Write on! Plans & Probs with Publication (Book) http://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/812129-Write-on-Plans--Probs-with-Publication Yesterday's Word Count: 0 Total Word Count: 9,326 Well, I am just going to add my excuse for yesterday. The short version is that I had a huge personal crisis - ugh, so not gonna be a divorce blog, I know I keep saying that - and basically did nothing. Not just no-writing nothing, but nothing at all. Well, I almost did something; I packed my ...[Read Full Post] Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:16:09 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/677108 Today's word count: 3,240 Total word count: 9,326 Don't ask me why I'm writing over here. It's strange, because I have everything plotted out but I get to this stopping point and then...I stop. I don't know what it is. So today was productive. Okay, it was only about five pages (3,240 words) productive, BUT: I recreated...[Read Full Post] Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:10:01 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/676934 Does it count as Day Three, if Day One was only, like, an hour long? Well, whatever. So I finally finished the first section of my novel, the set-up to everything else. Now I have to take a break from writing and really plan out the intricacies of time travel. This book is a headache to plot, much less to write. And I know I'm going to have to go bac...[Read Full Post] Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:00:18 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/676874 Wow. So last night was painful. Actually, it wasn't. I can't believe how quickly and easily it is coming together. After I wrote two pages last night, I forced myself to put down the laptop and go to bed. I didn't have a chance until about 1:30 or 2 to start writing today, but I'm writing now. I'm on page 7. Okay, so five pages in an ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:03:36 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/676729 Well, I have been offline for close to forever. I promise, I sent in the children's book, but I didn't even get a rejection letter...then I got distracted. Life is very chaotic right now, so I don't know why I'm here, except that I have been reinfected with a desire to work on my novel again. I put together several ideas and characters, if you remem...[Read Full Post] Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:20:51 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/676633 Well, this month has been full of plans as well as probs, so I guess that was an apt title for my blog. I am sort of disgusted with myself as to how little I have written. I haven't had a significant amount of free time, but the truth is that I have wiled it away in stupid mind-numbing things like playing on the computer. Mind you, in between everyon...[Read Full Post] Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:56:38 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/632504 Well, it's been a long two and a half weeks. We keep passing around whatever bug we have, from one kid to another kid to me to another. Michael was gone for one week and now he's gone again, so I'm doing battle on my own. Suffice it to say that I haven't gotten any writing done. I've looked, here and there, at my Eratosthenes book, and I&#39...[Read Full Post] Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:04:30 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/631072 After a great start to the new year, I fizzled out last week, when all four of my kids - AND ME - got sick, with my husband out of town. So basically, nothing got done last week. I intended to get back on the ball this week, but I totally forgot that Saturday is my son's birthday party, and my MIL is flying in on Thursday night. So it is highly doubt...[Read Full Post] Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:17:52 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/629331 Yesterday, I kept my posted vow and made a schedule for January. And then...last night, I was up until almost four in the morning (and I had to get up early for church today, mind you), laying in bed, thinking. I'm glad for what I thought of, but I would have preferred to have received it in dream form. Maybe. Maybe not. So, Santa brought my 7 year old a cir...[Read Full Post] Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:16:10 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/627759 Okay, I did it! I packaged the first five pages (per publisher's request) of my first chapter book, along with a query letter, and mailed it to Arthur Levine publishing company. They are a subsidiary of Scholastic books. Now, the down side is that it is a large publishing house, but the upside is that they quote their response time in Writer's Market as 2 w...[Read Full Post] Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:57:59 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/627586