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I always tell new writers not to rewrite as they go along in first draft because perfectionism sets in, and I still maintain if you’ve never completed a book save the [...]

Eighteen pages today. Tired. But I’m hoping that by tomorrow morning I’ll be ready to go again. Why the pick up in speed? Big Edward scene, I’d hoped the pace [...]

Safely back from Minnesota. I managed not to have out right hysterics on the plane, or even cry. Bully for me. We had between two and three hundred people. Not sure. I know it was [...]

Today is the day. A plane, cars driven by strangers, a city I don’t know. Hope I don’t cry on the plane because my very gentle eye make up remover (which I use to fix [...]

No pages today. No time at my desk at all. The day was spent preparing for the trip. I was waxed, and buffed, and, feel that it was a complete waste of my day. So why do it? [...]

Got up, and got going yesterday. At my desk by 8 something. Got ten pages done before lunch. Then after lunch it all fell apart. I started fussing at the scene. I know better. [...]

I had a long blog finished, but Jon checked on the what can and can’t go on a flight in this country and in Britain and it’s changed. I guess I should have checked the [...]

Question on tour: writer’s block and what to do about it? I’m not sure I’m the writer to ask this question of, because I don’t get writer’s block. [...]

Got eight pages done today. Yea! I’ve finally got my minim page count. I got my butt to the computer by 9:00 A. M. Since I knew I had a business meeting this afternoon, it [...]

Well here it is, one of the most frequently asked questions from tour. What do you do on days when the writing isn’t flowing? I can tell you what I did today, because it [...]