Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Busy Writing

I've been spending all of my spare time writing. That's good right? I got blocked a while back on my WIP One Wish. Try as I might, nothing and I mean nothing would come to mind. Then just like that, I'm in the car with the girls and it hits me. So you don't have anything to say in One Wish, that doesn't mean you need to stop writing. I got home that night and picked up the laptop and began a new story.

That was Thursday, April 2nd. By Sunday the 4th I had written 12,000+ words. I was on fire. Now it's Tuesday April 21 and as of last night I'm at 21,000+ words. That's an average of a little over 1100 per day. I am ecstatic. Best thing is, It's still flowing. I think this is it. This is the story. Wish me luck though, since I'm not even half way there.

I'm going to change out the word counter for One Wish, and put one in for "Streaming Through The Rift" which is the title of my WIP. It's a Young Adult Fantasy Adventure. Takes places on several different worlds. Hmmm, you say.

I'm going to be needing some feedback, hopefully I can find a couple more readers. I need to get back on Critique Circle too and submit there. My problem is I want the help, but don't want to crit others. Selfish I know. I think I have to change that about myself.

Big news - I mailed off my submission today for the First Pages Panel at SCBWI Western Washington. Hopefully I will be one of the lucky ones picked for the Agent/Editor to read.

Soo excited to be going to my first Writers Conference. Counting down the days!

Are you writing? How is that going for you?

Thanks for stopping by,

Cass

1 comment:

Trisha Pearson said...

Hi Cass,

I saw your comment over on Nathan Bransford's blog so I wanted to stop over and "meet" you. I'm attending SCBWI Western Washington next month and it's my first conference too. I read in your blog that you signed up for the first pages panel - me too!

I'm glad you are on a strong writing streak. I've kind of been stuck but I did about 1,200 pages today myself so I'm hoping I'm unstuck now.

Happy Writing!