Marie Alice Writes & Reads

Diary of a writing project. Day 39: the first act key points

This week word count goal: 32 500 words
Word count goal so far: 22 442 words

And suddenly, I had to remind myself I was also writing a Romance. Sort of. This book is walking on many genres lines.
While I find it really fun to play around with the rules within the genres, I still need to focus on plot points.

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Writing a novel: Bestsellers

Nope, not a post on how to write bestsellers!

That post is about:

trying to define what is a bestseller, and
what is the difference between a bestseller and a novel that sells well?

I hope it can help clarify the idea and give a little positive boost to the writers who needs it (including your’s truly).

Fair warning, I’m going a bit academic on this particular topic, which I studied in university (there’s no college in my francophone bubble; we go from elementary school, to high school, to Cegep, to University and to being broke for twenty years).

So, get comfy !

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Diary of a new writing project. Day 37-38: Shifting writing routine

It is a lovely office.

And these days, I can’t sit there.

This week’s word count goal: 32 500 words
Day 37: 21 303 words
Day 38: 22 175 words

Day 37: writing before dawn

My dear laptop friend is actually a borrowed one.

It belongs to my hubby-to-be. He doesn’t need it often, except when he does. And when he does, I have to use the old noisy PC stuck in a corner of his not-so-big office.

So, I woke up early (I am use to it, kiddo is very early bird) and wrote a bunch.

I was happy with the results and was looking forward to the evening writing session.
After putting the kiddo to bed, I should have taken my bottom back in that office and finish what I worked on earlier.

Oh dear how that did not happen!

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