Category Archives: Novel

Book 2 Again

Posted on February 7, 2015 by rachelsparling

I had about ten minutes and instead of editing I decided to write a quick blurb in Book 2. I knew it wasn’t enough time to get through a chapter, but I wanted to get something down. It is barely … Continue reading →

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Book 2

Posted on February 6, 2015 by rachelsparling

I didn’t have time yesterday to post much of anything, but I wrote a half scene. There was a bit of information I wanted to make sure made it into the book, and I had part of the scene going … Continue reading →

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Day 5 – Editing Rough Draft

Posted on January 27, 2015 by rachelsparling

Time was on my side today as I was able to edit one more chapter. It was short so I guess that helped as well. It was entirely descriptive, in the mind of the character, as well as narrative to … Continue reading →

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Day 4 – Editing Rough Draft (my 100th post!)

Posted on January 16, 2015 by rachelsparling

Well it took a while but I got another chapter edited. It was a short one so it took very little time, but I feel like it’s lacking something. I can’t quite put my finger on it. It’s possible it’s … Continue reading →

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A New Year

Posted on January 6, 2015 by rachelsparling

I hope that everyone had a great time ringing in the new year and enjoyed their holidays. I realize my plan was to start editing in January, but as it stands, I’ve had no time to do so. A number … Continue reading →

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Day 3 – Editing Rough Draft

Posted on December 16, 2014 by rachelsparling

So initially I hadn’t planned on doing any work today. It wasn’t until my brother sent me a message about how his program just suddenly stopped working that I decided I would play around with Timeline. So I started putting … Continue reading →

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Time line fun

Posted on December 3, 2014 by rachelsparling

As a winner of the National Novel Writing Month, you get a bunch of discount codes for a variety of different writing and organizing programs. My brother started telling me about one in particular which immediately grabbed my attention, it’s … Continue reading →

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Day 2 – Editing Rough Draft

Posted on December 1, 2014 by rachelsparling

Onto the second/third day of editing. I have completed another chapter. This is the third chapter in the first book and it is coming along, slowly but surely. There is a lot that I found wrong with it and I … Continue reading →

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Day 1 – Editing Rough Draft

Posted on November 29, 2014 by rachelsparling

I have started editing! Well actually, to be totally honest, I started last week and completed chapter 1. I did not have time to post that and I finally got around to doing chapter 2. Chapter 1 and 2 are … Continue reading →

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Day 21 – National Novel Writing Month

Posted on November 21, 2014 by rachelsparling

It’s official! I have completed 50,000 words! I am most certainly excited at this accomplishment and I am very much looking forward to editing everything that I did this month and prior to it. I found this challenge very rewarding … Continue reading →

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