My Mobile Blogger Account

I'm so psyched!!! I just got the blogger app for my phone. Now I can write posts wherever I go :)

However feel I should forewarn all of you that my phone does a horrible job at auto correcting spelling, and the keypad is slightly broken so it doesn't do a great job at spelling anyhow. So do expect errors, though I will do everything I can to keep these errors down to a minimum, and when I see them I will correct them as soon as I possibly can. 

Thanks!

Writer's Block is Over!!!

I've been so consumed by recent writer's block I've stayed away from all things writing. But I've recently 'recovered' so now I'm back on the writing horse so to speak; I'm finally able to get back to the manuscript, and blogging, and just writing in general.

Yesterday was when the wall broke down at long last and I wrote what I think is something beautiful. I'm really proud of it, and I'm not going to share the whole thing yet as I need to edit it first, but here's the last line that I won't let anyone tweak unless they offer some absolutely great advice I just can't turn down it (yes it is that important to me). 

From Changing Kathryn 70,000 first serial rights 2016:

"An eye for an eye makes a whole world blind. A life for a life only leads to extinction.” -Jake Michaels

Well that's all I'm going to say for now. I really want to get back to working on my book; I am absolutely jonesing!!!!

Oh, p.s.:

I think it goes without saying, but because I was avoiding writing-stuff I haven't checked my blog email, and I haven't done anything on Pen Guardians in a while. I will get back to that this evening, but right now I'm too determined to continue working on my book for the afternoon. 

The URL For Reading About Editing

I found this link about editors and what they do so I'm posting it here so that I can read it later, or that you can peruse this for yourself. I'd write more on this, but I'm running out of time (I have places to be) so there you have it-

http://theeditorsblog.net/2011/02/01/duties-of-an-editor-how-editors-help-writers/

Page Count Update!!!

I'm super psyched-

Just checked to see my page count for the heck of it: 139

That's incredible (to me). I'm so happy! And that's with all the new stuff I've added. There's still some stuff I have to delete, and just a chapter or two I have to add and then I'm done. But 139 is excellent!!!! (especially compared to the original 805 count that was so overwhelming I could hardly even breathe)

Tuning Out Criticisms

Currently I'm in Eugene visiting my parents and I went to a face-to-face writer's meet up this morning where I've figured out why I've been having so much trouble finishing my book.

I've got it exactly where I've wanted it to go, despite minor errors and slight new additions and things that should be deleted. So I've been struggling with why the heck I can't finish my book. The meetup helped me break it down:

I'm currently an editor (in training) so I'm looking at everything through my writer's eye, but also through the eye of an editor. In order to accomplish anything (in my book), however, I have to just get my writer's voice out and going, then once that's out the critic has to come out and the writer's voice has to be silent.

In other words only one voice at a time should ever be speaking.

This is going to help me tremendously!