chapters were good for a first draft. I even had some nice character building going on. It was all a fairly good match to the movie that’s been [...]

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Writing Update: WAVERLEY and NANTUCKET

February 3, 2010 Writing

It has been a very long while since I last sat down to work on WAVERLEY, my current WIP. First it was the workload over the holidays – I tried, but I just didn’t have the energy to write on top of meeting all those deadlines.
Then, during the past three weeks (my recuperation phase, as [...]

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Enter: Marcus

December 17, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

Thank you so much to everyone who commented on my 20 minute writing commitment post. I felt so inspired after reading all of your comments – and suddenly, it really did feel very much like “it’s only 20 minutes”.
So I took roughly 20 minutes today to work on Waverley; I am now 1200 more words [...]

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NaNoWriMo: Winner!!

November 30, 2009 Writing

I did it! I won NaNoWriMo this year!
According to the word validator, my official final word count is 51,070 words. But that includes my chapter titles, and according to my writing software, my real word count is 50,774 words.
I really wanted to do this – I felt such determination on Saturday when I woke up [...]

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A Book Diary for WAVERLEY

November 19, 2009 Writing

I have a confession to make.
I’ve never been any good at keeping a regular journal. Not that I haven’t tried. When I was in grade school, some well-meaning person gave me one of those small five-year diaries, the kind that has two cute little keys and a lock. I found it quite intriguing, and in [...]

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NaNoWriMo Update (Day 6)

November 6, 2009 Books and Reading

Today’s word count: 5,553 words
Total word count to date: 14,668 words
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I didn’t write at all yesterday, so when I woke up today, I was determined to sit myself down and put my fingers to the keyboard.
You wouldn’t think indexing a book is particularly strenuous work, but I always find myself feeling pretty drained after I [...]

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NaNoWriMo, Day 2

November 2, 2009 Writing

Today’s word count: 5,240 words
Total words to date: 5,240 words
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This is my first NaNoWriMo update. Yesterday, the starting line for NaNoWriMo, turned out to be a big “0” for me. I wasn’t feeling well all day, and didn’t even make it to my computer, much less my writing program.
The day wasn’t a total loss, though. [...]

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