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• Penelope’s Song Entry: 049 – Prompt: 079 Rejected
• Penelope’s Song Entry: 050 – Prompt: 012 Broken
• Penelope’s Song Entry: 051 – Prompt: 086 Sinful
• Penelope’s Song Entry: 052 – Prompt: 055 Jealous
• Penelope’s Song Entry: 053 – Prompt: 044 Gloomy

I wish someone out there could tell me if my novel is crap or not!  I feel like every five minutes my opinion on the thing changes.  I'm 99% done with the story, or at least the basic structure and I've fallen into that "maybe if I edit the first parts I might get inspired to write the ending" mindset which I know from other people's journals is a NO NO!

Help me!!!  I'm creatively going 100mph but I feel like I'm driving on the wrong side of the road!

What's the meanest thing anyone has ever done to you or one of your friends?

My main character is struggling with a mean girl at a party.  I want to put in an incident that will basically make my main character cry, but at the same time will show everyone else around her the true colors of the mean girl.

It has to be something super dramatic.

Thanks!

PattyB

I've been working hard on getting back into writing since I'm going to try to do NaNoWriMo this year.

Check out Penelope's Song, the story of an alaskan widow who finds love in the most unlikely place.

I just realized that I haven't written much in my journal lately...probably because I've got so much other stuff going on.

My big obsession at the moment other than my new taste for Atomic Fire Ball Candies, is to get Jason's hat finished.  I'm knitting him a hat with earflaps.  Sad that I'm doing this as it's getting warmer, but oh well...he can always wear it on our camping trips.

Other than that I've been redesigning Zoe Watson Novels [dot] Com.  I'm turning it girly with a few different shades of pink borrowed from one of my favorite site designers and tweaked to fit my site :)

If you're interested, I've posted something for everyone to read in the zoewatsonnovelscommunity. 

That's the way I feel this morning...My writing is going well (see my writing journal) and everything else seems to be going well. Work is going great, and life at home, of course isn't 100% perfect, but it's as perfect as it's been for over the last year! :)

Please please please don't take this as me being cocky...

I think I'm a lot better of a writer in someways than I think I am. When I compare myself to other writers who have about as much of experience as I do, sometimes I feel completely humbled and sometimes I tell myself, wow I'm damn good considering all things. I think though that my trouble is consistancy. I have moments where I swear I'm a poet with the language I chose to write with and the way I put together verbage of a story. And there are sometimes where I swear a first grader is trying desparately to put a sentence together! It makes for an interesting mix of fiction!

Someone was talking about having trouble writing in their blog so they made a list of generic topics to write about...something that can be used for any day of the year...








From:  http://shrigley.blogspot.com/2007/…

1. New words that I have learnt that day.
2. Mind maps of my goals for the week, month, year.
3. Creative writing such as poems and short stories.
4. Mental stresses and tensions that I notice I feel during the day, the thoughts I felt that caused those stresses and alternative more positive thoughts in order to reduce those stresses for the future.
5. Sketches to exercise the right side of the brain.
6. Reviews of movies, music or television etc.
7. Books I want to read in the future, movies I wish to see and music I wish to listen to etc.
8. General “dear diary” prose including my observations, thoughts and feelings relating to the day.
9. Any physical tensions and what may have caused them.
10. Ideas for my blog.

So my writing is going magnificently. I just added another 2800 words to the total number of words I've written so far this year. I'm up to 36,479 out of 180,000 words I want to write this year. That's about 20% which is right on track. I want to do about 25% of the writing each quarter of the year and I've still got some catching up to do in the first three months of the year to do that...since I added another project. :)

Anyway everything else is going well. Family is good and I'm super happy with DB so there isn't much else to say right now :)