by Charlene Teglia | Mar 21, 2007 | Uncategorized
Is really starting to click in my head. I’ve been working on scope and theme and cast of characters and the bigger questions like why does the outcome matter. And good stuff is coming together! I think this book is really going to be fun, especially since I get to do really evil things to my characters, mwahahaha.
MLH is also progressing nicely. I think working on the two side by side jarred thing loose for Damned because MLH is pure over-the-top comedy and it got me to look at the story in a different light.
Oh, and the pollen count seems to be going down now. Thank God. Everybody in the house has been hit hard with very high counts of multiple pollens all at once for the past two weeks. Even the cat was sneezing. Amazing how much easier it is to think when you’re not zonked on antihistamines. Everything bloomed all at once so we sort of had this time-lapse-photography spring. Good news is, once everything’s bloomed, the pollen madness is over.
by Charlene Teglia | Mar 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’ve joined the Write Ons. Fast Draft is better with a group. I am working on that “Damned” book and figuring out the order of scenes for the end of Miss Lonely Hearts. All this stuff has to come together at the end and I know what it is, I’m just moving the puzzle pieces around. Write On should help me get past thinking too much. It’s funny but when you stop overthinking you can see the “whole” better and things start to fall into place.
So. 20 pages a day. 2 weeks. Write on.
by Charlene Teglia | Mar 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
My desk and files are now all in order. I’d let 5 months worth of stuff pile up between deadlines, holidays, moving, monster storms and power outages. Ack. Note to self; never do that again! But it’s all caught up, cleaned up, and organized now and tax information is all together and I have some outgoing mail ready to go out. So it can sit on somebody else’s desk, heh.
Now that the house and desk are all clean and in order, I can get back to focusing on writing! And discussing whether or not heffalumps will eat all the cookies with the toddler.
by Charlene Teglia | Mar 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’ve got a couple of scenes in mind for the beginning of St. Martin’s #3 (in need of a title; Damned If You Do was close but no cigar. I’m voting for Damned Sexy next). One scene is backstory and it’s the “beginning”, but I’m not sure if it’s the beginning of the book. Maybe I’ll use it later on in the book as flashback. Maybe it’ll be prolog. I’m leaning towards prolog. It’s past. And then the next scene jumps to present day. Is it the “right” beginning? Do I have things in the right order? Time (hahaha) will tell. Sometimes I can’t tell until I’m a ways in what things go where.
Sometimes I decide a scene just doesn’t need to be in the story and I cut it altogether.
Fortunately, I don’t have to write in the right order. It’s so easy to move scenes around to where they belong later. Or axe them if they seem to bog things down.
by Charlene Teglia | Mar 16, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here in the land of green, green, green, I feel so in the mood. In case anybody wants to cook up some corned beef and cabbage, here’s a foodie’s St. Patrick’s Day from Sunset Magazine.
Today’s a good day to walk, write, pet cats, and admire the new copies of Catalyst on my shelf. Author copies arrived yesterday. That’s something to celebrate even without a holiday! I think cookies are called for.
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