The Cottage of Blog
The Cottage of Blog
Good morning,
Where the coffee is perking, the country is the United States of America and I speak English (and a smattering of French and Germany--sing in Italian and have sung in Portugese. that's another story)
I'm back in the groove again. bound and determined that come June 17th I will change jobs. I will be a writer. A novelist. Whether I make a million dollars at it (wouldn't that be nice) or less than a penny.
I will have a new job.
Job description and schedule plans:
Get up, scoot dogs out the door, put on coffee drag myself across the kitchen to my home-office and turn on computer. check email. Eat breakfast.
Get on exercycle for 5 minutes whether I want to or not.
Pick up poop in back yard.
Pick up house. (Not literally)
Check on email. get off email.
check work from previous day. Any research that needs to be checked on previous chapters? Check outline and see where today's plotline may be going. Will it work?
Make novel altering decisions (NOT) Go back and check previous chapter.
Work on new scene.
Do some housework, if I have to. Check email.
Work on new scene. Put head between legs and take deep breaths and go back and redo that lousy first draft scene. Take a few more deep breaths. Walk around the house ranting. Go back and start again.
Take coffee break. Check email. Write in blog. Laundry anyone?
Back to scene. What? You mean we're actually on to the next scene? Write.
Lunch.
Time for researching what might be confusing or not quite right.
A little reading from craft book of choice.
Little more writing of said scenes (2 now?) OR/ time for recreational novel reading. from: romantic suspense, suspense, mystery, horror, paranormal, take your pick.
My day will go by fast. Or slow.
I figure up at 6:30 working from about 8-11/30, reading writing again in afternoon/reading. Evening's free.
Of course that's my schedule 13 weeks before it even begins.
I might start with research/reading then ease into thewriting part.
There's also the few hours a week I'll need to research mhy market. Agents, publishers anyone who even remotely looks like they might like my material.
Pat who's going to start looking back at chapter 4, then determine what my outline looks like for chapter 5. actually, I do work in scenes, sequels, events and happens, but sorry folks who hate chapters, they all do have to fall within the confines of chapters. I doubt there's a publisher in the world who will accept a novel in a stream of scenes, sequels, happenings and events.
Take care from The Cottage of Blog
pat
Good morning,
Where the coffee is perking, the country is the United States of America and I speak English (and a smattering of French and Germany--sing in Italian and have sung in Portugese. that's another story)
I'm back in the groove again. bound and determined that come June 17th I will change jobs. I will be a writer. A novelist. Whether I make a million dollars at it (wouldn't that be nice) or less than a penny.
I will have a new job.
Job description and schedule plans:
Get up, scoot dogs out the door, put on coffee drag myself across the kitchen to my home-office and turn on computer. check email. Eat breakfast.
Get on exercycle for 5 minutes whether I want to or not.
Pick up poop in back yard.
Pick up house. (Not literally)
Check on email. get off email.
check work from previous day. Any research that needs to be checked on previous chapters? Check outline and see where today's plotline may be going. Will it work?
Make novel altering decisions (NOT) Go back and check previous chapter.
Work on new scene.
Do some housework, if I have to. Check email.
Work on new scene. Put head between legs and take deep breaths and go back and redo that lousy first draft scene. Take a few more deep breaths. Walk around the house ranting. Go back and start again.
Take coffee break. Check email. Write in blog. Laundry anyone?
Back to scene. What? You mean we're actually on to the next scene? Write.
Lunch.
Time for researching what might be confusing or not quite right.
A little reading from craft book of choice.
Little more writing of said scenes (2 now?) OR/ time for recreational novel reading. from: romantic suspense, suspense, mystery, horror, paranormal, take your pick.
My day will go by fast. Or slow.
I figure up at 6:30 working from about 8-11/30, reading writing again in afternoon/reading. Evening's free.
Of course that's my schedule 13 weeks before it even begins.
I might start with research/reading then ease into thewriting part.
There's also the few hours a week I'll need to research mhy market. Agents, publishers anyone who even remotely looks like they might like my material.
Pat who's going to start looking back at chapter 4, then determine what my outline looks like for chapter 5. actually, I do work in scenes, sequels, events and happens, but sorry folks who hate chapters, they all do have to fall within the confines of chapters. I doubt there's a publisher in the world who will accept a novel in a stream of scenes, sequels, happenings and events.
Take care from The Cottage of Blog
pat
posted by Unknown at 9:04 AM
4 Comments:
Hey Pat!
Just stopping in to say hi and that I'm back to blogging. Hope all is going well with you.
Hugs,
Tanya
Hey, Pat, glad to see you out and about on the blogs! Are you going to start blogging again?
Pat,
When are you coming back?
Tanya
Hi guysj.
I'm coming back to the Cottage.
I've retired, as I mentioned I would. I'm trying to get my new life organized. There has been so much to do. My mom passed away last December and we're having a family memorial service in July. I'll be going to NY for about 10 days. I'll probably blog before that. I hope to start today.
I'd like a new blog format but I'm not sure what I want right now. Anyone have any suggestions, I'd love to know.
Do you need any special permission to post articles? Or, will a simple acknowledge who wrote it do?
How safe do you think it is to use examples of your own work on the blog site. I'm thinking not very.
gotta go. I'm taking car in for servicing.
Pat
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