katywriter

Just when I thought that I knew what I was doing in WIP, I make writing suicide.... I KILL off my MC after Chapter 5. Well,not really. He's alive, but my other MC doesn't know it yet * evil smile*

I haven't been writing as much as I'd like lately, but as I said previously, I've reading tons. I've got the Twilight saga sitting at the top of my TBR pile for "research" purposes so that I can learn to write a really believable love triangle btwn 3 characters.

That's my update for now.

NANO word count : 5688

Well, my stomach is grumbling so breakfast awaits!

My NaNo word count is barely at 4k, I'm a sad writer this year.

I haven't really been writing as much as I could, so it's my fault. Instead, I've spent my spare time reading. Every time that I go to the bookstore I end up buying a few books regardless if I need them or not, so along with reading Stephenie Meyer's The Host I've got two more books I need to read. Maybe I do need a library book, buying books at the pace that I do is rather expensive :(

Instead of writing at a whirlwind pace, I've been editing scenes because I couldn't get the story to move without them. I know that during NaNo your supposed to turn your inner editor off, but I can't seem to do that this time. I just can't get a grasp on this story. I sat down trying to write it one way and then I introduced a new character and now it's want to turn into something totally new. I'm tempted to copy and paste the bits that made it change and start writing that story and leave the "sequel" for later endeavors. I guess I'll let my muse do the talking.

Well, i'm going to get back to writing now.

NaNo word count : 4.580

No NaNo for me this year :(  I began late my first year writing, but I just can't seem to find the motivation to sit down at the computer and write the sequel to Stealing Cinderella that I was originally planning. I'm even having a hard time concentrating on Stephenie Meyer's The Host that I just bought last weekend, and I love to read!  Work also has me busy working constantly, so my hobby ie : writing, has taken a backseat to life this year. Oh well.

Good luck to everyone else though.

I intended to be a writing machine during Jonowrimo, but life got in the way of that. Now, on the first check in day I barely did an outline. Now I'm  toying with another story that I  began months ago.

I’d never really been the kind of girl who had to be part of the ‘in crowd’.  <----That's the first line of my WIP.

I'm not sure where it's going next, but I began it when I was reading Alyson Noel's Evermore. I pictured my MC like Ever, hiding away from the rest of the world, not really liking the popular crowd. I know that I always hated the "popular" girls in high school. Little miss perfects they all were and here I was with braces and a big nose, yuck. 

Teenage girls can be just down right mean at times. There are many books out on the subject, such as,  Mean Girls and Wannabees to Pledged, taking a look into soroities. Even movies are joining the bandwagon. My favorite one was always Mean Girls with Lindsey Lohan.

I know what I want to write, I just need to BICHOK now, wish me luck!

Summer's over.  When I was younger, that meant back to school shopping, earlier bed times, and homework. Now, nothing. I've got a new job which I'm starting sometime this week and I'm also going for my permit. Yes, I don't drive. I've failed my drivers test 3 times and not really had the inclination to try again. So, end of summer means finally doing things I've been avoiding for the last few months.

I've also had a pretty crappy summer. I spent a week in the hospital and then 6 weeks recuperating. I finally bought a new bathing suit, but only got to wear it a few times before the weather started to turn cold.

I've read tons of books and rewrote a novel. I sent it out to agents, but haven't had many positive responses. Who am I kidding?? I haven't had any. My critique partner said that this novel was better than my last one, but at least the last one got some interest. I think there is some truth in if you aren't that into your project as a writer, its going to show on your final pages. I wasn't that into the project at first and so its probably not my best work. I threw my heart into the other one.

I've basically been lazy all summer and am finally going to stop now.

I GOT A JOB!!!!!!!

Oh, how good it feels to say that again : ) Well, I'm waiting for the drug test and references to go through, but I'm good as gold.  I'm now working at Walgreens in Irwin, PA in a brand new store! I've never been part of a store opening before and so I'm excited to see what the entails. It will feel good to have $ in my bank account again. My money that I've earned and not asked my husband for. Although, we have a joint account I still kept my old account and try to use it when I want to buy myself something little or pay a bill.

I swear some agents have a automatic rejection letter that they send. Or, at least it seems that way.. I sent my novel to Nathan Bransford and again got a rejection from him. So far, I'm 2/ 25. The odds aren't that bad, but I just wish someone would say they like my writing. All this rejection isn't doing much for my self confidence here, lol.

I've got an $25 Amazon gift certificate sitting in my email that I'm just itching to use, but really want to try and save it to February to use on Kim Harrison's latest Hallows novel.  Right now, I'm reading a novel thats 676 pgs long, so its not like I really need a new book its just I want one. Know what I mean??

My husband and I have probably two boxes full of books that we need to take to Goodwill to get rid and haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm trying to help my MIL out and get some of our junk out of her basement, so that she has more room. I'm also finding books that I want to reread in those boxes, so my TBR pile keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Does anyone else reread books or am I the only one?

I've sent my novel to an editor! Well, not one of those I've gotten published editors, but she's an editor. You see, a few years ago I was planning on publishing my novel, Stealing Cinderella with a small publishing company that a friend of mine ran and she set me up with her editor. The publishing company didn't get off the ground so I stopped having contact with this editor until yesterday. I've been having so much trouble with my novel that I wanted a new fresh pair of eyes to read it and she said she'd look it over for me :) I hope that she likes it and gives me a lot of good suggestions!!!

I also just read jbknowles post about her novel, Jumping off Swings debuting today, congrats Jo! I hadn't realized that she'd been working on the idea since 01' that's a looong time.  That gives me confidence to work on all the ideas that I've got brewing in my head. Maybe one day, hopefully soon, one of them will become a published novel. I just have to keep writing, and believing.

In an earlier post I blogged that I'd found my NaNo 08' novel that I thought that I lost forever. Well, now as I go back and re-read it again I realize that I'm cringing more than enjoying the draft. Needless to say, it's a shitty first draft. At first I was trying to rewrite it looking back at the whole novel, but after a few days I realized that the only way that I was going to get through this rewrite and not delete it again was to break it up into chapters. So, that's what I did. 

I now have a different document for each chapter and am slowly and painfully rewriting it. Lately, I've been on a mystery kick so I've decided to try and vear away from YA and write an adult mystery. I'm not sure I like this idea right now. I'll sit and rewrite a page and then re-read it and realize that I liked it the first way and have to scramble and try to remember what it said.

It's a painful process. I've emailed the first chapter to my husband to read over because eventhough it begins with action and keeps going, I don't think that the first line is memorable at all. I'm wondering if I'm just trying to sabatoge this draft, so that I have an excuse to delete it again, but I'm not totally sure. 

First line: ‘I can’t believe it, I’m actually graduating’ I thought to myself excitedly, as I pulled into the school parking lot for what would be the last time.

Is this memorable enough?

1. Start with a KILLER title


2.Create a character with damn good demons


3. Start like a bat out of hell and keep on going!


4.Make the end of every chapter a seduction--so that the reader has no choice but to go onto the next one.

My brother sent me an Amazon gift card in my email this morning and told me to spend it wisely. He thinks that everything that I read is absolute junk! lol.

My brother and I have never really been able to get along- he's liberal, I'm conservative, he was a straight A student, I barely passed HS, you get the picture.  He also told me that I need to get a library card instead of buying books all the time. I disagree! I'm doing my part to help the economy by buying books, so there!

I need some suggestions of books that aren't absolute junk. I was thinking Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Any more ideas?

When I sent my novel, Stealing out to agents I got some pretty good reactions to it and I was feeling pretty confident. Until the last one....

"The MC sounds too feminine." I didn't understand what they were talking about because my MC was MALE!  The novel started with him staring out the window reflecting. Maybe that was something more females did, but my critique partner thought it was a good idea and I went with it at the time.

I'm thinking of have my MC in my WIP have a gay best friend and I'm not sure if I really know how to write male characters that well. My husband actually helped with Stealing. I'd write a chapter and then he'd write on and so on. Although, the rewrites were ALL ME and the final draft didn't really look anything like the first one. I guess that I'm afraid to jump back into a male character without his help.

Does anyone have any suggestions of books or articles I can read that may help with my male perspective?

Just  four  little words changed Emily Carson's life forever; Emily, please forgive me. When her parents die in a plane crash her life is changed forever.  She moves to NY city to live with her aunt and tries to get on with her life distracting herself with new friends, new life, new boys, but nothing can make her forget those words. What did her mother mean? Find out August 6, 2009 when Jennifer Jabaley's debut novel, Lipstick Apology is released.

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I sat down this morning and just started typing and this is what I've got so far......


I’d never given much thought to how I’d die, but as the car came rushing towards us, my life began flashing before my eyes. I could vaguely hear Lauren screaming in the seat next to me. It was as if I were in a fog.




It may be just me, but it seems to have an Twilight type feel to it.   I think I may have to re-read Twilight  as inspiration for this one. So far this is what I know....
 

• The Male MC is dead and is seeing everything as it happens, but doesn't know hes dead, yet. Maybe??

What do you think?

 

I slept GREAT for the first time since getting out of the hospital last night :) No weird dreams or nothing, yippie! The medications that the doctors have me on give me weird dreams and I hate it! At least, the lack of sleep is helping my writing though. I've only written 160 words, give or take, but I think its going to shape out well. I'm was planning on it being the "first" book of a three books series I have in my head, but whatever my muse gives me is great. I'm no longer going to concentrate on forcing my writing anymore and just let it go. Its better that way. 

I was planning on making this a longer entry, but I think I'm going to try to get some writing done before heading downstairs for the day. Byes!

"The more you make writing a part of your daily life, the greater your chance of success. If writing is just something that exists around the fringes of your universe, is that really commitment to your dream?" -Chandler Marie Craig.

Nov 07-NaNo began. I didn't finish, but kept the file on my computer for later endeavors.
Jan 08- I began writing Stealing Cinderella again and managed to finish it 4 months later.
May 08- I met my critique partner and began the revision process. There were many times that I wanted to stop, but I kept going.
Sept 08- I submitted to agents. I waited for answers, but alas no agent was estatic about it, so I started over.

Nov 08- I participated in NaNo again with another novel. This time I managed to finish it. I let it sit on the computer. I liked it, but wasn't as enthuastic  about it as Stealing.

????? I sent it off the my critique partner and she loved it! This time it went through 3-4 drafts before I began submitting. Alas, no responses or just plain old No from EVERY single one. Oh well.

I'm still tinkering around with both novels on my computer, but am no longer overjoyed to be doing it. I guess you could say, "writing is no longer part of my daily life, but something that exists around with fringes of my universe".

I have many ideas that I want to start, but can't seem to find the motivation. A few LJers have given me ideas, but health problems at the moment have kept me from really having the energy to sit down and start one. This is the longest entry I've written in a few weeks.  I have been reading a lot though. Right now I'm reading Danielle Steel's Family Album. When I was younger she used to be one of my favorite authors, but now as I get older I'm re-reading some of her books and I find myself getting caught on too many eclipses, scenes that drag or characters that talk without a point. Its frustrating!

I know that I'm not as talented a writer as Danielle Steel, but I can't help but think that after attempting a few novels I may have learned a thing or two. Has anyone else ever felt this way?

Hey there... It's been awhile since I wrote anything, but my life has been really busy lately! We've been in PA for over a week now and already miss being on our own. . We're staying with my in-laws in my brother in laws old bedroom because their house is being remodeled. Sleeping on an air mattress is already getting to the two of us! This weekend we're supposed to move bedrooms, hopefully that will help.

Since we've been  here, I've had my former roommate calling constantly and tell me he's thinking about killing himself because I told him we couldn't be friends anymore. You see, its kind of like Bella, Edward and Jacob. I'm Bella, of course, my husband is Edward and the former roommate is Jacob. He wants to be with me when I've told him that i'm happy with my husband  and don't want him, but he won't listen. He hasn't called in few days and I'm wondering if he actually did do something to himself, but am  I a bad person that I don't really care if he does?

I'm reading Alyson Noel's debut novel Evermore and I'm really enjoying it! I've read articles that compare it to Twilight but I don't think it is. There are similar aspects such as, Ever meeting Damien who for some reason speeds around really fast, is always ditching school, drinking a red drink, and makes me think he may be an vampire but unlike Bella she's not obsessed with him like Bella is with Edward. I'm looking forward to her latest, Blue Moon. I just hope I don't end up getting obsessed as I did with Twilight..

I still need to get a permit book to study for my permit test and get new glasses, then two of my many goals will be reached. I want to do a lot with my life to better myself, but sometimes don't think I can do it. I'm 28 years old and married, but sometimes I feel like i haven;t grown up yet, hehe.