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NANO

andrewmckay87 — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:11:36 +0000

just wrote about 6k for nano, yay (up to 11k). This story is so wierd, I didn’t know my two main characters are turning into parent figures

Meeting Today

andrewmckay87 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:55:15 +0000

I just wanted to let the group know, after I counted potential and confirmed members, we have a total of 15 coming today, including us.

Done

andrewmckay87 — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:33:32 +0000

I just re-wrote the entire book to third person, now time to re-edit the entire work.

Show Vs Tell- Writing.com

andrewmckay87 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:32:23 +0000

rework/reword each sentence. Practice using ‘showing.’

Remember: Show don’t Tell!

from http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1487083-Show-Vs-Tell

MEETING

andrewmckay87 — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:05:19 +0000

05/03/11, Just realized I didn’t send out assignments. O’well, I want to focus on the stories getting finished, that way we can start the editting process.

Wow chapter 7 done, but short

andrewmckay87 — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:37:39 +0000

Chapter 7 is done, to my surprise though, it is cut down drastically. I guess I didn’t want the ship ride to be so intense. Is it a problem that the story isn’t going to really start until chapter 8 after 40k or about 133 pages later. So far it was a fun introduction of the character. I once was said the story doesn’t start still after the first 100 pages, and I guess she was right WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Taking a compliment

andrewmckay87 — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:22:32 +0000

I have been getting compliments on my work lately, and just realized I don’t think they are seriously. I don’t know about you, but have you been taking it for granted when someone says your work is good, and think “Yeah right.”

To curve this I have decided to try to just say thankyou and then think of it as 100% positive. Some of you wonder why wouldn’t I think of it this way, but my other profession has trained me, to never trust anyone! I will not go into details on why, but it has saved my life or at least my body more than once.

WIP on 12/30/2010 and alot more transcribing to come

andrewmckay87 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:28:53 +0000

So the transcribing has began again. If you don’t know, I am taking my first manuscript of The Curse of The Gods, and combing that with this novel. The trick with this is keeping it in the genre I am writing, they are both paranormal romance, but one is a lot more action and one is more of an evolving story if that makes any sense. The other trick is taking Gargan, the main character, of the other story and putting him as a secondary character in this story. I kept him in to make a story with him in a later date. The story from that one only changed from looking for his sister, to looking for a gate, so that is easy to fix. I finish chapter 1 of that story into this story in like thirty minutes so considering that it takes almost two hours to write a chapter for me, it is well worth it.

So yeah this combining this is working, I might be a month behind, but I just fished NANO WRIMO at the end of December. If I had this idea before I would have did it. (LOL)

Here is a line from the first book in the IPA series for your amusement. “I couldn’t believe I was doing this with a dragon, I was supposed to be protecting the humans, I guess to protect many a few must die. The humans valiantly tried to free themselves but they were held off the ground so their attempts caused them to just flail helplessly in the air.” -from the IPA series first book when Slade is working with the dragon and not trying to kill each other, o yes they are on the same team, just well you know male dragons and male guardians.

Moving the train along

andrewmckay87 — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:00:38 +0000

My muse has woken back up, and we have been doing steady work, not finishing the current assignments from the workshops, but again we were going to do them when we had time, and we couldn’t write. Well, I am writing, the story is picking up steam. I am even putting nots on the side. I think it is very important to put the notes of what you are editing next to you, and not worrying about it while writing. For example I have these notes on the side now:

I need to change the meditation scene in the ship scene
the guns need to be more modern and not so future like
change one of the females to not yet fall for the other guy, that should be in the second book
change a characters description
expand a scene (I have what scene it is, I just don’t want to share it.)
Then I have other notes that tell me the next book in my dark paranormal romance series which come up while writing. While doing all of this I realized something was still missing, then it hit me, usually I have a college of all my characters right in front of me, sometimes they get printed out sometimes, they are my background, it is nice with windows 7 that I can have the desktop pictures change for more characters. Right now I have 13 pictures of my characters, 4 of them have two looks due to a portal jumping thing.

In our next meeting maybe I will print them out and bring them with. Does anyone else have some secrets to move along the “Train?”

Epic failure

andrewmckay87 — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:12:25 +0000

I just spent the last hour, almost two, trying to design something for the novel, and then realized that I was going to do something else with it, and not use the place I designed.