I find it interesting that I seem to fall into the “pit” at the same time with each manuscript. I call it the black hole of Chapter 3. It doesn’t matter what kind of book I’m writing, Chapter 3 seems to give me all sorts of problems with pacing and general believability. It’s like my characters throw up a roadblock and derail me. I guess it’s better than getting to the end of the book and realizing that the entire plot needs to be tossed, huh? But, I still hate it. It makes me doubt myself too much.

I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel on this one, although my pacing still feels a bit off to me, but I’m looking forward to getting past it and torturing my characters some more.

Which chapters are your pitfalls?

Yes, this statement should come with a warning. Next week my boys will be home from school. All. Week. Long.

Don’t get me wrong, I love having them around, but I do have to wonder what this will do to my writing productivity. Hopefully the week won’t end up a total wash.

And while they’re home for the entire week, I have to whine and pine about how I wish we could have taken a mini-vacation somewhere. Anywhere. Poor, poor me. Let’s hope the weather holds out for next week. If it snows, I’m going to jump off my second story deck.

For now, I’m wracking my brain for fun things to do so the boys won’t drive me nutso with their daily litany of “I’m bored!”.

My husband and I were watching a news show the other day where they were discussing the Paparazzi…and how one good picture of Britney Spears can net them one million dollars.

One million dollars???!?!?

Heck, I’m in the wrong business!

Anyone know of any good Paparazzi jobs available in their area?

(Psst….look at my progress meter! It keeps going up! :cheer:)

Is anyone else sick of this crazy weather we’ve been having? One day it’s sunny and in the 60s the next it is gray skies and wind with a bit of flurries added to the mix. I wish it would just hurry up and decide on Spring!

It’s day five of the 70 Days of Sweat challenge, and so I’ll happily direct you to my sidebar to check out my progress meter.

If I can keep up this pace (and I’m pretty sure I can), I should have a first draft done by the end of the 70 days!

Here’s to sunny skies and fingers flying furiously over the keyboard!

70 Days of Sweat officially begins today! Good luck everyone!

I plan to keep track of my progress here on the blog, so check out the progress meter in my sidebar. I managed 5 1/2 new pages today….not too shabby. We’ll see how I do tomorrow.

It’s a beautiful day here. So, far now, I’m putting my laptop away and going outside to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. I’ll take that as my reward for a job well done.