Diana's Writing Blog

Okay, looking over how far I still have to go, I may have to revise my new goal. But I’ll cross that bridge when I get there.

In other news, my alarm failed to go off this morning and I slept till 10. I was so pissed! This has to be the fifth time it happened. It’s not like I get in trouble or anything, but it doesn’t exactly make me look good. I’m going to have to work out a secondary alarm system or something, I think….

Well, I’m inching toward the end of this novel, I think. Of course, it’s in super rough format and will need to be heavily edited (at least another month). But somehow just getting the bones of the story written makes editing a lot easier and helps me sort out where I’m going with it, at least. The interactions between people seem a bit forced, but I’m hoping that’ll be fixable once I know more about their characters. I have to be able to, like, channel them to properly do dialogue.

Anyway, I aimed for 52,000 today just to reset my word count to something easy to remember. And I’m aiming for 60,000 by next week. Hopefully this mother’ll finish up in another 20 pages.

I broke 50,000 baby! I’m like 8 days late on my quota of 50,000 by Dec. 31, but I started late, so there. Anyway, as predicted, the novel’s not quite done. I’d say it’s about 3/4 to 2/3 done, though. Probably another week or two and then I start on the next novel. And start editing. Yep, getting right on that. I might get a book about self-editing from Amazon as a reward for my awesome writing progress.

Okay, this novel is definitely going to be more than 50,000 words, but it’s still pretty impressive to be close to 50,000 words. With luck, it won’t be too much more. I already have another novel I want to work on. Also, about every time I’m home, I have a conversation that goes something like this:

“So, did you start editing your 2nd Lori novel?” (she just finished reading the finalish draft of the first)
“Uh…Yeah…Meant to…I’ll probably do that next week.”
“Okay. Cause I really want to read it.”

So, I should probably actually get on that. God, between writing 2,000 words a day and editing what I’ve already written, this could be like a full time job or something. Sheesh!