Category Archive: The Novel

Playful Wordplay

Hello Friends. Here is another re-post while I continue to redraft the manuscript. Enjoy! — Paula Cough, craving candy clear Don’t doodle, dare dear Seeing seesaw saving soul-full Hasty help, humbly hopeful Balanced… Continue reading

Unspoken Speaking

Hello Friends. As I have reported recently (Novel Update #18), I am deeply entrenched in my revisions for Draft #3 of my manuscript. So I thought it might be nice to fill The… Continue reading

Novel Update #17

Well the annual Writers Festival is nearly upon me and with it, a new perspective. A year ago, I met my Editor, a published writer herself, at the festival. I remember the nerves,… Continue reading

Dreaming undone

“Sometimes I look back and think my whole adult life has been underlined with a feeling of waiting – waiting for something to happen, waiting for circumstances to change…to infuse me from the… Continue reading

In the Wrong Zone

Well I’m in the zone. Not the writing zone (or editing zone where I should be) but the reading zone. I’m doing my annual prep for the upcoming WritersFestival (Confessions of a proud… Continue reading

Novel Update #16

So here we are not so far into summer yet and I am still slugging away at the Manuscript for Fallout. I remain engulfed in character trajectories as mentioned earlier in Novel Update… Continue reading

Novel Update #15: 777 Writing Challenge

Yesterday, I was surprised to see that I had been nominated to participate in an interesting writing challenge. My dear blogger friend Susan Lattwein of Putting in a Good Word… selected me to… Continue reading

Novel Update #14: Trajectory

tra•jec•to•ry (trəˈjekt(ə)rē/) noun “The path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces.” (Google) Synonyms: course, path route, track, line, orbit. Character Trajectory: Looking to the… Continue reading

Novel Update #13: Just Like George Lucas

Can you name that bald man in the film The Empire Strikes Back who has a computer device attached to his head? It’s Lobot, assistant to Lando Calrissian. And I bet you didn’t… Continue reading

Novel Update #12: Character Prompts

One of the best things there is about being a Writer is the chance to create New Characters. We fashion them from our imagination and breathe life into their souls with our words.… Continue reading