Friday, December 22, 2017

Went over material included in the new haunted houses book. Found out I had forgotten to include YET ANOTHER THING so I added it and I also fixed some mistakes I had missed in the last review. Is this the book where I keep forgetting to include things in the revision/production process?? I wonder. But I'm glad I caught those things this time. I also added more stuff.

Wrote in GHOST Group Seven.

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Wrote in GHOST Group Seven.

Wrote in the book on overcoming fear.

Added material to the Wisconsin section in the new version of the haunted houses book. Finished Wisconsin. Started adding material to the Wyoming section of the new version of the haunted houses book. Finished Wyoming. All 50 states are now DONE and updated.

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Added more material to the Wisconsin section in the new version of the haunted houses book.

Wrote in the health book. Finished a chapter.

Wrote in the new first book in in the "Revise Your Writing" series. Finished a chapter.

Tuesday, December 19, 2018

Wrote some more in GHOST Group Seven.

Wrote some more in the book on overcoming fear.

Added material to the Wisconsin section in the new version of the haunted houses book.

Monday, December 18, 2017

Added more material to the Wisconsin section in the new version of the haunted houses book.

Wrote some more for a chapter in the new first book in the "Revise Your Writing" series.

Wrote some more in the chapter for the health book.

Friday, December 15, 2017

Started working on the Wisconsin section in the new version of the haunted houses book.

Wrote in a chapter for the new first book in the "Revise Your Writing" series.

Wrote in a chapter for the health book.

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Started working on the West Virginia section in the new version of the haunted houses book. Finished West Virginia.

Wrote in GHOST Group Seven.

Started writing a chapter in the book about overcoming fear.

Downloaded the cover template for the dreams poetry book that I received from the cover designer.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Started writing a new chapter for the new first book in the "Revise Your Writing" series.

Added material to the Washington section in the new version of the haunted houses book. Finished Washington.

Wrote up a blurb for the dreams poetry book and downloaded the cover template. Sent them off to the cover designer.

Started writing a new chapter in the health book.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Wrote in GHOST Group Seven.

Did some research for a chapter in the book on overcoming fear.

Added material to the Washington section in the new version of the haunted houses book.

Monday, December 11, 2017

Wrote some more in a chapter for the health book. Finished the chapter.

Wrote another chapter for the new first book in the "Revise Your Writing" series.

Started adding material to the Washington section in the new version of the haunted houses book.

Saturday, December 9, 2017

FINALLY revised the poetry book on dreams and dreaming. I was dissatisfied with one of the poems so I gave it a rewrite. I also finally figured out a title for this book. Contacted the editor about when to send it in for edits.

Put ALL the poems I wrote for the deaf poetry book into one file. Counted the poems and rearranged them so they'd flow better. Did a bit of revising with the poems but not yet revising the whole thing. That's getting saved for another day!

Did some research for the book, End Game, via links from Martha.

Friday, December 8, 2017

Wrote some more in the new first book in the "Revise Your Writing" series.

Wrote some more in a chapter for the health book.

Added more material to the Virginia section in the new version of the haunted houses book. Finished Virginia.

Finished writing a chapter in the book on overcoming fear.

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Wrote some more in GHOST Group Seven.

Wrote some more in the chapter for the book on overcoming fear.

Added more material to the Virginia section on the new version of the haunted houses book.

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Added more material to the Virginia section in the new version of the haunted houses book.

Wrote in a chapter for the health book. While I was writing this chapter, I got an idea for a new poetry book! That is pretty cool because the other day I was thinking about how I am working on the last of the poetry books that I had unfinished and there were no more to write or create poems for. Now I have the idea for another poetry book to write! Yay!

Started writing a new chapter for the new first book in the “Revise Your Writing” series.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Wrote in GHOST Group 7 manuscript.

Wrote in a chapter for the book on overcoming fear.

Added more material to the Virginia section in the new version of the haunted houses book.

Monday, December 4, 2017

Worked on my notes for the books I am working on. Created a new "writing schedule" for them that is compatible with my new job schedule. I'll be able to get work done on these books AND write even as I work full-time this week! I just have to get up early enough in the morning to get that 1 hour of time.

I applied for a part-time position and got a full-time schedule. The LAST full-time job I had was when I was working as a freelance writer!

Anyway, I digress.

Started writing a chapter in the health book.

Made notes for new chapters to write in the book on preparing for the revision process in the "Revise Your Writing" series.

Started working on the Virginia section in the new version of the haunted houses book.

Sunday, December 3, 2017

I finished gathering together the poems for the poetry book I am working on this month. There are 16. So I'll finish writing the poems for this book. Not sure yet how many poems there will be in this one.

Saturday, December 2, 2017

Yesterday was a VERY busy and also a difficult day but I was able to set aside some time to go over my notes for the book I want to finish writing this month. That would be the health book. I am thinking of making changes because it needs to have a stronger focus for a specific audience. I also went over notes on what poetry book I want to finish writing this month.

Today I went over my notes again. I also started gathering together what poems I have for this month’s poetry book to finish writing. It’s the last incomplete poetry book!

I WOULD also like to finish writing the book on overcoming fear, as well as the other book for the "Revise Your Writing" series (and I also came up with a new chapter to include in this book and added to my notes for it) and the seventh GHOST Group book, but we will see. 

This being the last month of the year, I also hope to finish fixing up the new version of the haunted houses book, get the new cover specs, and get it published.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Today is the last day of November! And one of my last-day-of-the-month routines for THIS particular year is to check my progress on the book I planned to finish writing this month, see what more needs to be done, check my notes for this book and determine if I can indeed write the last of the book today! I was ready to do just that for the poetry book I have been working on this month – and everything toppled to the ground when I pulled out my original note for this book. When I got the idea for this book, I wrote it down on a sheet of paper. That paper has been in my writing notebook all month. But I never really consulted it. I gave it a quick glance, got the theme “Deaf,” and went to work. Then today I read it more thoroughly and, well, it just threw me off track. Because I saw my original notes and realized that I wasn’t writing the book I originally planned to write! The poems I wanted to write were experimental poems. Something a little bit different from the norm. The poems I have been writing are NOT experimental! Most of them are free verse, yes, but they’re pretty much your standard fare for poetry. So I saw my notes and suddenly wanted to write THOSE kinds of poems for this book! Oh, but wait, I already wrote these other poems for the book. They’re not experimental, but they’re not bad, either. (Well, that’s what I think, anyway!) And they do have some good messages coming from a deaf person to the hearing world. But I couldn’t really decide which type of book to make THIS particular poetry book. I thought about it a lot, compared it to similar books already out there, and thought on it some more. I even tried writing some of the poems in that experimental form. I STILL couldn’t decide! So I will leave this one unfinished until I can decide which route to take with it. If anything, maybe I’ll just combine it. I don’t think that will hurt anything.

Aside from that, I also did some more writing in GHOST Group 7 today. 

LATER: Hours after I posted that, I wrote up a storm. Lots of poems of the experimental type. I have decided to combine both books. The poems will be BOTH traditional and experimental. That said, it's done. Yay!

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Started working on the Utah section in the new version of the haunted houses book. Finished Utah. Started working on the Vermont section in the new version of the haunted houses book. Finished Vermont.

Wrote some poems for the deaf themed poetry book.

Wrote some more in GHOST Group 7.

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Yesterday and today, I added more material to the Texas section in the new version of the haunted houses book. Finished Texas.

Yesterday and today, I went over the PDF proof of my forthcoming novel. Finished going over it and sent back a list of mistakes that I missed during the last read-through.

Finished writing a chapter in the health book.

Monday, November 20, 2017

Started working on the Texas section in the new version of the haunted houses book.

Wrote some more in the chapter I started writing for the book on overcoming fear.