Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Tag: word count
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Shake it Up
A few things. I’m not going through the hassle of converting from whatever photos is saving pictures to now or how WordPress is doing it now to jpeg anymore. That takes longer than writing a blog post. I am back to writing my novel daily and so I’m just using Pexels which comes with WordPress.…
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1000 words a day
Nine pages this morning. Not that I’m counting. Every time I make a plan, something happens to disrupt it, so I’m just going with the flow. I know my story, and so far I know what happens next, so I’m just writing until I come to the end of ideas for the day. My plan…
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200 pages
Just passed page 200. Without even thinking about it, I did the whole part where the hero is thwarted big time and feels he’s come to a dead end. Now I’ve made things even more mysterious to him. He can’t find his way back to the trail of the murderer. What helped me do all…
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Mission Accomplished
A national goal met! And a personal one! Yesterday was a highly emotional day, but I still managed to write. I voted early, only waiting a little over an hour to cast my historical ballot. Obama was not my first choice, but I believe he is a good man, a man of superior intellect and…
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Words!
The real motivator I remember from the one time I participated in National Novel Writing Month (starts today! good luck to y’all!) was that I kept a daily word count. I’ve been doing that again with my revision sessions and just seeing the new words pile up inspires me to keep going for another chapter, even if I feel…