Random Update

Hey all,

 When I write, I listen to music that fit the scenes I'm working on. When I'm working on dark and angry scenes I mainly listen to Three Days Grace and Theory of a Deadman. Listen to their songs over and over while planning murder, corruption, and evil deeds. After a while you start to feel like a high functioning sociopath.

I told this to my friend and she said. "You put the Hot in psychotic." She's really nice to me. If you feel like your going crazy it's nice to know you look good while doing it. Like Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad! She most defiantly is a hot mess.

Here is what I'm listening to that fits my book and my psyche as I write.






That is my random update.
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Drafting Cycles

Hey there,

Recently I read a blog about drafting cycles. A way to write more than one book at a time. The point is, is to maximize your time and get more books done. When drafting it is imperative to take breaks from your manuscript to gain clarity. This technique is to use that down for another book. It goes like this.

Project 1- Draft #1
Project 2- Draft #1
Project 1- Draft #2
Project 2- Draft #2
So on and so on.

I recently started doing this. Before, I was being naughty and not writing in between editing round. I started a lot of bad habits when I started writing my first book. I've been reading blogs and trying to break my bad habits to become a better writer. I believe this is one will help me considerably and it has. I once read that your imagination is a muscle you have to use it every day. I have been a good girl and have been working every day. Whether it's editing, logging the edits in my computer, building my story, creating a plot line, and writing.

I finished the latest round of editing. (Hopefully the second too last!) The next day I started work on the next book on the series. I won't be following the plan above perfectly because, I am on a deadline and I am going to meet it even if it kills me.

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Halfway Through

  Dia duit (hello in Gaelic),

I'm half way through draft # who knows. This round of edits has been insane! It makes all my other drafts look like cake walks. The time I spent way from my novel did me a lot of good. When I got back to it and started reading I tore into it, there has been no mercy. Before, if I read something, something that I wasn't completely happy with but it was adequate I left it. That is not happening this time. This novel is going to be the absolute best that it can possibly be. Plus, I really only want there to be one more draft. I'm tired and I want it done.

I love writing and editing with either a TV show, movie, or music playing. I recently finished this TV show on Netflix and I loved it. I wanted to listen to music while I continued to edit though. I just didn't know what I wanted to listen to. Correction I knew I just didn't know what it was called or where to find it. So I went on to Pandora just hoping maybe I could figure it out. There is was on my recommendations. Hans Zimmer (composer) radio. It is perfection.

I'm done going through my book. Let me tell you if I had used a red pen it would've looked like it was hemorrhaging. Now comes the kind of easy but monotone point making all the changes onto my computer. So fun... but hey after that I get to work on developing the next book in the series for a week or two. Then comes the last draft (fingers crossed) where the book gets polished and gorgeous.

It is time to begin updating my computer. Let the games begin!

Sincerely,

Taylor

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Nearing the End

Hi again,

After the conclusion of The Waiting Game it is now the start of a new cycle. It is now time to compile all the notes I requested. I will print out my Master Copy. I read all the remarks from the reviewed copies and note them into my Master Copy. Laying out the collection of marked reviews, my MC, a dictionary, and my brand new competent thesaurus (ekk!!!) onto my work space (aka bed). Let the games begin!

I have been waiting for this for weeks but now that I can actually start working on it. I'm terrified, nervous, and vaguely nauseous, I plan for this to be my second to last round of editing. That means soon I will have a finished polished manuscript ready to be sent out to literary agents. That however is a whole other can of worms that I'm excited for but frankly I will probably hurl when I get there. This round I plan on doing the majority of changes also changing the story line so it both fits and sounds better. Hopefully I have enough caffeinated tea in the house to carry me through all the changes. Sometimes in my last rounds of edits I had a nice long list of things to fix but half way through I would get frustrated and stop then take a week and start another round. Times like this is when you need to take breaks. Go for a walk, take a hot bath or shower, eat something that's actually healthy. Point is you have to ration out your endurance. Marathon runners usually use a nine-minute jog one-minute walk to conserve energy and take a break while running twenty-six miles.

With my goals set and tea brewing I say Au Revoir

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