Saturday Progress Report

Yes, there has been progress!  I'm about a 1/3 of the way through a chapter book. When I get stuck on a big project, I often switch to a smaller one, sometimes a much smaller one such as a poem or very short story. Why? 1. sometimes switching genres .. say from a mg novel to a short funny poem dekinks my brain 2. When I feel frustrated over not being able to work through a story point, I can be encouraged by working out something smaller. "See you did THAT, now go do the other." Maybe it's something like doing Soduku puzzles to exercise your brain before you tackle quantum physics or something. 

This afternoon I'll be meeting with my local critique group. It's been awhile since all five of us could be together. 

Saturday Progress Report

Okay, so it's Monday .. but Saturday was a HOLIDAY !  The temporary seasonal day job ended on Thursdays, so I'm back to writing. I've been doing some 'crafty' stuff lately .. reading and outlining chapter books and fiddling with fairy tales in an attempt to improve my plotting ability. And of course that all led into another project.  

Also I'm working on focusing on one thing at a time, writing wise - choosing one writing task and making that the goal for the day. Yeah, I'm a little scattered, ADD, whoopsie-brained, that's for sure. The same method has been working on the gardens. Each morning I decided which part of the garden I want to work on, and I limit myself to just that spot. I know .... this probably seems so simple to other people.

Even though I'm also prepping a house to put on the market, I hope that I'll have more writing time in the day, and that my Saturday progress reports will be more exciting.

Saturday Progress Report

Well, I've managed to get a blog entry up every day! But since I've been working on my temporary, seasonal, part time day job this week .. there's not much to report on the writing front.

Still working on one mg with another nipping at my toes or brain or something. It's haunting me, poking me, trying to get my attention.

Saturday Progress Report

My middle grade novel is fun to me again, mostly because I found the previously written ending which I forgot I had. The middle is still in pretty sad shape. The first nine chapters are polished. I put about 1500 words in on it today, some of them old. I'll work on it some more before the night is over. My goal is to have it in "showable" shape by the end of the month.  It helps that I joined this contest to "finish your book" in June, and I have a couple of really lovable but naggy friends.