Author: lisahannett

Week Four story is at about 950 words. After much hmm-ing and haaa-ing about this story (is it too slow? Is it too long? Should it be longer? Maybe it’s just right? Maybe it’s boring? Should I cut the whimsical elements and make it more subtle?) I’ve had a shared epiphany.First, I find it hard…… Continue reading In which I have an epiphany

…that last night I came up with a title for my Week 4 story that I am really quite proud of. (Or, should I say, ‘a title for my Week 4 story of which I am really quite proud." Damn you critique brain! Shut up while I’m on my blog!)

Red is for High momentsBlue is for Low moments9:00 last night: read the 10,000 word whopper of a story and loved it10:00 last night: read stephmor ‘s story and discovered that she rose to my ‘no semi-colon challenge’ and did not use a single semi-colon in the entire story!! (She rocks, I might add, as does…… Continue reading The 18 hour teeter-totter

After a thoroughly enjoyable weekend (went to see ‘Tales of Desperaux’ with Angela & her sis & nephew–they are just lovely, and the movie was very sweet; had another Dr Who marathon on Saturday–we now have David Tennant action, but I still have a soft spot for Christopher Eccleston (aka the REAL Doctor); and gobbled up…… Continue reading The Blahs

4,338 words. That’s about 3,000 words since yesterday. The story is drafted. It’s  viewable. It may even be decent. But I’ll judge that when I’m feeling more lucid. Plus, I’d like to tweak it a bit before Monday, so it might not be that decent after all. Nevertheless, you may not realise it, but you have…… Continue reading Drafted!

It is 8:09 pm. Time spent writing today: hours. Possibly too many to justify the low wordage. Word count: 3,307 (yes, that’s 2,000 words in one day, thank you very much. And still writing.) Scenes left to write before Week Three story’s in the bag: 2 Time left to write today: hours. No critting on…… Continue reading Progress report

Week 3 story is at about 1,350 words — which, considering the overall Sahara-ness of my brain yesterday, is not too shabby. The story is taking on a life of its own, which is just the way I likes it — if the tone doesn’t click somewhere around the 1,000 word mark, then I start…… Continue reading Word count creeping skyward

My magic dress is having a positive effect on my writing today (although, admittedly, this is a *new* new magic dress, so it might just be that my brain has decided to play nice) and my story is now 40 words shy of 1,000. We’re heading to Avid Reader early this evening to attend Sean’s…… Continue reading Flirting with 1,000

You know you’re tired when you go to put handsoap on your toothbrush. 1.5 stories left to crit…

Today’s writing was hard. My tired brain couldn’t even piggyback Angela’s mojo, even though she was writing up a storm next door. I kept writing, then deleting; writing then deleting; thereby ignoring one of my most fundamental ‘rules’ of writing. Namely, write something. Edit later, because you can’t edit nothing.I seem to have forgotten that…… Continue reading On ignoring your own rules