It's my final milestone of Operation 50/50. For the last 50 days, I've been trying to tackle a scene a day. The reason? I want to get my work-in-progress in a polished draft form for my critique partners and betas plus make my goal of a finished novel in 2011. The whole goal was to give myself some type of structure without the added pressure of stressing myself out. As some of you already know, my day job can be sometimes very demanding, so I already knew that some of my days would not be … [Read more...]

It’s my sixth milestone of my Operation 50/50. I'm still working on this 50 scenes in 50 days thing. Writing scenes are no joke people. Ha. So for those of you following these shenanigans, you know that I had to rewrite my ending, which means most of the remaining scenes are all new. So although I did have the plot outline of how all this was supposed to go down, I found that it was easier in outline form than in actual scene form. Go figure. I had my BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZA this … [Read more...]

It's my fifth milestone of my Operation 50/50. It's really going by fast! Only two more weeks to go. I'm seeing a sliver of light in my tunnel where I'm still tackling 50 scenes in 50 days. At least in theory anyway, ha. This past week? Sigh. Just a little shade of crazy. Worked three 14-hour days in a row trying to get a software project finished and I was working on about 4-5 hours of sleep. So this week's scenes suffered a bit. But then I remember this was NOT a stressful writing … [Read more...]

I’ve come to my fourth milestone of Operation 50/50 where I tackle 50 scenes in 50 days. Yeah, baby! Uh-uh. It's a little past the half-way mark and this is where things get interesting because most of the remaining scenes revolve around a new ending since my characters decided that they wanted a different one. As if the one I had *already* written for them wasn't good enough. After being in denial most of January, I decided that they were right and brainstormed a new outline for the … [Read more...]