I just finished writing Year of the Dog ! It had a massive plot hole that I had to fix which turned out to be more work than I expected. Here’s a snippet: “Hey, Auntie Nell.” He wrapped his arms around her, bussing her on the cheek and breathing in pikake flowers and shortbread cookies. And suddenly he was nine years old again, and her solid presence had made his chaotic world stable once more. “What are you doing here?” He usually took her to dinner on Wednesday nights, but today was Tuesday. The edges of her smile faltered a little before brightening right back up again. “What, I can’t visit my nephew?” She angled around him to enter his home. “Is this your new house? Looks lovely.” Which was a blatant lie, because the fixer-upper was barely livable, much less acceptable to a neat-freak like his aunt. She also left four matching pink and purple floral suitcases on the stoop behind her. Only then did Ashwin notice the cab driver standing slightly to the side of the walkway. “Can ...
Hi! This will be my personal diary to let people know whatever's new with me and my writing. It will also be good for me to be able to track my writing progress. This New Year, I've been convicted to finish my current manuscript, so I'm really taking advantage of my unemployment to write and finish my ChickLit novel by the end of January. I realize that just because I finish it doesn't mean God will allow it to be accepted for publication, but I think I'd like to at least complete it, to know that I could do it. I also wanted to see if I could really keep a full-time writer's hours. It's been tough, so far, but also lots of fun. Hopefully by my next post, my Chicklit "The Corinthians Rules" (working title) will be done! Camy