Cynthia Harrison

Now that I wrote the last scene, which I was afraid I’d botch, but which went smooth and sweet, Luke’s #1 Rule is finished. Again. For now. If and when Harlequin requests the full I will go back and read it again and fill in any blanks, but I really feel like I have it…

So I wrote 8 pages in 90 minutes at the coffee shop. That’s a little over 10 minutes a page. Today I wrote some more, and then because I felt so far from finished, I went a little crazy with math and figured out how long, based on the above formula, it would take to…

I was more than an hour early for a meeting with the Immediate Past and the current Presidents of DWW. I’d brought my laptop because we were working on an important document. When they didn’t show, I knew I could shop in the bookstore for an hour, no problem except to my checkbook. I almost…

I finished the revisions for Luke’s #1 Rule today. Yay! Although…wait. Not quite time to celebrate yet. I’m short a good 20K words for Harlequin American Romance. There’s an easy solution: add more layers, more chapters. It does wind up pretty damn quick. I tend to sprint too fast to the finish line, not pacing myself (or my…

This morning I asked myself how much revision I thought I could accomplish in the next week. We have Monday off school so that’s a little bonus time. I want to use it well. I want to write every day and clear 30 pages a day. 30 pages a day would take 3-4 hours a day. And would mean…