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First draft of “Homecoming” is done!

The first draft of the story that had a working title of "Cats in the Cradle" is done. I’m now calling the story "Homecoming" and unless I come up with something better in the final draft, that will likely be the title. I did another 1,325 words this evening and overall, I’m pleased with the [...]

Good writing progress

I did a second session of writing last night where I managed another 800 words or so, making the total for yesterday 1,500 words. This evening, after word, I headed up to the office/guest room and in roughly an hour and a half, added another 1,400+ words to the story. It feels very good and [...]

Lunchtime writing–surprise!

It was my plan to read during lunch today, but the as I read, I kept thinkingabout one of the stories I’ve been working on. Often times, I jot down a note or two and come back to the story later, but given how poor I’ve felt my writing to be lately, I thought I [...]

Cleaning day

Today was supposed to be our cleaning day, and to that end, I think we did a pretty good job.  I cleaned two of the three bathrooms today ( I would have cleaned all three but I forgot about the last one and never got back to it).  I vacuumed downstairs.  Kelly put away all of the holiday decorations [...]

Wednesday writing

I just did 656 words on "Rescue" (working title). This is the first story in the series of related stories I referred to earlier. I completed the first two scenes and more significantly, I found the voice of the story. For me, voice is an important part of the story. When I find the right [...]

Monday writing

I just completed 1,166 words of a new story, tentatively titled, "Cats in the Cradle". The imagery is not quite where I want it to be, but I managed to capture the general gist of the first two scenes (out of 10) and I can work things out better in the next draft once I’ve [...]

Novel trouble

I’ve been having trouble with the novel and that has made me rethink what I am trying to do.  The fact is that I appear to be (at this stage of my skill level) unable to write a great length.  Moreover, I am such an ardent fan of the art of the short story, that it seems [...]

Friday writing

Just completed about 250 words of the novel. Not much, but better than nothing. I didn’t feel quiet as into the story as I did last week, but I think it was just the difficulty of this scene. It can use work, but I’ll clean it up in a later draft. For now, I just [...]

New Year’s Day

We had a quiet day yesterday.  It was cold in the metro D.C. area, with temperatures in the 20s.  We went shopping in the morning.  First to Old Navy for Kelly to get some maternity clothes, then to Target, where she got more maternity clothes, and where we picked up a few other items.  Fromthere [...]

Christmas eve-day writing

I got some writing done, sitting out on the lanai after lunch today. I did about 555 words. I decided to add a preface that sets a better overall context for the novel and that’s what I wrote today. I’m pretty happy with it. As things stand: Total words: 2,591 | This session: 555 | [...]

Writing today

I did 700 words of the first chapter of the new novel (at some point, I realize I’ll have to stop calling it the "new" novel). I did it in under 45 minutes which is a very good pace for me. Still all first draft, but I was happy with what I got done. I [...]

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