WiP Wednesday and the Return of Kirby

WiP Wednesday and the Return of Kirby

The Other Sense of the Word
Tracy Marchini did a fantastic post the other day about using more than just sight to describe things in a novel. It struck a chord with me, and I thought I'd add my own thoughts to the mix.I'll admit right off that I'm guilty of using only sight to describe and neglecting the rest of the descriptive arsenal. But there are, after all, four other senses: smell, touch, taste, and hearing. As writers (unless, of course, we write screenplays that actually get turned into tv shows or movies) we don't have the advantage of actually being able to show

Dictionary Size
Hey, lookit that. I woke up this morning and my leg is fine again. Guess it just needed a day of rest. Thanks for all the well-wishes, everyone. :)I have family coming into town today (they left at about six in the morning EST, should be here later this afternoon), and they're going to be here for a week. I'm going to try and post every day, but I don't know if I'll be able to. Plus I'm behind in NaNo (well, by MY word count goals, anyway), so I'm going to try and step it up in this last week, here. Just a heads up.Today I'd like to throw out a little something-something that I've been thinking about lately: word count.I love long books, don't get me wron

My Leg. It is Injured.
Okay, like, I was totally going to post last night. But then, during an extremely upsetting Supernatural (I bawled like a freaking baby. A baby, I tell you!), I tripped while stomping down the hallway to yell at my brothers to shut the hell up because I was trying to watch my show. And I busted up my leg. I only just recently regained the ability to walk without enduring much pain. I'm getting a crutch tomorrow, since I'm still limping a bit, but all is well.Anyway, tonight I don't really have a post for you. I'm trying to get in some writing (since I didn't get anything done yesterday due to the craziness), and I still have some blog reading and stuff to do. Sorry for the lack

Tired Beast
It's Wednesday, which means that it's time for an installment of Work in Progress Wednesday!While it is indeed true that I was tearing it up for awhile at the start of the month and it is true that I was a bit of a beast with the word count thing, the fact remains that this past week I haven't written crap. I've averaged maybe a couple hundred words a day. I'm tired. Tiiii

The End
It feels good to finish a project and type THE END, those two words that wrap it up nicely and tie it up with a bow. To know that, hey, you wrote something and it didn't kill you or end the world...that's a nice feeling.But guess what?You're not done.Not by a long shot.You may be finished with the first draft. Or, if you're like me, you may be finished with the only draft, but fully intend to go back and edit it until it begs for mercy (I hate writing multiple drafts--I prefer multiple rounds of edits instead). But there's still revisions, editing, rounds with the crit groups and betas, more revisions, more beta rounds, more editi