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.

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.

Saturday, November 18, 2017

Today I received images from my publisher for possible use on my novel’s cover. We went over them and I STILL couldn’t decide between two of a certain image that I liked. It was suggested to me that I ask my kids to pick so I did. They both selected one image so that’s the one that was chosen! I am just glad I did not have as much trouble with the character image.

Worked on novel revisions.

Wrote some poems for the poetry book.

Did some research for the Supernatural book. I have decided that there is enough material in this show for this kind of book but I will finish out the year gathering information for it before I put together my book proposal.

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

This month's book to finish writing is a poetry book. The theme is deafness/being deaf. Anything related to the deaf world. So I started putting together a manuscript of what poems I have for this book so far. I also hope to finish writing the first book in the "Revise Your Writing" series. I only need about 5 chapters for that one!