Weekly Update 6/11/05

Posted on June 12, 2005 by Annie Rayburn/Carol Burnside

Weekly Productivity Report
Date——–T/B—M/L—R/S— Ttl Pgs
6/05——— 0—– 0——0——- 0
6/06 ———0—– 0——0——- 0
6/07 ———0—– 0——0——- 0
6/08 ———0—– 1——0——- 1
6/09 ——– 0—– 1——0——- 1
6/10 ———0—– 3——0——- 3
6/11 ———0—– 5——0——- 5
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Wkly Ttls: –00—-10—–00——10— Slowly but surely!
Prev Ttls: — 19—- 49 —-09—– 77*
Ttl Pg Ct: — 19—- 59 —-09—– 87

* Found mistake in previous calculations–in my favor. 🙂

Had a nice surprise in the mail today. I won a drawing from Wax Romantic e-zine. The prize was a book: Dreamquest by Janet Wellington. My thanks to Janet and Jean Lauzier of Wax.

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Too lax?

Posted on June 11, 2005 by Annie Rayburn/Carol Burnside

I’ve been thinking maybe I’ve been too lax with my writing. I’m not one to analyze and decipher every scene and chapter. If it feels like the characters are growing and the plot progressing, I leave things alone. But one of my CP’s is very dilligent about making sure every scene counts, so I thought I’d try it myself. After all, this is the WIP I had to write a Synopsis for after the 2nd chapter. May as well keep a good thing going.

So far, so good on Return To Paradise. First of all, in looking at each scene individually, I’ve tried to make sure each one has either a Goal, Motivation, or Conflict function and that it was at does at least two other things. I must confess I haven’t really been too focused on whether each scene rachets up the tension or whether I have rising action, but a quick review in my head says yes.

I was just curious if anyone else does this sort of thing as they’re writing, or do you wait until the revision process – or not at all?

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Minor light bulb moment

Posted on June 11, 2005 by Annie Rayburn/Carol Burnside

>Somewhere between my uncharacteristic early morning awakening and my return to bed this morning, I worked out a plot complication for my heroine that I think will work in my new WIP. Now I’ve got a dilemma. With the new plot complication, I could add another for the hero & make this a Blaze instead of a novella.

Decisions, decisions…

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