Wordle
Posted: October 20, 2008 Filed under: Writers Write | Tags: wordle.net, writers, writing Leave a comment »I found the coolest thing yesterday. It’s a website at http://wordle.net/ I entered text, and a program made a picture out of the words I used. The more times a word appeared in the text, the larger that word appeared in the picture. And… it’s free.
I used text from a blurb I wrote about my manuscript. It’s the sort of the thing that might appear on the inside cover flap of a book. Wordle made an interesting image out of my story.
Rewards
Posted: October 18, 2008 Filed under: Joined at the Heart, Writers Write | Tags: writers, writing 2 Comments »Bacon celebrated my finish by gifting me with a big set of Pilot G2 gel pens. I love these things. I’m very stuck on the pink one. I wish I could buy a box of pink, but the good colors only come one to a set. I can’t wait to get started with it.
I’m not the only lover of pink at our house. Cherry spent her birthday money on a new pink fleece hoody from The Gap. Her old one was really worn out. It’s difficult to be the mom and let her pick her own, but she did a great job. Our next stop was Borders. Cowgirl Crisp sent a gift card for the bookstore. Cherry is really my kid. Nothing thrills her more than new books. She bought three of Erin Hunter’s Warriors books, one of them in manga. She made all of her own decisions at Borders too. Bacon really wanted to help, but he left it to Cherry.
I’m a football widow tonight. We came home to discover that both OU (University of Oklahoma) and UT (Texas) were on television in back-to-back games. It looks like I have all evening to work on the manuscript.
Finished It
Posted: October 17, 2008 Filed under: Goals, Writers Write | Tags: writers, writing 5 Comments »This afternoon at 4:30 p.m. I finished the rough draft of the novel I began a year ago. In it’s current form it is 208 pages long and contains 58,489 words. For those of you who are publishing savy, I know that’s not long enough. I have a plan.
This draft is sort of like a dress on a hanger. The zippers and seams are finished, but there’s no body filling it out yet. I hope when the body comes along, the dress will be worthy of dinner out on the town. Let’s all pray I haven’t written a house dress, or as my Daddy used to say, a moo-moo.
A few days ago I wrote, I’m a What’s Next? sort of person. So, here’s my calendar:
- Tomorrow and the next day, I read every word I’ve written over and over. It may be painful. Be ready to hear screaming and gnashing of teeth.
- Three days from now, I begin rewriting. The goal is 10 pages a day for 30 days. If you’re like Bacon, you have already done the math and know that 10 x 30 ≠ 208. That’s where the extra words and pages come in. I said I had a plan, didn’t I?
- I’m still too chicken to let you in on part three of the schedule, but it’s coming.
Stay tuned for more details.
