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A Change Of Plans
A Field of Paper Flowers | June 10th 2008 by Kathleen
I was all set to write a post about series, as that’s what I have been giving a great deal of thought to since Sunday, when I finally sat down with this month’s issue of The Writer and read through a few excellent articles on series chara read more
Out With A Whimper
A Field of Paper Flowers | May 17th 2008 by Kathleen
Well the 3rd round of the 70 Days of Sweat is over. I don’t even know were I stand on final words for the challenge. Maybe somewhere between 30k-40k? It’s been so long since I’ve really written–first because of our vacat read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | May 8th 2008 by Kathleen
TD: 632 Daily Goal: Not met It was, however, about 4 times what I wrote last night, so that’s a definite improvement. Maybe tomorrow I’ll finally make it back to 1k. Hubby has to work an 8 hour shift on Saturday, so I ought to have so read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | May 7th 2008 by Kathleen
TD: 159 Daily Goal: Not met Never really got focused in on this, but I did some revamping of the end of the scene where I left off, so hopefully I’ll be able to pick back up tomorrow. I need to face the fact that the next couple of days of wo read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 27th 2008 by Kathleen
Til Death: 1132 Daily Goal: Met–hot diggity dog! Actual progress to report! Who knew? This morning I finished what was, I think, my 3rd or 4th read through of the most recent draft of TD. I axed the bits I wasn’t keeping, and I cut read more
Car Thoughts
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 25th 2008 by Kathleen
One of my favorite procrastination methods during college was playing Text Twist. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a game that has jumbled letters and you’re supposed to see how many words you can come up with out of that ser read more
Finding An Expert
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 22nd 2008 by Kathleen
Well as you all know, I’m always on the lookout for places where I can ask questions as research for my books. In the past I’ve used Crimespace, Crime Research, assorted professional forums, straight email to various folks in the organi read more
Worldbuilding…Not Just A Sci-Fi Fantasy
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 21st 2008 by Kathleen
When I hear the term “worldbuilding” I automatically think of the science fiction and fantasy genres–stories set in worlds other than our own, be they other planets, other galaxies, other times, or even alternate realities. General read more
Adversity Is The Mother Of…Something
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 20th 2008 by Kathleen
Well my strongest lead on possibly finding an agent to talk to petered out today. A friend of mine has a good friend whom she thought was a retired FBI agent. Turns out he actually used to be Secret Service. So while I was in the shower today, read more
Surprise!
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 20th 2008 by Kathleen
Do you ever surprise yourself as a writer? I always find it interesting to see how my brain works. I used to be very much an inspiration only writer. I would work on a project until the idea for another hit, then I would lay the first aside and p read more
Twitchy
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 17th 2008 by Kathleen
I haven’t written since Saturday, and I’m starting to get a tic. Well not a visible one but a mental one. I’ve been doing a lot of work on my Google Notebook trying to work out the details, record the stuff that’s going to read more
Ch…ch…ch…changes
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 15th 2008 by Kathleen
So I’ve been doing a lot of thinking the last few days about my book since it came to a screeching halt on Saturday. While in the midst of searching out someone to answer some FBI procedural questions, I’ve come to a few conclusions: T read more
Lack of Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 14th 2008 by Kathleen
I haven’t written a word. I’m going to be crazy busy with work the next two weeks catching up on stuff, so I’m not going to push myself. We’ll call it a catch up, refill the well, recharge, and marinating period. DH and read more
In Search of an FBI Brain To Pick
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 12th 2008 by Kathleen
I am not a fatalist. I don’t think that every single thing that happens to us is preordained or unavoidable. However, I do think that some things happen for a reason. My background is clinical psychology, so as a therapist, I am very fami read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 12th 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 39 Daily Goal: Not Met Okay so that’s not spectacular, and it was written in less than five minutes on my way to bed (as we have a flight to catch tomorrow), but I think I finally figured out how the rest of this love scene is going to go read more
Still In Search Of Plot
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 11th 2008 by Kathleen
Well our vacation is drawing to a close. We catch our flight home tomorrow and kiss this lovely winter wonderland goodbye in favor of our own personal steambath (because the 80+ degrees at home in Mississippi after the 20 degrees here in Grand Lake read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 10th 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 181 Daily Goal: Not Met Although 181 is better than 67. I am slowly making my way through this love scene, and I think I’m managing some improvements, so that it’s not just any two people but my specific characters. DH and I had read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 10th 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 67 Daily Goal: Not Met Vacation…not at my computer…uninspired… whatever the excuse, I didn’t make it. read more
In Search of Plot
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 8th 2008 by Kathleen
I won’t bother reiterating my usual complaints about the love scene I’m writing. That’s been documented elsewhere in this blog. But once I do finish this scene, I have a slight problem. I don’t know what happens next. I̵ read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 4th 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 331 Daily Goal: Not Met It was a lousy day for writing. I was in an all day meeting at work, so didn’t even get a chance to turn my brain to the issue of Kensie and Collin until I got home at 5, and then I wound up getting roped into mak read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 3rd 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 1056 Daily Goal: Met Well, as usual I didn’t get as far as I would like. The house was empty with hubs at band practice, but it was slow going. I did lead up to the breakdown, so that’s what I will be working on tomorrow between read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | April 2nd 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 1064 Daily Goal: Met I haven’t caught up from yesterday off, but at least I made today’s goal. read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | March 31st 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 1120 Daily Goal: Met Whew! It was a slow day on the writing front today. But I got through my scene. Tomorrow I get to find another body. Joy. And to try to weave some sexual tension throughout the search. Even more fun. Can you read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | March 30th 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 561 Daily Goal: Not Met Weekly Total: 7270 Weekly Goal: Met Yeah, so you may notice that my overall total just shrunk by 8571–yeah, that was painful! Puts me about 9 days behind. But since I finished that insert, so much of what came a read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | March 29th 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 856 Daily Goal: Not met My writing time today got severely cut into by a crisis with the dishwasher (i.e. it seems to have died and the disassembly took a lot of effort and time AFTER bailing out the stinky water–GROSS). Anyway, I got th read more
Thoughts on Web Presence
A Field of Paper Flowers | March 29th 2008 by Kathleen
Yesterday RtB had an interesting post on whether or not aspiring authors should establish a web presence. In a nutshell, there are pros and cons to doing so just like there are to doing anything. Everyone has different reasons for creating a webp read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | March 28th 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 1131 Daily Goal: Met Well I made it through the lasagna scene rewrite today. I think I did a pretty decent job of parsing in what I could use from the original version and correcting her reactions to make them fit better with the stuff that no read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | March 26th 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 1585 Daily Goal: Met Finally got through the LAST scene of that long inset. 17877 words, 59 pages in that whole section. Of course now we get to the lasagna dinner scene where Collin finally tells the truth about what happened ten years ago. read more
Daily Progress Report
A Field of Paper Flowers | March 25th 2008 by Kathleen
HOC: 1845 Daily Goal: Met Only one more scene to go until the truth comes out. I wanted to write it tonight but I just wasn’t in it. I think I’ve mostly got it laid out. That’ll be tomorrow’s project and then, provided read more
Beginning, End…Middle?
A Field of Paper Flowers | March 25th 2008 by Kathleen
Anyone who has been following my daily progress reports will be aware that a couple of weeks ago, I made the executive decision to insert several scenes between my beginning 80 pages or so and the section of relationship stuff I had written. The re read more
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