I’ve decided that today will be the day I start working on my new novel. The idea’s been there for quite a while, and I’ve been letting the characters percolate in my head for the past few weeks. They’re nearly ready to come out, I suppose, but I’ve been working so long on The Scent of Rain that I don’t quite remember how to begin to extricate them.

I think it normally involves a pot of coffee and a pen. Onward.

Tags: coffee, creativity, first draft, novel

Yesterday I wrote the words “the end.” It’s amazing what isolation in Northern Idaho can do to one’s writing productivity.

I’m spending the day working on my list of possible agents, and turning my attentions to the travel writing that I’ve been ignoring in my push to finish my novel. Give it some time, then go back for revision….

Tags: agent search, first draft, novel