Category Archives: Rough Draft

Day 19

Posted on April 4, 2014 by rachelsparling

Another chapter complete! The elation is hard to express here. I’m slowly picking away at what’s left. Except there is a problem with this chapter. I had written about 500 words of it before hand and I realized I couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Day 18

Posted on March 29, 2014 by rachelsparling

Writing is highly therapeutic. I spent the last bit working on a chapter. I exceeded my goal again this week which makes me happy, and I completed a chapter as well! One down, another 7.5 to go (if you count … Continue reading →

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Day 17

Posted on March 26, 2014 by rachelsparling

I can’t say that I did any actual writing today. Instead I spent some time going through my outline, fixing up a few things here and there, and adding some more detailed notes to certain chapters for when I finally … Continue reading →

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Day 16

Posted on March 12, 2014 by rachelsparling

It is a snowstorm of snowstorm out there today. Again. It’s great how we get nice spring weather for about two days and then winter decides to slap you in the face with one hell of a snowstorm, reminding us … Continue reading →

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Day 15

Posted on March 4, 2014 by rachelsparling

I thought I would get back into it sooner but unfortunately it took longer than I expected to recover from that job. I’m glad I have, and several things came up last week that prevented me from being in the … Continue reading →

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Day 14

Posted on January 31, 2014 by rachelsparling

Okay, so some writing got done tonight. It proved a good distraction to my constant rising stress levels. I only did this weeks goal as feeling completely brain fried felt inadvisable at this time. It’s good though because it provides … Continue reading →

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Day 13

Posted on January 23, 2014 by rachelsparling

More writing completed! This weeks goal was doubled. I must say I feel both accomplished and proud of myself for getting so much done. I have realized I have limits though. Doing my weekly goal, I still feel energized afterwards. … Continue reading →

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Day 12

Posted on January 19, 2014 by rachelsparling

So initially I wasn’t going to do any writing today and my plan was to catch up next week. Well that didn’t happen. I found myself sitting at my computer waiting for an insane number of updates to complete, that … Continue reading →

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Day 11

Posted on January 4, 2014 by rachelsparling

After the need to be alone, I ended up getting some more writing done. The work was mostly to complete a chapter with a scene I’d written earlier. I believe it was the last part that I updated about. I … Continue reading →

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Day 10

Posted on December 30, 2013 by rachelsparling

I had some more time to write today. It is part of what will be a very interesting chapter. It’s the most pivotal scene in that chapter, and probably the second or third overall in the manuscript. A new character … Continue reading →

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