Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Tag: WIP Wednesday

  • Growing Things

    We’ve been having great weather here in Michigan since school ended, wonderful weather for getting the gardens in shape. Now that Al is (still) laid off, he’s been helping me with the mulch and the heavy weeding and transplanting. I’m getting done in record time. After a final stint today, everything will be in: annuals,…

  • Dangerous Excuses

    A few days ago, after I had typed up all the handwritten pages, I put my notebook in a drawer. I had 164 pages; I could take a break. I was going to be super-busy with school for the next little while. It wasn’t like I came into these new courses with a fresh slate. There were…

  • Just Three Pages

    “Just three pages” is the  mantra I picked up from Julia Cameron. She was referring to three pages of journals, but I use it as a goal for my novel pages every day. Every morning I wake up knowing I’ll write those three pages and maybe more. It wasn’t always this way. I used to talk…

  • A Damn Good Mystery

    Asked my mystery-writer pal Josie for a good book on structuring mysteries. She recommended James N. Frey, who is not the James Frey of the Oprah scandal. Hence the N. Ordered from Amazon yesterday. Meanwhile,  I do not know what happens next in the WIP. My character needs to make a plan. Guess that means I…

  • Personal Angels

    Spiritual guides, soul partners, ghosts. Some people call them angels. I wasn’t always a believer. Until I turned 50, I felt angry and sad, cheated of the company of loved ones who had passed from this world. But then something happened, well, a couple of things. Several years ago, my two best friends died within…