Daily Dealings 23

You can pretty much never edit enough. Enough said. I know I've looked over my second book but now I'm doing the same for my first book once again. I'm plenty sure my first book has it's mistakes and so before I put my second book out there I'm trying to correct the little things I can in my first book.
But my editing advice for today-a few tips and tricks I've learned:
*When editing, use a different font.
-Seriously. Seeing words you've written in one font then editing it in another makes a world of difference (something I discovered a little too late. Wish I had known to do that before I put my first book out there).
*When editing, speak out loud.
-You can have a lot of fun with this one. You don't have to talk out loud in the same voice you always use. You can have a little fun and do it in an accent. Now that really makes me pay attention to what I'm editing.
*Tip Three, when editing, print it out.
-When writing, I find I can type really fast and get my thoughts out all in one sweeping rush. When editing however, it's really helpful to go print out the words and with a pen look over and mark what needs fixing. You're much more likely to catch mistakes and also spruce up the existing work. :) All things said and all advice given, that's my preachin' for the day. :)   Peace yall. :)

Daily Dealings 22

Dang, 22 days already? Time goes by quick. In any case, the book cover is getting worked on by my sis Eden and I'm actually going to a cover she sent me and replace for my first book, so I hope all things work out. :)

Daily Dealings 21

Backgrounds. No-I'm not talking about what's in the back of a picture, I'm talking about the background of people's lives in a story. Usually most of the material never gets touched, but if I don't have it, creating the imaginary world isn't nearly as fun. :)  So that's what I did today for this series I'm working on. It's kind of ridiculous because there are 12 important main people, but they don't all come in at the same time. So I'm going through everything about they're names, and their family members, and school, and jobs and any other background information that I can think of to make them more real. I like the fact I can take something imaginary and make it into a real story-one of my favorite things to do. :)  So that's my work for the day.

Daily Dealings 20

I shut this computer off on the verge of falling to sleep when I realized I almost forgot to make my post! No worries though, I'm making it now obviously. :) So yeah, I went all the way through the book, just have to keep a cover now :)

Daily Dealings 19

It's nearing midnight and I haven't made this post for today so I decided I needed to jump on it. I'm actually editing right now and I'm nearing the end of my book with 25 pages left to go through. I'll be sure to finish tonight but technically not on this day because once midnight hits it's tomorrow like it always is. :) So yeah, I feel very excited. Got to get back to the work I love-story telling!

Daily Dealings 18

Alright, alright, I'll be honest here. I didn't do the remainder of the book, but I did get to 250, so I did 25 pages today, in case anybody wants to know my work efforts for today. But very very very soon I'll be done! I can't wait. Next I suppose I need to get a new book cover quick!

Daily Dealings 17

As day one of my official summer start, I did something crazy. I completely went through 100 pages. Yup. You heard, or rather, read, correctly. 100. That's put me at 225. Less then 100 left and I'm done! Halla! Heck, maybe I'll finish tomorrow! That would be pretty great. :) All hopes high!

Daily Dealing 16

16. Reminds me of that awesome movie 16 Candles. I guess I'm thinking about candles right now because it's my sister's birthday and we don't have a lighter to light her cake. (This problem will be fixed shortly and she shall have her candles on fire pretty soon now). Anyways, today was the actual graduation of high school graduation, with the whole ceremony, cap, gown and crowds-the whole shebang. (My feet have blisters!)
I am so tired. Then I started freaking out because I almost forgot to do this blog and do something for my books. Well, then I realized, I have been working on my book all day practically-in my head. (I do this a lot, pretty much everywhere, sometimes I think about the characters, or new books, or funny scenarios, anything really). But today I had my notebook with me in the car and everywhere else and I was writing all sort of plot directions and characters in it. So I didn't get to any editing, but I got to the directional business of the following books in this series. :) And that's my work for the day. :)

Daily Dealings 15

So psyched yall! Got to page 125 in my editing, but even important I finally got my plot line to flow for my other one, so this is great yo! A lot of times, all the writing is the easy part, it's knowing what to write and how the order of all the events will happen that can be the hardest.
This is why I suggest to any writers yourself that to avoid having writer's block, know exactly how you want you book to play out and I guarantee the writing process will be much more enjoyable once you are sure and  once you know what you're going to write. My advice for today. :)

Daily Dealings 14

Someone said to me today, "Don't you wish that once you have an idea for a book that it's all done and written by morning?"
Heck yeah, I wish that. Unfortunately it doesn't get to work that way (unless the book is really short and I stay up the whole night), but that would be amazing. I suppose if I got a three wishes from a genie one of them would be that anytime I wanted a book done start to finish by the next day it would happen (the one of my other wishes would be to obviously wish for infinite wishes :)   ).
But like pretty much everything, it's all done in increments. You don't have a body without the organs that aren't without the cells. You don't get the athletic body you wish for, you get the body you work for. You can't have the book without the pages, you can't have the pages without those paragraphs and you can't have those paragraphs without the sentences made up by the words.  You don't get the book you wish for, you get the book you work for.
That's one of my thoughts anyways, and for today I again was working on an outline. :)

Daily Dealings 13

Oh, 13! Everybody says it's unlucky, but I disagree (and besides, when others hear unlucky, all I hear is the lucky part :)  .) So today I didn't so much work on the editing as I did on the outlining of the next book, because I won't usually write unless I know what I'm going to write. :) That's what I have to report on for my work today anyways. :)

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So, today I went and saw Star Trek, which was so amazing by the way. I will not however reveal any spoilers, but I will say because I went to see the movie I didn't have as much time to work on my book. (oh well because that movie was worth it :)  )  In any case, I did however complete five more pages.
P.S. I'm thinking of giving my posts the title of Daily Dealings just because it has more of it a ring to it  instead. :)

Daily Success 11!!!

Tomorrow I finish high school and today I got to page 105! I did some writing today too though. I guess I feel super excited because, again, as I just mentioned, I finish high school tomorrow. I'm so psyched. And because of summer coming up, I kind of want to do some insane writing this summer. I don't know my exact goals yet, but I'll let yall know once I do. :)

Daily Success 10

Hey, what do you know, it's the tenth day and I got to my 100 goal. Yay! Also, spent a really funny day with my sisters. Oh, we came up with some of the best lines for this girl character in another series I'm working on, thought I would die of laughter! Happy Days. :)

Daily Success 9

Okay okay, so I didn't get to page one hundred, today was a distracting day. But there is always tomorrow, and my goal is to get to page one hundred which I will so totally do. I kind of can't wait because then I'm a third of the way through (there's over 300 hundred pages in this one) and plus one of the drama filled parts is in the following chapters I'm looking over tomorrow, so I can't wait.

Daily Success Eight

I did it! I did it! Boo-yah! I did it! I edited to page 75 now I'll give myself a high five! Hmmm...this makes me want to try and get to page 100 tomorrow. Hopefully I succeed!
Current note, in the second book, a Halloween party comes up (get the pun with the Boo-yah at the beginning there now?)  and expect some drama to go down (once I come out with the book, and readers get to this Halloween part, I hope they enjoy this second pun about how the drama will go "down").
I've been thinking about changing one of what the characters dresses up as. I'm currently stuck between a Pop Hippy or a Porcelain Doll. If anyone wants to give me their thoughts I'll be happy to hear. Maybe by hearing other thoughts I'll decide if that really is the direction I was originally heading in. Or maybe I'll put it to vote. Whichever costume gets the most votes (leave your say by leaving a comment) I'll decide to use that one, because honestly, I can go either way here no problem.
The other thing is that I've already written which costume the character dresses up in, although I won't say which, but I''m really thinking about a rewrite. So be sure to leave your opinions in the comments and I'll try and tally up the votes. :)

Daily Success 7

I'm at page fifty now. Somehow that number feels very complete to me. It's kind of putting me into the mood to jump ahead and do 25 pages tomorrow so I'll get to page 75, another number that feels complete to me, and you know what? I think I will.  :)

Daily Success Six

I know it's day six, but ironically I've successfully completed six more pages today. I'm not exactly spending a lot of time on this, but I know this will add up over time. Today however I've also been brainstorming about these characters in another series I'm going to write. Someday I'll reveal more about that. :) Until then, cheers :) 

Daily Success 5

Wow, a whole five days I've stuck to this. That's a record for me. :) But then again, everyday will be a record really. I've finally edited up to page thirty six, which is where I left off before I had to restart, so now it's all good and that's my report for the day.
I've also realized something. If I keep this Daily Success thing up everyday for years, what number of days will I be at in ten years from now? A lot :)

Daily Success 4

So I didn't edit nearly as many pages as I wanted to. Tonight was a busy night (senior awards night at my high school), but I did finish four more pages. I guess my mind's been a bit off my work today. I didn't get my name called for the awards I was supposed to get because my name didn't get onto the list somehow. Basically I was forgotten about until I went up to my school counselor and explained I wasn't called. It got sorted out and I finally did get called and had a spot light of my own you could say at the end which made up for it. Turns out I wasn't the only one, a girl I know also didn't get her name called for one of the awards too. And so yes, that's my story of the day :) So, here's the lesson. If something doesn't go your way, do something about it! Get it fixed! :)

Daily Success Three

Alright, alright. So I've started to reedit again. I got up to page 22 a lot more quickly this time because I just went through it yesterday so it was easy. I'm feeling like I need to take a break, but I think that tomorrow I'll surpass page thirty five which will be good, and that's a success! :)

I just got screwed over!

Seriously guys, I just got screwed over. I had gone over and done 35 pages of editing for my second book, last night at like two in the morning right? And well, I like to save everything onto these Flash drives of mine because I'm constantly switching computers to write. Well, I go plug in my flash drive, and low and behold, it won't open for me and it says there is an error. This same thing happens on my other two backups too! So crap, I thought I lost it all because I couldn't open anything. Thankfully though, just last night I did save everything onto my computer so at least I can pull up on that. Unfortunately though, all the little changes and rewrites for those 35 pages were on the flash drive and I hadn't saved that most updated one onto the computer. So I've got to start again.
I guess it could have been much worse. I'm glad I didn't get through like, 200 pages and have this happen. Next time I'll be wise and learn from this mistake!

Daily Success 2

I am happy to report I've stuck to my plan for two days now. I know, only two days, I shouldn't get too ahead of myself, but it's progress. I looked over my book 2 and now I'm at page 35. I'm actually writing this post at 2 a.m. in the morning, but this is meant for yesterdays, not today, so some other time today I'll edit some more and post again. Until then, I should probably go to bed. :) After all, a lot of my crazy story ideas come from my dreams.
Also, I think I might also start doing a word of the week sort of thing. It'll probably end up benefiting me more as a writer then anyone reading this blog, but I can't wait to see what words I dig up. Maybe if I get a ton of words it'll turn into a daily thing as well. Until then, have a nice day. :)

Daily Success 1

I am happy to report today was a success (to a degree anyways). I completed looking over fifteen pages of book two, which is pretty awesome for me, because progress is still progress none the less, so go me. :) Tomorrow I hope to do even more.

I've been in a bit of a slump lately. It's defiantly put me off making any posts or let alone getting around to my next book. But I've decided  No More. I'm making a consecutive decision to get over my slump and just proceed forward. Every day that slips away isn't one that I can ever get back. So, some new goals. I'm going to try and post everyday about how my writing is coming, like how much word count I've gotten done for the day, or editing, or thought process, or if there's something in real life that ironically has something to do with my books, I'll give it a mention.
Also, something to note. I'm looking over my second book today since I've finished it already. I think I'll release it soon because why just let it sit around? Last thing I guess I should admit. My books aren't perfect. They're something I like to do and I try to do my best to make them good and perfect, but there will be mistakes. I don't have an editor (and I can't afford one either) but I like my stories and again I will try my best to make them an enjoyable read for others. I've got so many ideas for books I can't just not write them because I know there will be a few mistakes here and there, so for a 2.99 priced book I think it's a pretty good deal. And anyways, I've got to get back to looking over my book....have a nice day.... :)