Writing Websites

These sites aren’t how-to-write sites or anything like that. These sites are sites I plan to utilise more of in the following year. Starting in the next few days when I begin my rewrite/editing.

http://www.synonym.com/
Plug in the word out spits the synonym or antonym or even use the site as a dictionary. It will be useful.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/
confused about nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs etc, etc. I particularly love the term “dangling modifiers” but then again my sense of humour has always been warped.

http://www.sex-lexis.com
Ever had a love scene and a word for orgasm escapes you. This site can help you “pop your cookies” in many colourful ways.

http://www.lousywriter.com/punctuation.php
this one is quite good at helping with, well, puncutation.  I should use it more.

So does anyone else have any good sites?

Oh mustn’t forget this this site
http://www.hunkwear.com/index.php

just eye candy!!  But very important for inspration. LOL

To overcome

The desire to write has to defeat many enemies.  Exhaustion, fear and a busy life.  For me my biggest enemy is a truck.

Sounds odd, but this truck causes me despair, anger, anxiety and stress.  I would happily sell it in a heartbeat, at a loss, just to get it away from us but K well he wants it to stay.  I’m despairing of this albatross that is costing us so much.

So how do you overcome the emotional side of writing?

The morning pages are going well, day 7 of writing them not always in the morning but they are done.  Today I wrote and give me another couple of days and I should have the first draft of my third book complete.  Then I will sit back and do some serious editing.

I do need though a good book on grammar.  Amazon here I come. LOL

I have finished!!

Unbelievable. After procrastinating for the past year with fears and the like I have finished my story.
Now for some major editing but woohoo it’s done. I’m so happy.
Now for the other good news I have managed to exercise twice this week and I will be adding to it tomorrow as well.
I have a Wii and the Wii fit. I love the games and come off sweating and carrying on. there are so many different things to try that it doesn’t feel like work. And most of the exercises come in game form. That I really love. I end up doing more then 30 minutes and then go onto play other games with K.  As long as the girls don’t kick me off.
I claim the Wii from 7.30 to 8 after that it is for as long as I can. LOL

PS I finished my story.

Doncha just hate

falling asleep when you were having grand ideas of writing?
I didn’t wake early and so my Morning Pages took hours to write with all the interruptions. But I plan to write tonight even if it’s only 15 minutes.

Another 250

I wrote for 25 minute as that is all the time I had. Can’t complain I know where the story is going and how it is going to end. I had started one ending but don’t want it any more so will edit it out. This way it will fit better with guidelines I am working within!
Woo hoo!

The Artists Way

I have started this again.  I think last time I tried this I stopped about about week 10.  No excuses ust stopped couldn’t deal with it.

So now I have started again.  Right at the beginning.

It was my New Years Resolution.

Well here they are

1) Complete the Artists Way course

2) Write for at least 15 minutes a day.

3) By March have completed, edited and sent off a book to a publisher.

Now this may not seem like a lot but I have to do something and I have found in the couple of days that even if I don’t want to I think it is only 15 minutes. Both times I have written more.

I have carefully organised my morings to make sure I get them done.

So as of Sunday I officially start week 1.  I have already started the morning page (MPs) and have looked ahead to next week to organise an Artist Date (AD).

Anyone else out there completed this course or who would like to?

Epiphany

Flickr – Barabeke

Well my 50kin30days was a flop. I got to 17000 words and realised I was 1/2 way through my story. Disappointed that I wouldn’t be able to make the 50k I stopped. Just didn’t want to bother. I felt a failure. How I meant to be a “real” author if I can’t do something as basic as write 50,000 words a relativel short novel?

So I tossed and turned and tried to forget it while feeling guilty the whole time. Last night a dear friend of mine pointed out that authors come in all different book shapes and sizes and snap out of it because I have been published.

She’s right you know. I have been published as an ebook and I have 3 or 4 books that I scrapped because they weren’t long enough to become a print book. But does it matter? No, the stories themselves are actually quite sound sure they need editing but that is part and parcel of learning this game.

And guess what as I look at each one I have written they are getting a little longer. I will get to my 50,000 words in one book but it will take me time to learn how. How to grow the story and I will do that one word at a time. You can’t grow if you don’t try.

So today I will go back to my book and I will write. I will write the remainder of the book. I will right the remainder of a were wolf book and I may just decided to go ahead and submit them. I can only get knocked back.

What’s worse then getting knocked back? Not trying in the first place when you want to. So 50kin30days let’s see what I can end up at in different books.

Words await

You really have to love drugs.  I mean even though I have to go in for tests due to breathing problems the words are no longer wandering over the page.  The are staying put until I deside to do something with them.

Today I wrote and wrote well for me almost 2500.  My total for 50k in 30 days is almost 13000 and I am really pretty happy with it.  t will nedd fleshing out and editing but these two characters are interesting to say the least.  They kinda like to do it where they may get caught.

He’s also cranky with her as she received roses and they weren’t from him.  His fault really you just can’t go off and not speak to a gal for over a week before she gets tired of waiting and decides to spread her wings a little.

Tsk tsk he really should learn to as before jumping to conclusions.

It is approachingmy scary part where I usually find out that I am slmost 1/2 way through a story and haven’t reached anywhere near the wor count I need to.  i think they have some thins to work through that may keep them going but I also came to the conclusion as longa s I am writing that’s the whole point isn’t it?

Just to write and write crap if you have to because you can edit crap where you can’t edit nothing.

descriptions may need to be improved and sentences dealt with,  but for now 50,000 is wheat i have in mind.  thankyou for all the well wishes I am on the mend and once we can figure out what causes these breathing hassles life will be less interrupted.

So let’s see Tarin is sleeping and Damon is watching over her.  what will he do?

Caterpillers

Well not really, but not much writing got done the last few days because of the flu.  i would be looking at the screen ad the words would turn into caterpillers and crawl around.  At least today I can do 15 minutes at a time beore this happens.

Oh by the way they are in an elevator.

he he he

Editing

I don’t edit as I type generally as a rule.  But also generally as a rule I don’t show “snippets” of my work.

Oh man I will have to edit this savagely.  I seen to have turned into “and” queen.  It will have to wait though I want to get  the manuscript finished so for all of those cringing about the “and”s and possibly the “was”es (hehe not much better there hey) they will get cleaned up in the edits.

Plan to catch up fully today.  The story is flowing nicely at present but we’ll see how it continues once I hit my stumbling block of 20,000 words.