Writing Wednesday: Wet Times

Rain, rain, rain. It’s been doing that the last several days. Supposed to for the rest of the week, too. Better than the heat, I suppose. I’ve been bouncing between projects this week. Sometimes I just can’t settle on one thing. During those times, it works better for me to just work on one thing for a short time(10 minutes usually) then switch to something else. That works better for me than trying to force my way through something when my brain just isn’t working the way I want it to. And yesterday, I got through most of my goals. I just have Nowhere to Run, Jonas & Isaac, and By the Gun to finish with.

This morning I worked on those first two. Today I’m sharing from Nowhere to Run again for WiPPet Wednesday. This happens a couple weeks after what I shared last week.

James just glanced over his shoulder then went back to handcuffing the man’s hands.” Glad to see you could make it to the party, partner.”
Tracy relaxed as she realized he didn’t mean James harm. “You know me. I can always do with an exciting party. What do we have here?”
“This man,” James said, acid dripping from his voice with that word, “was attempting to assault Ms. Blackstone. She defended herself with her keys. I’m taking him in.”
The other officer’s gaze flicked to her keys, still sticking out between her fingers, then back up to her. He gave her a nod. “Good job. Ms. Blackstone, was it?”
She nodded. “Tracy. I work in the bar. I closed up and was just heading…home.”
James jerked his head toward her. “Alone?”
“Yes, I tend to go home alone.”
“I meant closing up,” he growled. “Why would Trish have you close up all on your own.”
“I guess because she trusts me.”
“You know that isn’t what I mean. It could be dangerous. Obviously.”
James’ partner hissed out a breath. “Damn, Rudler. I’m not even attracted to women, and I know better than to say something like that.”
Tracy glanced up at him and caught his wink before he moved over and took the cuffed man from James. “I’ll take him to the waiting carriage while you remove that foot from your mouth.”
“You’re weird, Hellerman,” James said.

So, will James pull his foot out of his mouth? Wyatt just kind of popped up in this story. I don’t think he plans to go away any time soon. He has got a scene that was lagging moving again. And what nearly happened before this is a very hot button issue for James.

Color Code:

Goal Met

Progress Made

Set Aside

Not Done

Plotting: 

• Primary: Heart to Heart – finish Story Toolkit
  • This Week: Locations
• Secondary: Heart to Heart – Outline Act 1, List rest of scenes
• Tertiary: Nowhere to Run – Outline Act 2
• Stretch: Neil & Lin(Rileys #2) – Brainstorm

Writing:

• Primary: Nowhere to Run – Draft through Chapter 14/~25000 words – 18696/25000 words
  • This Week: 6 scenes – Started 3/6 scenes
• Secondary: Side Projects – 5000 words – 4569/5000 words
  • This Week:
    • Arresting Callum – Read through, edit, & proofread
    • Hawk – 225 words – 372/225 words
    • Jacob & Matthew – 225 words – 240/225 words
• Tertiary: Jonas & Isaac – 15 pages – 13.25/15 pages
  • This Week: 3.5 pages – 2.42/3.5 pages
• Stretch: By the Gun – 4 Chapters – 3/4 chapters
  • This Week: Chapter 4 – Started 1/3 scenes

Editing:

• Primary: Short Story Collection
  • This Week: Goin’ Down – rewrite final scene(which will no longer be the final scene in the story).
• Secondary: Stained Blood – Beta Edits(as I get chapters back)
• Tertiary: Flames of Renewal – Proofread(once I get it back from proofreader)
• Stretch: Law of Choice – CP edits(if I get it back this month)

Publish:

• Flames of Renewal

Reading:

• Read: 20 books – 26/20 books
  • Playing with Fire(Avery Cockburn) – Started this Saturday afternoon. Finished it Monday afternoon.
  • All for You(Laura Florand) – Started this Monday night. At 63%
• Listen: 5 books – 14/5
  • Still the One(Jill Shalvis) – Started this Friday morning. Finished it Monday evening.
  • All I Want(Jill Shalvis) – Started this Monday evening. Finished it Tuesday evening.
  • The Hate U Give(Angie Thomas) – Started this Wednesday morning. On Chapter 5/26

Social Media:

• Post 5 Regular Blog Posts – 15/21 posts
  • This Week:
    • Writing Wednesday
    • Fiction Friday
    • Stream of Consciousness Saturday
    • Weekend Writing Warriors
    • Sunday Summary
• Post to Patreon 3 times – 2/3

Writing Wednesday: A Little Slower

I’m not quite as far ahead this week as I was last week. But, I’m still making progress. We had a busy weekend, and the kids have had vacation bible school this week. Mother in law picks them up and takes them in, husband brings them home. Which gives me a few hours in the evening of having the house all to myself.

Not much else going on this week. Though it seems we might finally be lice free. Can I do a happy dance now? Cautiously optimistic right now, since yesterday is the first day I found none when combing through the girl’s hair. For about a week before that, I’d been finding about 2 each day. They just didn’t seem to want to give it up. But, hopefully now they’re gone.

I’m still working on Nowhere to Run this week, so you actually get something from that this week for WiPPet Wednesday. This is just after James and Tracy meet for the first time. James’ brother, and a couple others are taking him out for his 21st birthday. They’ve just ordered him his first drinks. I have 9 paragraphs(1+8 for the day)

James stared at the waitress who had just turned and gone back to the bar with the orders. He wasn’t even sure what the guys had ordered him to drink. He didn’t really care, either. He thought he might already be intoxicated.
What had just happened there?
His brother laughing drew him out of his thoughts. “What’s so funny?” he asked.
“You,” Todd said, still chuckling. “You look like you’ve been pole-axed.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Todd put his arm aver James’ shoulders. “Don’t worry. It’s natural. I’m pretty sure I felt the same when I first saw Jade. My god, was she lovely? And so often spitting fire at me.”
“She still seems to do that,” James said, shrugging his brother’s arm away as he saw Tracy heading back their way with a tray of drinks. “Stop being an idiot. This is nothing like that.”
Todd snorted, but James ignored him, keeping his gaze on the waitress. “Yeah, no,” Todd said. “Not a thing like that. Not at all.”
Even James could hear the sarcasm in his voice.

Already in denial, James? How long are you going to be able to keep that up? 😉

Color Code:

Goal Met

Progress Made

Set Aside

Not Done

Plotting: 

• Primary: Heart to Heart – finish Story Toolkit
  • This Week: Event Brainstorm 1 & 2
• Secondary: Heart to Heart – Outline Act 1, List rest of scenes
• Tertiary: Nowhere to Run – Outline Act 2
  • This Week: Outline – 20/20 scenes outlined
• Stretch: Neil & Lin(Rileys #2) – Brainstorm

Writing:

• Primary: Nowhere to Run – Draft through Chapter 14/~25000 words – 15054/25000 words
  • This Week: Write 6 scenes – Finished scene 4/6
• Secondary: Side Projects – 5000 words – 3329/5000 words
  • This Week:
    • Arresting Callum – 275 words – 0/275 words
    • Hawk – 250 words – 0/250 words
    • Jacob & Matthew – 250 words – 0/250 words
• Tertiary: Jonas & Isaac – 15 pages – 7.25/15 pages
  • This Week: 3.5 pages – 0/3.5 pages
• Stretch: By the Gun – 4 Chapters – 2/4 chapters
  • This Week: Chapter 3– 0/3 scenes

Editing:

• Primary: Short Story Collection
  • This Week: Bree & Jenny – 1 scene –
• Secondary: Stained Blood – Beta Edits(as I get chapters back)
• Tertiary: Flames of Renewal – Proofread(once I get it back from proofreader)
• Stretch: Law of Choice – CP edits(if I get it back this month)

Publish:

• Flames of Renewal

Reading:

• Read: 20 books – 19/20 books
  • Country Heaven(Ava Miles) – Started this Sunday morning. Finished it Sunday evening.
  • Two by Two(Debbie McGowan) – Started this Sunday evening. At 79%
• Listen: 5 books – 10/5
  • Rescue My Heart(Jill Shalvis) – Started this Monday morning. Finished it Monday night.
  • Rumor Has It(Jill Shalvis) – Started this Tuesday morning. On Chapter 26/28

Social Media:

• Post 5 Regular Blog Posts – 11/21 posts
  • This Week:
    • Writing Wednesday
    • Fiction Friday
    • Stream of Consciousness Saturday
    • Weekend Writing Warriors
    • Sunday Summary
• Post to Patreon 3 times – 1/3
  • This Week: Coming Soon