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Saturday Work

September 10, 2022 by eileentroemel, posted in Life, Writing

Today I paid bills, cut up veggies, and worked on holiday gifts. I wanted to write. I’ve got a lot in my head for this story I’m working on. When I do sneak in some writing time, I just read the last bit I wrote and jump back in.

This afternoon, I went on Facebook to do the Author talk in my group and then chatted with a couple of the authors. I again worked on holiday gifts and wrote a little.

We had supper. Yeah we don’t really lead exciting lives. We ate and then watched Secrets of the Zoo Tampa. Hubby and daughter went to their spaces and I got to write.

Here I am 3000 words later… the book is 26K and I’m excited where my story is at. I like how my characters are moving along and I like how the story is going. Next up – kidnapping.

Once they’ve actually been kidnapped, I have to decide how long they will be held and if they will be tortured or what will happen while they are held. Are they taken off world? If they are, how will my characters escape and get back to where they belong? What sorts of worlds will they land on? So many options… 😀

gray and white short coated cat on brown wooden table top

Energy to Write!

September 9, 2022 by eileentroemel, posted in Life, Writing

It’s the weekend! It’s been a long week and the hardest part for me – finding the energy to write. I want to write but my mind shuts down after a long day of work and then family and then having an hour or so to write.

Tonight, my family stuck around later than I expected but I still added about 1600 words to my story. I love where the story is going. I love what’s going on. I can see the next several chapters and I want to just write all day and all night.

My hope is after I pay bills, set up a takeover, and do several tasks on my book to do list, I’ll have the energy and time to work on this story.

Right now, I know what the next chapter will be. I can see the scenes in my head like a movie playing – I just need to write them. Unfortunately it’s almost midnight and my eyes are saying no more. I’m off to bed with the hopes I get more done than I expect.

photo of red panda sleeping on tree branch

I Wrote Some

September 8, 2022 by eileentroemel, posted in Life, Writing

Tonight I finished two scenes and started a third. I’m so tired I can barely keep my eyes open. I wrote only 822 words putting me about 21,500 words for the book.

I’m super tired. I woke up late and rushed through my morning routine. I had five meetings today. It’s exhausting. I have all these meetings and then in between I try to do the tasks I need to do but I fall short.

I cut one meeting short today. Basically showed her how to do it and said, okay get that data entered and then we’ll meet early next week to go over the rest of the details. I think I was at my limit for meetings.

The bright spot of my day – someone sent me flowers. A faculty sent me the most beautiful bouquet of flowers. It brightened my whole day and lifted my spirits.

Now I’m headed to bed. I hope tomorrow I’m in less pain and less tired so I can work on this story.

Too Tired…. maybe

September 7, 2022September 7, 2022 by eileentroemel, posted in Life, Writing

Last night I was irritated with my eyes. I thought what the hell is going on. I packed up my computer and tried to decide if I could write out a chapter in one of my Rocket books. I reached to take my glasses off and realized…. I wasn’t wearing my reading glasses. This is why everything was so blurry.

So I thought I’d just do an early night but I grabbed my computer and didn’t stop writing until I’d written 10,600 words. It was a good writing day!

Today I returned to my day job after the long weekend. I wanted to do nothing more than pull out my computer to work on my story. I didn’t. I worked and made a lot of progress with a bunch of things.

Tonight I wrote. I picked up exactly where I left off and KNEW what was coming. I managed to get almost 3,600 words written tonight. I’d keep writing but I have to be up early to go into work.

I’ve gotten my characters through one life jarring moment. I have a few more in mind – we’ll see how they want it to go. I’m at a little over 19K for word count and I might be about a third of the way through the book.

Back to Work tomorrow

September 5, 2022 by eileentroemel, posted in Life, Writing

It’s been a busy weekend. Yesterday I started a new series. The covers called to me and I’m able to fit an aspect I was toying with into the story. I started writing yesterday. I hoped today would be a good day for writing all day but I’ve had some distractions.

I had other things to get done this morning. While I hoped to get them done in an hour, they took up most of my morning. Ironically, as I was trying to focus on one task, several others came up. I made some decisions on things I was considering.

I sound all mysterious but it’s not. I made some decisions about some books and how they’re distributed. While it was fresh in my mind, I took some steps to change how they are distributed.

Finally I got back to writing. I’ve added more than a chapter today so I’m pleased with my progress. Today I wrote about 6400 taking my total for the book to a little over 10,600. It’s a good start to the book. It might also mean I’m doing one of two things – adding too much detail or the story will be longer than I usually write.

It’s early for me to stop and frankly the words are flowing but I’ve got a headache and my vision is blurry so I think I’ll try for an early night. We stirred up a lot of dust and crud yesterday when we organized the craft room. My eyes have been itchy and sore all day so it might be two fold – overuse and allergies.

Editing

August 29, 2022 by eileentroemel, posted in Life, Writing

Last night I edited the short story for the anthology and got that off my plate. I don’t have to think about that now – well except for promoting the anthology.

Over the weekend the family did a bunch of freezing and canning. Vicki also baked a few things. We canned beets and carrots. We froze watermelon, pineapple, and nectarines.

Tonight I have to read my daughter’s master’s paper and then work on my client’s editing. I’ll enjoy both in different ways.

As for writing, now comes the task of picking my next project. What will it be? I’d like to work on an Ava M book. I’ve looked at some of them I have started and there are two which stand out to me. Avian Allure and the third Sexy Sinivites. Either of them are interesting enough. The question is which will call to me. Which characters will tell me their story?

Now I’ve narrowed it to those two but the reality is, when I go to write, if the story flows. I could read through what I already have written and come to the end and have nothing. The characters are just like – nope, not today.

This week will probably be spent editing and promoting books. I’ll see if I stick to the editing all week. I’m in the mood to write so writing will probably occur.

Heavy black plume of smoke streams southeast from Sendai, Japan

Eighteen Chapters

August 26, 2022 by eileentroemel, posted in Life, Writing

Last night sucked. I was all geared up to write and my energy just bottomed out. Tonight, tonight has been sooo good. I wrote over 5400 words and finished Sacrificed to the Sea Monster!

Oh the ending is good – I like it a lot. It’s not a cliffhanger but it lets the reader know there’s more coming. I’m really pleased to be done with this one.

The story dropped onto the page like it was meant to. I like my characters and I like the plot. It’s a rough draft and I need to edit the heck out of this thing but I like this one.

It’s done and I’ve sent the rough draft off to my beta readers. I hope they like it. Oh, I’m happy with this one.

I’ve got takeovers to do for the next two days and I’ve got a short story to edit by the 2nd of September. I also have client work. So not a lot of writing for me in the next week. I say that and I’m laughing at myself because I know I’ll go looking for something. I have a couple more Ava books started which need to be finished. The question is – which characters will talk to me the loudest.

So Close!

August 25, 2022August 29, 2022 by eileentroemel, posted in Life, Writing

All I thought about all day was I wanted to come home and write. I got through my day and got my day job tasks organized. I spent time with the family. Now, I’ve written the next part of the Sea Monster book.

I’ve spent the last hour writing and adding details and thinking more about the story. I find my energy lagging and all I want to do is go to sleep. I know there’s more there. I can feel it but my brain is only doing this… blah blah blah blah…

So I wrote 1200 words tonight. It’s small but it’s progress. I think I’ll take some tylenol and my evening meds and try to sleep.

It isn’t often I get this worn down but day job has been SUPER stressful over the last couple weeks. Today I worked on campus and by the time I left work, my joints were screaming.

Two More Chapters

August 25, 2022 by eileentroemel, posted in Life, Writing

Today was supposed to be a writing day so I could finish my Sea Monster story. That didn’t happen. I spent most of the day working on promotions and organization stuff. Oh and let’s not forget the fun task of working on budget.

So no fun writing for me during my day off. My people hung out with me later than normal so I didn’t get to start writing until later. Now it’s 12:30 (oy) and I’ve just started the second to last chapter of my story.

Tonight, I wrote 4300 words and the whole book hit 50K plus a bit more. I think the last two chapters will be shorter than the others – at least that is my sense of them. I could be very very wrong.

I’m excited and happy with what was written tonight. I may need to expand one section or explain one thing when I start in tomorrow. I’ll reread and decide. For now, it’s good.

Maybe tomorrow night I can finish the story but it depends on how long people stick around. I’m excited to finish this. I cannot wait to hear what my beta readers think of it.

One Down, Three to Go

August 24, 2022 by eileentroemel, posted in Writing

It’s been a bad day for me. I woke up at 3:30 this morning with my joints all screaming. Moving was a matter of balancing the pain in my body. I got cold. It’s not like it’s zero degrees but my blanket was tangled around me rather than covering me.

I attempted to go back to sleep. That didn’t work until like 6:00 and of course I had to get up for work. My day job is busy busy busy right now. Also we’ve had a lot of turn over in people so it means we’re juggling other people’s work as well as our own. I’m sure this will ease soon but for right now, it’s not great at my day job.

To make matters worse, late afternoon I got too hot and a migraine started. My ears are still ringing. I’m hoping this is lack of sleep. But mostly a craptastic day.

Tonight though, I wrote. I had four chapters to write. Well 4,000 words later, I’m down to only 3 chapters to write.

I have tomorrow off and I hope I’ll be able to knock out more chapters but we’ll see. I have appointments to go to in the afternoon.