Celestial Chicken Blog

I finished my story tonight.  I needed to meet up the scene I was writing yesterday with the ending of the story, which I wrote some weeks ago.  And I did that tonight at the Write-In.  I managed to produce another 4K words, which seems to be the norm for me at Write-Ins.  I finished [...]

We only have three more days and a few hours to novel. After all the anticipation of waiting for November, now it is nearly gone. The end brings on its own sadness; this month has been filled with emotional and technical challenges, difficulties with time management and remembering to eat and take showers, and dealing [...]

Yesterday when I went to pick up my daughter from the Teen Advisory Board at our local library (where she is an active member), I stopped to talk to the youth librarian about my husband and I being their Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus at their open house in a few weeks.  The first thing [...]

I reached the 50K goal tonight at 5:40 p.m.    I’ve been writing off and on all day, I only had about 3500 to go when I got up this morning.    The story isn’t done, so I’ll keep working on it until it is.    I don’t anticipate it getting over 60K when it [...]

I was talking to LR at the write-in the other day about how many of my female main characters never have parents, or have only one parent and that one is dysfunctional.    I don’t know if I do it for the dramatic effect, or because I have some personal psychoses to work out, which [...]

Week three of Nano started yesterday.  Or was it the day before.  Not sure, but anyway, we are in week three.  I’m still at just over 37K as I’ve not really had time to write since the Wednesday write-in, where I posted 4K words.
I won’t have time to write today, unless it is later tonight, [...]

Tonight’s local write-in was a success, as far as I’m concerned.  I got another 4K done, I’m up to 37K total.  Others did well too, and we had a total of 8 people at the write-in over the course of four or five hours. One of our writers, a teenager, was having trouble with her [...]

I haven’t written a word on my novel since I came home Friday night.
This after I managed 1000 words on a bumpy airline flight from Denver to St. Louis! It is so much harder to write at home.
It’s not that the plot isn’t there, it is, but getting quiet time without interruptions and without seeing [...]

I’m finally back home after almost a week away. I managed to get about 20K words or more done while I was gone, which is just amazing. In years past I’ve not been as productive in that week I’ve been gone. I’m very pleased with my progress, and my story. I am at a bit [...]

I’m sitting at a Barnes and Noble in Boulder, Colorado.  It has a huge cafe.  It has not one single power outlet in the whole place!!
I thought my B&N at home was bad, with only one outlet available.
This sucks big time. On the other hand, the Panera Bread/BreadCo. always has enough outlets.  There are probably [...]