Author, Nerd, and Oxford Comma Fan
The final week of Writer In Motion 2021 is here! Okay, okay, I’m a couple days late with my final version. For the final stretch, each participant was paired with an editor. I was matched up with Justine Manzano, who …
Here we are, Round 3 of Writer In Motion 2021. Last year’s WIM was my first CP experience. The terror. Yikes. Okay, so this year was much easier to just click send on that CP message. There was still the …
Here we are, the second week! You’ve seen my ultra-messy, write-until-words-stop, what-even-is-plot-anyway?! post. That was then. This is now. And now… Well, now we’re cooking but we’re still missing some ingredients. Or something. I don’t know, please don’t judge me, …
Writer in Motion is a writing project that shows how a short story progresses “from prompt to polished,” and the rule is that the first draft is posted as a first draft. No editing allowed. I struggle with sharing work …
I’m a writer, not a sharer. I scribble down my ideas, then tuck them away in a file, drawer, notebook, folder somewhere. Never to be seen by anyone but me. Especially not a first draft. If I know something will …
I’m thrilled with the help my assigned editor, Tyler, provided to clean up my story. I had loose ends and wayward sentences galore, but they were able to point me in exactly the right direction to clear things up. Adding …
The CPs have spoken! With their input, I shuffled around some of the bits that were dragging down the pace, cut a couple of pieces that just didn’t belong, and streamlined the piece a bit more. Want to see what …
Self-edits. Oof. I started over my 1,000-word count limit, so my first sweep through my Writer in Motion Unedited First Draft was checking for repetition, removing anything that was filler, and striking the random side quests I always tend to …
And here we are, with an unedited first draft. I let the prompt image hang out in my head overnight, struggling to figure out an angle. My husband told me to stop worrying because I’d come up with something. I …
The prompt has dropped (photo to the right) and Writer in Motion, August 2020 has kicked off. My first impressions of the writing prompt photo were: Wow, pretty. That’s super remote. Looks relaxing. And lonely. But kind of easy, like, …