I have another confession to make: I have trouble with my follow-through. This is true both in life (I think it’s why I can’t seem to reach my goal weight or balance my checkbook) and in my writing. More than one mostly finished manuscript languishes in my collection. Two...

… But somewhere between sitting in traffic for an hour and driving up I-17 at 20 mph, I forgot what I wanted to say. Maybe it’ll come back to me for a future post. I didn’t get a lot of writing done these last couple of days. I did,...

First off, I want to thank my regular readers. Apparently there are two of you out there. My blog had two hits for each of the last two days, even though I didn’t post a thing. Maybe I’m wrong, but it makes me think there are some people out there...

Hello. My name is Arlene, and I have a confession. Meg & Matt are real lookers … and I don’t mean that in a good way. I’m not kidding. I’ve noticed that Meg & Matt spend a lot of time looking — at each other, at the ground, at...

Not much new to report here, but I thought I’d give you a quick update on my progress. I wrote 401 words on Meg & Matt’s story today, bringing my total since I started tracking on Jan. 17 to 19,855. That’s nearly 20K — one-fifth of my 100K-word goal....

It’s been a slow couple of days on the writing front. I managed to squeeze out about 200 words Monday and 400 Tuesday. Today would have been better, had I not spent most of the day in my La-Z-Boy with a migraine-like headache. My head hurt so badly that...

Even though I had to work at the “day job” (which is really an afternoon/evening job),  this has been a productive weekend. Today, I wrote more than 2,000 words on Meg and Matt’s story. Yesterday, I went to plot group and had fun chatting about Meg, Matt, Brad, Erin,...

I love my iBook and wouldn’t trade it for anything — well, except perhaps a bright, shiny new MacBook Pro like the one a couple of my NARWA sisters have. 😀 However, I’ve discovered something this week: I still like writing things out longhand, with a spiral-bound notebook and...

What to do, what to do? I’m at a bit of a loss again. After writing more than 1,000 words on Meg and Matt’s story yesterday, I’ve hit a block. If I take a page of advice from the “write quickly and often” book, I’ll sit down and make...

I didn’t get much writing done this weekend, opting instead to spend a romantic weekend with the Boyfriend. I did, however, get the chance to do a little reading. The February issue of RWR contained an intriguing article titled “Speed as an Antidote to Writer’s Block.” The gist is that...