This Week:
*Reading: On the last part of The Golden Compass (Phillip Pullman). In the home stretch and I am sneaking time to read in every available moment. I finally got past the first part of Wicked (Gregory Maguire). The Munchkinlander part is REALLY EFFIN" SLOW. It has picked up in part 2 and I feel more vested in it. Have not started Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie) yet.*Writing: wrote on Sunday (ROW80), write a little on Monday (just a paragraph, but I started developing some character for a new story. It's slightly Top Secret. Might post some on WIPpet Wednesday later this month. Wrote poem yesterday.
*Editing: finally a pen to the currently WIP and a backstory to the WIP, called Love in Ferns. Also edited a short flash fiction piece that I am not sure what to do with, yet.
*Social Media: finished reading all of Sunday's ROW80 entries, that is 4 a day and 5 or 6 Monday and Tuesday. Keeping up with Twitter most day, except Tuesday. Had a coffee date with a friend I hadn't seen for any length of time and got to schedule a photo shoot later this month. Get to show off the new red hair with NICE pictures.
*Housetending: keeping up with the basics at this point. Nothing new on the carpets, yet.
This Week (Upcoming):
*Reading: finish Golden Compass this week. Start Subtle Knife and the next Julie Anne Lindsey cozy mystery and Murder on the Orient Express.
*Writing: write daily on Love in Ferns and Top Secret Story.
*Submissions: THIS IS THE GOAL TO WORK ON THIS WEEK!!!
*Editing: pull out the Real Road Trip and attempt to pick up where I left off.
*Social Media: visit 4 blogs daily. Start to follow some of the regular ones. Learn to up keep my email and social media sites. This might take some planning. Any ideas would be welcome.
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Today is Wednesday. It's WIPpet Wednesday. The brain child of K.L. Schwengel, is a Blog Hop for WIPpeteers. You take the date and do some funky math and share a piece of the WIP you are working on. Date is 6/16/2015, so taking 6/17 you get 1 + 7 = 8. 8 lines from Love in Ferns. This is the beginning of the story, before the previous two snippets (if you are keeping track).
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I couldn’t turn towards her.
The air was heavy with humidity and clung to everything. I was sweating, but I couldn’t stop. After all I had gotten this far, right? I thought to myself. Stamping down the foliage, “It’s not much farther,” I called back, feeling nervous that if I turned to look at her I would lose my nerve.
Interesting snippet! Lots of progress this week! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteHaha, I'm getting hot just reading this!
ReplyDeleteReally? Good. I feel proud that I have done my done. :-)
DeleteLooks like you got quite a but done and I'm really curious about your super secret project. Good luck from a ROW80 blog hopping friend.
ReplyDeleteI am too. I need to sit down and write some. I started to create the characters and then the story, but not much has happened. I have the characters, well the core of them. I really need to just write. It's what I do and really seems to work for me. Thanks!!
DeleteWow, you are busy! Is this your first time reading Murder on the Orient Express, or is this a re-read? It's one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteI love the tension of the humid air, the tromp through the greenery, and the narrator's nerves. I definitely want to know where they're headed.
Yeah, first time with Orient, but I have read a number of her books before.
DeleteI'm glad I'm not the only person that sometimes has Top Secret stories. ;)
ReplyDeleteWishing you a good week/weekend of writing!
Hehehe!! It's fun!! :-)
DeleteThanks for stopping by!!
There are some great lines in this week's WIPpet--"a decidedly Callie-like thud" is probably my favorite, although I also like the way you describe the humidity and how the air clings to everything. Maybe that's because it's a humid day and I relate. :) You probably don't need "I thought to myself." Since we're in first person and it's not formatted as dialogue, readers will probably get that it's just a thought. (Sorry. My inner copyeditor is emerging.)
ReplyDeleteOkay, people keep mentioning "Wicked." I think I'm going to have to read it. And you've got me wanting to read more Agatha Christie. I love cozy mysteries!
Thanks for the inner critic. I sometimes miss the really small thing. It's nice to have someone looking out for those little things that drag a scene down. :-)
DeleteIt's a little slow in the first part (wicked) I mean. Agatha Christie is just fun to read.
Your evil job sounds a bit like my own did (yesterday was my last day). May things settle down there and you get a chance to just enjoy for a time soon instead of just the stolen moments.
ReplyDeleteNice snippet. the interplay between our narrator and Callie is fun to read... how they work together.
I hope so, I was rather irritated upon leaving work today (Thursday). And tomorrow's Friday, so it bound to be better, I think.
DeleteGlad you enjoyed it. :-)
I like that line 'a decidedly Callie-like thud'. I could feel the humidity - felt like I was in the jungle!
ReplyDeleteI like that decidedly-Callie thud. :-D That's a great description!
ReplyDeleteHmm, maybe I should try reading Wicked again. I couldn't finish it...but you've made me feel like rereading Agatha Christie!
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